World Health Worker Week: Investing in competency-based education for UHC

30 March, 2022

The theme of World Health Worker Week 2022 is Build the Health Workforce Back Better. Progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) requires strong health systems and health workers who are educated and empowered to provide the health services that meet population health needs. More details on this important health care information-related week, and an associated webinar on 4 April 2022 to mark the launch of the Global Competency and Outcomes Framework towards UHC here: https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/04/04/default-calendar/...

We will be supporting via HIFA social channels, [*see note below]

Regards

Jules

HIFA profile: Julie Storr has over a decade of experience working for WHO on the development, implementation and evaluation of global improvement programmes in the field of patient safety, quality and infection prevention and control, with a focus on behaviour change. Her current work spans two WHO units – quality Universal Health Coverage and Global Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). Her technical and leadership expertise was called on to support WHO’s Ebola response and recovery efforts in 2014/15, with a focus on national IPC policy development in Sierra Leone. She led on the development of the recently published evidence based WHO Guidelines on the Core Components of Infection Prevention and Control Programmes at the National and Acute Health Care Facility Level. She was previously President of the Infection Prevention Society of the UK and Ireland, Assistant Director at the English National Patient Safety Agency and Director of the seminal cleanyourhands campaign. Julie has authored a book (Perspectives and Perceptions of IPC – highly commended at the 2016 BMA Medical Book Awards), published widely in the academic literature and is peer reviewer of a range of academic journals including Implementation Science, and on the international advisory board of the Journal of Infection Prevention. She is currently studying for a doctorate in public health (health care leadership and management) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. @hifa_org

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[*Note from HIFA moderator: Here are the HIFA social media channels. We are looking for volunteers to help us. Please contact me if you can help: neil@hifa.org

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