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New Details on the June 2009 Fogarty Research Training Workshop
The Global Center held its June 2009 Fogarty Research Training Workshop on June 15-17, 2009, in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. Details about the teams involved, presentations, and photos are now available on its Events page.
[Back To Top]World Health Organization Designates GCHEPR as Collaborating Center
The Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research (GCHEPR) has embarked on a new research and networking partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO).
GCHEPR was designated in March as a WHO Collaborating Center for Health Workforce Economics Research. It will work to increase the amount and quality of economics research on workforce-based solutions to health care access and quality challenges in developing nations.
Plans are under way for GCHEPR to begin research on mental health workforce issues. Previous collaborations between GCHEPR Director Richard Scheffler, Ph.D., and Mario R. Dal Poz, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., Coordinator , Information & Governance, Department of Human Resources for Health with WHO, include a forthcoming article in Health Affairs on health workforce capacity challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, and a 2008 article in the WHO Bulletin on forecasting global shortages of physicians.
GCHEPR joins a network of 900 other WHO centers in 99 nations, which provide research, training and technical expertise in support of WHO programs. GHCEPR got a four-year designation as a collaborating center.
WHO collaborating centers form part of an inter-institutional collaborative network in support of WHO programs at the country, inter-country, regional, interregional and global levels, as appropriate. Collaborating centers also participate in the strengthening of countries' resources–information, services, research and training–in support of national health development.
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
[Back To Top]Global Center Director to Co-Edit World Bank Book on Human Resources for Health Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa
Richard M. Scheffler, Ph.D., Director of the Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research (GCHEPR), will be co-editor of a book on human resources for health (HRH) issues in sub-Saharan Africa. He will co-edit the book with Agnes Soucat, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D, Advisor, Health Nutrition Population for Africa, Human Development, for the World Bank.
The book will describe the HRH situation from a labor market perspective, and will include workforce supply, demand, distribution, entry, training, attrition, migration, performance and productivity. The book is intended for policy makers, government officials, and post-secondary school professors and students.
Brent Fulton, a Global Center health researcher, and Christine Brown Mahoney, a Global Center National Institute of Mental Health Scholar, will each contribute chapters to the book. Stephen Robitaille, the center's senior editor, will assist in editing duties.
The book, to be published by the World Bank, is scheduled for release in early 2010.
[Back To Top]New Details on the January 2009 Fogarty Research Training Workshop
The Global Center held its January 2009 Fogarty Research Training Workshop on January 5-7, 2009, at the Berkeley City Club. Details about the teams involved, presentations, and photos are now available on its Events page.
[Back To Top]Regents' Lecturer Mario Dal Poz Speaks on the Global Health Workforce
Mario R. Dal Poz, MD, PhD, MSc, Coordinator for Human Resources for Health at the World Health Organization, addressed a packed room at UC Berkeley's International House on Thursday, October 16th for his Regency Lecture, entitled, "Global Response to the Health Workforce Crisis." Dr. Dal Poz candidly discussed projected critical shortages of doctors, nurses and midwives in many regions of the world, as well as the migration of health professionals from sub-Saharan Africa to more developed nations. He then outlined an agenda for action, in which WHO, a leading international health agency, and other partners are working to address the crisis and develop HRH improvements at the global, regional and country level. Discussants included School of Public Health Dean, Stephen Shortell; Director of the Global Center, Richard Scheffler; and UCSF Emeritus Professor, Thomas Hall.
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New Details on the 2008 Social Capital Workshop
The Social Capital Global Network 2008 meeting will take place at IRDES, 10 rue Vauvenargues, 75018 Paris, France, on October 10th-11th, 2008.
The 2008 workshop is co-organized by the Global Center, IRDES and OECD/CERI.
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New Publications Now Available
The GCHEPR is proud to announce the release of three publications. Full details can be found on their respective abstract pages:
- Forecasting the Global Shortages of Physicians: An Economic– and Needs–based Approach
- Lasting Global Shortages and Surpluses of Physicians: New Estimates
- Private Health Insurance in Development: Friend or Foe?
Fogarty Research Training Details Are Posted
The 2008 Fogarty Research Training Workshop took place from June 15-18 in Varna, Bulgaria. Information about the agenda, participants, and photos can be viewed on the workshop's Events page.
[Back To Top]Director Richard Scheffler attends the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala
GCHEPR Director Richard Scheffler and Graduate Student Ellen Smith attended the WHO Workforce Alliance Forum in Kampala, Uganda March 3-5, 2008. The Forum brought together leaders in world health to address such critical issues as Financing, Management, Migration and Retention, Education and Training, Leadership, and Partnerships. Read more about the Forum. 
Scheffler with Stephen Mallinga, Minister of Health, Uganda and Alex Preker, Lead Economist, Health, Nutrition, and Population, AFTH2 Africa Region, The World Bank
GCHEPR announces the 2008 Berkeley Conference on the Global Health Workforce
The 2008 Berkeley Conference on the Global Health Workforce: From Evidence and Research to Public and Health Care Industry Policy will take place from April 4 - 5, 2008 at the Berkeley City Club in Berkeley, CA. You can now view the program agenda.
This is a closed event. Attendance requests are no longer accepted. Please look forward to the conference proceedings in May. You may also contact Amy Nuttbrock, Program Coordinator, with any questions about conference logistics.
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