Berkeley Global Health Workforce Conference:
From Evidence-Based Research to Policy

Berkeley City Club
April 4-5, 2008

Media - April 4 (Panels 1-3)

Panel Session #1: Global Health Workforce Supply-Demand Balance

Chair:

Haile T. Debas, MD Director, Global Health Sciences
Maurice Galante Distinguished Professor of Surgery
University of California, San Francisco Haile Debas

Discussant

Neeru Gupta, PhD Demographer-Statistician, Department of Human Resources For Health
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland Neeru Gupta

Full Session MOV

  • "Estimating Health Worker Shortages: What Can Africa Afford and What Else Can Be Done?" Richard M. Scheffler, PhD Director, The Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research
    Distinguished Professor of Health Economics & Public Policy
    University of California Berkeley     MOV PPT Richard Scheffler
  • "Spatial Distribution of Health Workforce and Health Care Services: An Inter- and Intra-Country Analysis" Sailabala Debi, PHD, MPhil, MA Economist, Former Director and Professor
    Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research (CMDR)
    Karnataka, India     MOV PPT
  • "Scaling Up Health Education Opportunities and Challenges for Africa" Alexander S. Preker, MD, PhD Lead Economist, Health, Nutrition, and Population AFTH2 Africa Region
    The World Bank
    Washington DC     MOV PPT Alexander Preker
  • "Scaling-Up Interventions to Meet Shortages of Health Workers" Gilles Dussault, PhD Professor and Director, Health Systems Unit
    Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
    Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal     MOV PPT
  • Discussion and Q&A MOV

Panel Session #2: Tools for Monitoring and Projecting Health Workforce Supply and Dynamics

Chair:

Mario Dal Poz, MD, PhD Coordinator, Human Resources for Health
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland Mario Dal Poz

Discussant

Marko Vujicic, PhD Economist, Human Development Network
The World Bank
Washington DC MOV PPT Marko Vujicic

Full Session MOV

  • "Measuring and Monitoring the Health Workforce Using Open Source Tools" Pamela McQuide, PhD, RN Workforce Planning and Policy Advisor, The Capacity Project
    IntraHealth International
    Chapel Hill, North Carolina     MOV PPT
  • "The State of Human Resources for Health in Zambia: Results of the Public Expenditure Tracking and Quality of Service Delivery Survey (PET/QSDS), 2005/2006" Oscar F. Picazo, MA Senior Economist, South Africa Country Office
    The World Bank
    Pretoria, South Africa     MOV PPT
  • "Ensuring Workforce Capacity to Meet Healthcare Demands Equitable in a Public System" Basu Ghosh, PhD Professor, Advisor, Human Resources
    Ministry of Health
    Sultanate of Oman
    Muscat, Oman     MOV PPT
  • "Understanding the Dynamics of the Medical Workforce: The MABEL Longitudinal Survey of Doctors" Anthony Scott, PhD Professor, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
    The University of Melbourne
    Victoria, Australia     MOV PPT
  • "Explaining Health Worker Career Paths" Pieter Serneels, MD The World Bank
    Washington DC     MOV PDF
  • Discussion and Q&A MOV

Panel Session #3: Linkages Between Health Workforce Mix and Health Outcomes

Chair:

Murray N. Ross, PhD Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
Director, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
Oakland, California Murray Ross

Discussant

Brent D. Fulton, PhD Health Services Researcher, The Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research
University of California, Berkeley

Full Session MP3

  • "Do More Health Workers Mean Higher Immunization Coverage? Evidence from Turkey" Andrew D. Mitchell, SM Doctoral Student, Harvard School of Public Health
    Harvard University
    Cambridge, Massachusetts     MP3 PPT
  • "The Workforce and Cost Implications of Substituting Nurses and Pharmacists for Doctors in the Follow-up of Patients with AIDS on Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda" Joseph B. Babigumira, MBChB, MS Graduate Student, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program
    University of Washington
    Seattle, Washington     MP3 PPT
  • "Monitoring Health Workforce Skills Mix and Productivity to Support Decision Making for Health Policy and Planning: Insights from Survey Data in Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries" Neeru Gupta, PhD Demographer-Statistician, Department of Human Resources for Health
    World Health Organization
    Geneva, Switzerland     MP3 PPT
  • "Effects of Health Labour Migration on Low- and Mid-Level Health Personnel for Infectious Disease Control at the Periphery in the Volta Region of Ghana" Caroline Jehu-Appiah, MD, MSc Deputy Director, Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division
    Ghana Health Service
    Accra, Ghana     MP3 PPT

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