Webinar | Strengthening the health workforce of the future: Charting a vision for evidence-based, impactful learning and performance

Governments and donors invest millions every year in efforts to improve health worker performance, relying heavily on classroom-based training and supervision, with modest and varying improvements. Countries that want to integrate newer, more evidence-based and effective approaches often struggle to fit them into their systems. How can we help support the transition to newer, more complex approaches for improving learning and performance among health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)?

Hosted by USAID MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, this webinar will discuss some promising approaches for improving health worker performance in LMICs, with illustrations focused on quality improvement, mentorship, and blended learning. Together, we will explore results from recent studies on approaches to improve health worker learning and performance, highlight examples from countries on how they are translating this research into practice, and foster discussion on how countries can leverage this experience and knowledge to strengthen the health workforce of the future.

Speakers:

Julia Bluestone (Technical Director for Learning and Performance, Jhpiego) will share results from a 2022 global situational analysis
Comfort Okpe (Reproductive Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Senior Technical Advisor, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, Nigeria) will speak to country experience in building quality improvement systems at national and sub-national levels
Eugenia Mensah (Technical Officer, MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery) and Salamatu Abdulai (Technical Advisor at Total Family Health Organization) will speak to country experience in the use of blended learning in Ghana
Dwirani Amelia (Chief of Party, MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery Indonesia) will speak to the use of quality improvement plus mentorship.