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<a name="1"></a><span style="font-family:arial; font-size:13px; color:#000000; font-weight:bold" class="heading">2007 International Health Workforce Conference</span><br><br>
<p align="center"><span style=" font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: Verdana;"><b><a href="http://tr.subscribermail.com/cc.cfm?sendto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehret%2Eorg%2Fhret%2Fpublications%2Fihwm%2Ehtml&tempid=51772b4940bb47c1b09287e96237120b&mailid=a84e72fa29e64d01994987e96237120b">Registration now open!</a></b></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style=" font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; color: #0066ff;"><b>A Call to Action: Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health</b></span><br>
<span style=" font-family: Verdana; color: #0066ff; font-size: x-small;"><b>March 22-23, 2007 |</b> </span><span style=" color: #0066ff;"><b><a href="http://tr.subscribermail.com/cc.cfm?sendto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecicg%2Ech%2Fen%2F&tempid=51772b4940bb47c1b09287e96237120b&mailid=a84e72fa29e64d01994987e96237120b">International Conference Centre</a></b></span><b><span style=" font-family: Verdana; color: #0066ff; font-size: x-small;"> | Geneva, Switzerland</span></b></p>
<p align="left"><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Today there is a worldwide shortage of nearly 4.3 million doctors, nurses, pharmacists, midwives, and other community health workers. "A Call to Action: Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health," will bring together a broad spectrum of health care disciplines and organizations that are both experiencing and affecting to the global shortage of health care workers. With a multidisciplinary focus and convening of global stakeholders, this meeting will stimulate discussion and help identify the action steps that can be taken based on evidence, to build, retain, and sustain a workforce. Focus will be on research, policy and promising practices to address this growing problem.</span></p>
<p><span style=" font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small; color: #000080;"><b>Keynote speakers include:</b></span></p>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Francis Omaswa, The Global Health Workforce Alliance, </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Human Resources for </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Health,</span><a href="http://tr.subscribermail.com/cc.cfm?sendto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehret%2Eorg%2Fhret%2Fpublications%2Fpartnering%2Ehtml&tempid=51772b4940bb47c1b09287e96237120b&mailid=a84e72fa29e64d01994987e96237120b"><span style=" font-size: xx-small;"><img align="right" border="0" src="http://app.subscribermail.com/images/40000785/extcontent/pr40000785_54f942f1b.gif"></span></a><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;"> World Health Organization</span><span style=" font-size: xx-small;"><br>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Mr. David Rossiter, Head of Human Resources, Hong </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Kong Hospital Authority</span><span style=" font-size: xx-small;"><br>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Gerard Vincent, President, International Hospital </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Federation & Director General, French Hospital </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Federation</span></li>
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<p><b><span style=" color: #000080; font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Topics include:</span></b></p>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Ensuring an Adequate Workforce</span><span style=" font-size: xx-small;"><br>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">The Role of Health Care Provider Organizations, Government and Donors in</span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Human </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Resource Development, Management and Retention</span><span style=" font-size: xx-small;"><br>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">The Role of Professional Organizations in Human Resource Development, </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Management and Retention</span><br>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Ethical Practices - A dialogue about the rights of workers to move, the rights of </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">patients to receive care and countries and organizations obligation to develop </span><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">workforce<br>
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<p><b><span style=" color: #000080; font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Who should attend:</span></b></p>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Hospital and human resource executives</span></li>
<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Policymakers/government officials</span></li>
<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Researchers</span></li>
<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">International corporations with a health care interest</span></li>
<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Professional associations</span></li>
<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">National/international government and non-governmental organizations<br>
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<p><b><span style=" color: #000080; font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Participants will have the opportunity to:</span></b></p>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Form between-nation workgroups for promising practices</span><br>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Create a global network to stimulate action based on current knowledge and policymaking</span><br>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Identify priority actions at local community, national and international levels</span><br>
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<li><span style=" font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;">Identify gaps in knowledge and data to develop a priority research agenda addressing global workforce solutions</span></li>
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