Special Event Highlights Evidence on Health Workforce Recruitment, Retention, and Productivity
With the USAID ASSIST Project and the World Bank, CapacityPlus cohosted a knowledge-sharing and dissemination event—Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity—at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on February 18. The three-hour program focused on the latest evidence from country applications of innovations to strengthen health workforce recruitment, retention, and productivity.
Through a combination of panel presentations, interactive roundtable groups, and moderated question-and-answer sessions, participants learned about and discussed various approaches and tools that can be used to develop policies to strengthen recruitment, retention, and productivity and improve access to high-quality family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and other health services.
Watch videos and view presentations from the event
Welcome and opening remarks
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Kate Tulenko of IntraHealth International, director of CapacityPlus; Lois Schaefer, senior technical advisor for human resources for health at USAID; Akiko Maeda, lead health specialist at the World Bank; and M. Rashad Massoud of University Research Co. LLC, director of USAID ASSIST, welcome participants and provide context on the issues of health worker recruitment, retention, and productivity.
Analyzing Markets for Health Workers: Insights from Labor and Health Economics
Related presentation by Edson Araújo, economist at the World Bank
Factors Influencing Health Workers’ Employment Decisions and Interventions to Address Geographic Imbalances in Health Workforce Distribution
Related presentation by Wanda Jaskiewicz of IntraHealth International, senior team leader for global leadership and workforce effectiveness for CapacityPlus
Improving Efficiency, Productivity, and Performance with the Workforce You Have, Not the One You Wish You Had
Related presentation by Edward Broughton of University Research Co. LLC, director of research and evaluation for USAID ASSIST
Moderated question-and-answer session
Roundtable discussions
The event also featured two rounds of concurrent interactive roundtable discussions to provide participants with a deeper understanding of and hands-on orientation to innovative tools and approaches in the areas of recruitment, retention, and productivity.
Round 1
- Moving Forward with the Health Labor Market Agenda (Edson Araújo, The World Bank)
- Using the WHO Recommendations for Increasing Access to Health Workers in Rural Areas (Wanda Jaskiewicz, CapacityPlus)
- Application of Discrete Choice Experiments to Identify Health Workers' Employment Preferences (Akiko Maeda, The World Bank)
- Determining the Costs of Retention Strategies with iHRIS Retain Software (Rachel Deussom, CapacityPlus)
- Whose Job Is It? Educational Institutions and Their Responsibility for Retention of the Health Workers They Trained (Heather Ross, CapacityPlus)
Round 2
- Methods and Interventions to Improve Efficiency, Productivity, and Performance with the Workforce You Have, Not the One You Wish You Had (Edward Broughton and Allison Annette Foster, USAID ASSIST) (see a related presentation, The Tanzania Health Worker Engagement Study: Exploring the Relationship between Engagement and Performance)
- Managing Dual Job Holding among Health Workers (Edson Araújo, The World Bank)
- Beta-Testing the Online Health Worker Productivity Analysis and Improvement Toolkit (Wanda Jaskiewicz and Rachel Deussom, CapacityPlus)
- Tools, Evidence, and Research Gaps for More Effective Community Health Worker Performance and Productivity (Diana Frymus, USAID, and Sarah Smith Lunsford, USAID ASSIST)
- Examining Potential for Quality Improvement in the Three Gaps (Kenneth Leonard, University of Maryland)
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Photo by Carol Bales (roundtable participants)
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