The New Medical “Missionaries” — Grooming the Next Generation of Global Health Workers

2006 ◽  
Vol 354 (17) ◽  
pp. 1771-1773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Panosian ◽  
Thomas J. Coates
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Medical Missionaries

scholarly journals Wakley–Wu Lien Teh Prize Essay 2020: passing the baton to the next generation of health workers

The Lancet ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Lau ◽  
Helena Hui Wang ◽  
Jie Qiao ◽  
Baoguo Jiang ◽  
Richard Horton
Keyword(s):  
Health Workers ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Prize Essay

Conceptualising a New Knowledge Management Logic Model for Global Health: A Case-Study Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saori Ohkubo ◽  
Sarah V. Harlan ◽  
Naheed Ahmed ◽  
Ruwaida M. Salem
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Logic Model ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Health Field

Over the past few decades, knowledge management (KM) has become well-established in many fields, particularly in business. Several KM models have been at the forefront of promoting KM in businesses and organisations. However, the applicability of these traditional KM models to the global health field is limited by their focus on KM processes and activities with few linkages to intended outcomes. This paper presents the new Knowledge Management for Global Health (KM4GH) Logic Model, a practical tool that helps global health professionals plan ways in which resources and specific KM activities can work together to achieve desired health program outcomes. We test the validity of this model through three case studies of global and field-level health initiatives: an SMS-based mobile phone network among community health workers (CHWs) and their supervisors in Malawi, a global electronic Toolkits platform that provides health professionals access to health information resources, and a netbook-based eHealth pilot among CHWs and their clients in Bangladesh. The case studies demonstrate the flexibility of the KM4GH Logic Model in designing various KM activities while defining a common set of metrics to measure their outcomes, providing global health organisations with a tool to select the most appropriate KM activities to meet specific knowledge needs of an audience. The three levels of outcomes depicted in the model, which are grounded in behavioural theory, show the progression in the behaviour change process, or in this case, the knowledge use process, from raising awareness of and using the new knowledge to contributing to better health systems and behaviours of the public, and ultimately to improving the health status of communities and individuals. The KM4GH Logic Model makes a unique contribution to the global health field by helping health professionals plan KM activities with the end goal in mind.

scholarly journals Training the next generation of global health experts: experiences and recommendations from Pacific Rim universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mellissa Withers ◽  
David Press ◽  
Heather Wipfli ◽  
Judith McCool ◽  
Chang-Chuan Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Health Experts

scholarly journals Bringing relational comparison into development studies: Global health volunteers’ experiences of Sierra Leone

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Brooks ◽  
Clare Herrick
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Developed Nations

Global health volunteering is premised on a comparative understanding of development: hospitals in developing countries are ‘behind’ modern institutions in developed nations, and sharing volunteers’ skills will enable the latter to ‘catch-up’. We argue for a ‘relational comparison’ in development studies, which draws upon a geographical conception of inequality premised on understanding places in relation to one another rather than reifying differences between countries. We place a particular hospital within a dialectical totality of combined and uneven development. Health workers’ experiences of volunteering in Sierra Leone demonstrate that local problems, including staff shortages and corruption, are enveloped within global processes.

scholarly journals The Afya Bora Fellowship in Global Health Leadership: dual mentorship to strengthen the next generation of African health leaders

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
C. Farquhar ◽  
L.P. Newman ◽  
Y. Mashalla ◽  
G. O'Malley ◽  
E. Seloilwe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Health Leadership ◽  
African Health

scholarly journals In the shadowlands of global health: Observations from health workers in Kenya

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 927-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth J. Prince ◽  
Phelgona Otieno
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Health Workers

scholarly journals Transdisciplinary action for global health: the cases of vaccine hesitancy and Ebola epidemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
T I Agartan ◽  
D Atobra
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Global Health Education ◽  
Pubmed Database ◽  
Health Threats

Abstract Background The storm of increasing global disease burden and health threats calls for the combined utilisation of all disciplines to promote global health. In practice, natural sciences and clinical perspectives still dominate global health discussions and proposed solutions, with little room for effective collaborations with social sciences and humanities. The aim is to examine the extent of multidisciplinary collaborations in global health, identify and analyse the types of actors and disciplinary approaches employed, and the modes or patterns of multidisciplinarity. Vaccine hesitancy and refusal, and the Ebola epidemic of 2014-16 serve our analysis as two case studies of recent global health threats, that brought various global health actors together in diverse projects: Methods A literature review was conducted using the PubMed database and Google Scholar over a period of five years (2014-2019). Results The findings suggest that different social science and humanities disciplines were involved in solving global health threats at different stages and in various ways. We identified two types of collaboration: 1) Reactive collaborations where a team of health experts in the natural sciences turn to social sciences only because of challenges in implementing the project. 2) Interactive collaborations, that aim to involve social sciences in the early stages of research, development, and implementation of programs to understand and work effectively within the cultural and social contexts of communities affected by health emergencies. This type of interaction pays more attention to affected populations and the health workers, who are responsible for implementing the SDGs and global health interventions. Conclusions Disciplinary hierarchies are huge barriers to solving global challenges. A transdisciplinary framework has most potential to respond effectively to global health threats and action is needed to implement this approach in global health education.

Global health's durable dreams: ethnography, ‘community health workers’ and health without health infrastructure

Africa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Ramah McKay
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Workers ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Global Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Officials

AbstractTracing the persistence of community health workers (CHWs) as a key category in both global health policy and anthropological representation, this article asks how enduring scholarly investments in CHWs can reveal changing political stakes for both health work and ethnographic research. Amid renewed calls for a focus on health systems and universal health coverage, the article suggests that the durability of attention to CHWs is instructive. It simultaneously points to the imbrication of health with political and social relations and clinical and technological infrastructures as well as to how ethnographic investments in health systems can sometimes obscure the ambivalent politics of health. Drawing on fieldwork with CHWs, NGO staff and public health officials, and on public health literature on CHWs, it argues for greater attention to the political ambivalence of health labour. It suggests that the experiences of health workers themselves can serve as analytical examples in this regard, pointing to analyses that begin not with normative notions of health systems or the conceptual boundaries of global health ‘projects’ but with a focus on the contested relations through which health labour is realized over time. Such attention can also indicate possibilities for health beyond dreams of projects, clinics or health systems.

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