Posts Tagged ‘health systems’
Re-imagining Technical Assistance for MNCH & Strengthening National Health Systems
Organized by Global Health Council, John Snow Inc., and the global Child Health Task Force Re-imagining Technical Assistance for MNCH & Strengthening National Health Systems June 25, 2020 RSVP Global Health Council in partnership with the Global Child Health Task Force, John Snow Inc., invites you to re-imagine the technical assistance (TA) for maternal, newborn,…
Read MoreThe Complex Truth of Health Tech: Why Greater Ultrasound Availability Doesn’t Always Benefit Patients
This post originally appeared on the NextBillion website. This guest post was written by Catharine Taylor, Vice President of Health Programs at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), along with fellow colleagues Dai Hozumi, Senior Director for Health Technologies and Joann Paradis, Strategic Communications Advisor. MSH is a nonprofit global health organization and Global Health Council member organization. Advances…
Read MoreCommunity Health Workers: A Priority for Universal Health Coverage?
This guest post was written by Colin Gilmartin, Senior Technical Officer at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a nonprofit global health organization and GHC member organization. Gilmartin specializes in health care financing and the planning and costing of community-based services. He can be followed on Twitter, @colingilmartin. MSH’s mission is saving lives and improving the health…
Read MoreUSAID panel emphasizes importance of strong health systems in supporting healthy families
This blog post was written by Alissa Dresie, Global Health Council Intern On January 21, The Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), a USAID program focused on strengthening health systems and ending preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation, hosted Strong Health Systems Support Healthy Families, a half day event. The event looked at how…
Read MoreFrom West Africa to South Korea, No Pause between Outbreaks
This blog was cross-posted from IntraHealth International and written by Allison Annette Foster and Aanjalie Collure As nurses prepare to gather in Seoul, South Korea, later this week for the annual International Council of Nursing’s 2015 Conference, the country is experiencing an alarming outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS Coronavirus. Just last Thursday,…
Read MoreStudy Tour: Combating NCDs with Limited Resources
Last week, GHC Executive Director Christine Sow accompanied US Senate staffers to Uganda and Rwanda on a study tour organized by the Livestrong Foundation and Management Sciences for Health. We will be featuring blogs and pictures from Christine on the tour on the blog – read on to hear about the trip, NCDs, and global…
Read MoreStudy Tour: The Burden of NCDs in Low Resource Settings
Last week, GHC Executive Director Christine Sow accompanied US Senate staffers to Uganda and Rwanda on a study tour organized by the Livestrong Foundation and Management Sciences for Health. We will be featuring blogs and pictures from Christine on the tour for the next four days – read on to hear about the trip, NCDs,…
Read MoreMeasuring the Success of Health Systems Strengthening
This is a guest post, written by Christophe Grundmann, Chief of Party, and Katherine Krasovec, Technical Advisor for Nutrition and Child Health at URC. University Research Co., LLC (URC)* is a global company dedicated to improving the quality of health care, social services, and health education worldwide. The term “health system strengthening” is vague enough to…
Read MoreOn the Rocky Road to Universal Health Coverage
This is a guest post, written by Pape Gaye, President and CEO of Intrahealth International. IntraHealth is a GHC member organization that empowers health workers to better serve communities in need around the world. If you look at the regions of the world that have made the greatest progress in family planning—India and Bangladesh come…
Read MoreIntegration of Health Services Ensures "No Missed Opportunities"
This year’s Roll Back Malaria theme for World Malaria Day (April 25, 2012), Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria, speaks to the importance of maintaining the successes of the last decade while balancing that effort with a continued commitment to move malaria prevention and control to the next level: scaling up country-level programs, controlling the epidemic and eventually eliminating this disease.That’s the call to action, the imperative across the developing world. But on the frontlines, in communities and clinics throughout sub-Saharan Africa, integration of services offers the best chance to ensure that a pregnant woman,a mother of three children,or a child under five receives malaria prevention, treatment and care services whenever she visits a health clinic or accesses services in her community.
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