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DFID's Continuing Professional Development Day on Health Workers: 5 November 2008

Room 3W13, DFID, 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE

Final report

Agenda

The aims of the day were to:

• Review the state of the international response to the global shortage of health workers, particularly in light of G8 and Call to Action commitments, identifying DFID's role in facilitating progress at country, regional and global levels.
• Provide an update on latest evidence / best practice on how to address the global shortage of health workers.

09.30 - 10.00 Arrival and coffee

10.00 - 10.10 Welcome and aims for the day
Peter Colenso, Head of Human Development, DFID
The state of the international response, and update on the UK domestic position

10.10 -10.25 Key Milestones and Commitments on HRH
Dr Neil Squires, Senior Health Adviser, DFID Mozambique

10.25 - 10.40 Perspectives from the Global Health Workforce Alliance
Jim Campbell, Integrare Spain

10.40 - 10.55 EU Programme for Action on HRH
Ondrej Simek, DG Dev, EC

10.55 -11.10 Update on UK domestic position
Dr Sudeep Chand, Public Health Adviser, Department of Health

11.10 - 11.30 Discussion
Chair: Peter Colenso

1130 - 11.50 Morning coffee

Latest evidence/best practice

11. 50 - 12.05 Update on Malawi EHRP
Matt Gordon, Multilateral Policy Adviser, previously DFID Malawi

12.05 - 12.25 Health workforce supply: case studies from Kenya and Zambia
Tim Martineau, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, LSTM

12.25 - 12.40 Research needs and new initiatives in HRH research: An Alliance HPSR perspective
Dr Sara Bennett, Manager, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

12.40 - 1.00 Discussion
Chair: Peter Colenso

1. 00 - 2.00 Lunch

Latest evidence/best practice continued

2.00 - 2.20 Overview of PEPFAR/IHP studies in Mozambique and Kenya
Jim Campbell, Integrare Spain
Dr Neil Squires, Senior Health Adviser, DFID Mozambique
Tony Daly, Health Adviser, DFID Kenya via VC
Joan Holloway, PEPFAR Washington via VC

2.20 - 2.35 Overview of the World Bank HRH Programme Results
Dr Kate Tulenko and Marko Vujicic, World Bank, via VC

2.35 - 2.50 Studying health worker preferences and motivation: an overview of CREHS research
Dr Natasha Palmer, Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2.50 - 3.10 Discussion
Chair: John Worley, Acting Head of Profession for Health DFID

3.10 - 3.30 Coffee

Next steps

3.30 - 4.20 Plenary discussion
Chair: Dr Neil Squires
1. What is DFID’s role in facilitating progress: what do we need to do differently?
2. DFID’s priorities for research in HRH

4.20 - 4.30 Conclusions
John Worley, Acting Head of Profession for Health, DFID