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

Berkeley City Club
April 4-5, 2008

Media - April 5 (Panels 4A&B-6)

Concurrent Panel Session #4A: Health Worker Mobility and Incentives

Chair:

Gilles Dussault, PhD Professor and Director, Health Systems Unit
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Gilles Dussault

Full Session MOV

  • "Human Resources in Health Labor Markets: The Role of Incentives" Agnes Soucat, MD, PhD Lead Economist, Health, Nutrition, and Population AFTHD African Region
    The World Bank
    Washington DC     MOV PPT
  • "Health Workers' Attitudes to Market Incentives and Privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe" Helena Schweiger, PhD Economist, Office of the Chief Economist
    European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
    London, United Kingdom     MOV PDF
  • "Toward a Northern Metric: Tracking Global Citizenship in an Epoch of Health Globalization" Fitzhugh Mullan, MD Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, Department of Health Policy
    The George Washington University
    Washington DC     MOV PPT Fitzhugh Mullan
  • "Health Labor Market Institutions and Incentives in Ethiopia" William Jack, DPhil, MPhil, BSc Department of Economics
    Georgetown University     MOV PPT
  • Discussion and Q&A MOV

Concurrent Panel Session #4B: Health Worker Mobility and Incentives

Chair:

Belgacem Sabri, MD Director Health Systems and Services Development, World Health Organization
Eatern Mediterranean Region Office
Cairo, Egypt Belgacem Sabri

Full Session MP3

  • "How Wage Bill Policies Affect the Evolution of the Health Workforce in the Public Sector" Marko Vujicic, PhD Economist, Human Development Network
    The World Bank
    Washington DC     MP3 PPT
  • "Obligatory Service Requirement and Physician Distribution in Turkey" Burcay Erus, PhD, MA Assitant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
    Bogazici University
    Istanbul, Turkey     MP3 PPT
  • "Immigrant Health Workers in OECD Countries in the Broader Context of Highly Skilled Migration" Jean-Christophe Dumont, PhD OECD Principal Administrator, Directorate of Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs
    Division of Non-member Economies and International Migration
    Paris, France     MP3 PPT
  • Discussion and Q&A MP3

Panel Session #5: Human Resources for Health Policy: Country Perspectives

Introduction

Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, MPH Dean and Professor, School of Public Health
Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor
Health Policy and Management
Professor of Organization Behavior
University of California, Berkeley

Full Session MOV

  • Anthony A. Sandi, MD Manager, Human Resources for Health
    Minister of Health and Sanitation
    Sierra Leone     MOV PPT
  • Francisco Eduardo de Campos, MD Secretary of Human Resources Development for Health
    Brazilian Ministry of Health     MOV PPT
  • Stephen Tomlin, BA Vice President, Program, Policy & Planning
    International Medical Corps     MOV PPT
  • Discussion and Q&A MOV

Panel Session #6: Global Health Workforce Policy Implementation Roundtable

Chair

Sir Richard Feachem, KBE, FREng, DSc(Med), PhD Professor Global Health, University of California, San Francisco
and University of California, Berkeley
Director of the Global Health Group
at the University of California, San Francisco's Global Health Sciences

Co-Chair:

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

Full Session MOV

  • "Scaling Up the Education and Training of Health Workers in Developing Countries" Lord Nigel Crisp, KCB Co-Chair, Scaling Up Education & Training Task Force
    Global Health Workforce Alliance     MOV PPT
  • Roundtable/Q& MOV :
    • Sally Stansfield, MD Executive Secretary, Health Metrics Network
      WHO
    • Kathy Cahill, MPH Deputy Director, Global Health Strategies
      Global Health Program
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    • Karen J. Hofman, MD Director of the Division of International Science Policy, Planning and Evaluation
      Fogarty International Center
    • Lois A. Schaefer, BSN, MPH Senior Technical Advisor, Human Capacity Development and Training
      United States Agency for International Development

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