HRH - Human resources for health
Jan 28, 2020 | News
With new funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ICAP at Columbia University is expanding its successful efforts to improve health systems in Central Asia, Lesotho,...
Jan 17, 2020 | News
ICAP’s newly expanded programming in South Africa will leverage almost a decade of expertise on strengthening health systems in high-HIV burden contexts with emphasis in human resources, service delivery, information systems, and leadership and governance. The...
Jun 27, 2019 | News
In Sierra Leone, house officers (medical interns) are often posted in leadership positions at low-resource health facilities and are expected to make critical management decisions that can impact thousands of patients. However, their education seldom includes...
Sep 14, 2018 | Stories from the Field
As a leader in Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Mary Fullah, RN, MPH, deputy chief nursing and midwifery officer, has difficult challenges to contend with: a severe shortage of health workers, including nurses, and a health system still recovering...
Mar 17, 2015 | News
Through the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative, ICAP and its partners in six sub-Saharan African countries that face critical shortages in human resources for health, have graduated over 6,200 nursing and midwifery students and trained almost 1,600 faculty,...
