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Global Health eLearning Center’s Community Feature Extends the Impact of Online Learning

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:20:12 +0000

In response to feedback from its users, the USAID Global Health eLearning Center (GHeL) and USAID’s partner at the Knowledge for Health project launched a new community feature on the site in February 2014, which gives students the ability to interact online with the course author and with other students in the same course. From August 4–13, 2014, GHeL launched its first facilitated, cohort-based learning study group to enhance students’ understanding of the main concepts in the Gender and Health Systems Strengthening course. The course author, Constance Newman, Senior Team Leader, Gender Equality and Health at IntraHealth International and working on the CapacityPlus project, asked participants to review two sessions of the course and then visit the online learning space to reflect on the discussion questions, ask questions, share experiences related to gender and health system strengthening, and learn from each other about how they have applied or plan to apply what they have learned from the course in their jobs.

Author's name:

Peggy D’Adamo and Terra Fretwell

Publication Date:

December 2014

Your Voice: Frontline Health Workers Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health Progress

Carol Bales — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:45:38 +0000

This post originally appeared on USAID’s FrontLines. Your Voice, a continuing FrontLines feature, offers personal observations from USAID staff and development voices. Chris Thomas is a communications adviser in the Bureau for Global Health.

With her 3-month-old son, John, lethargic, feverish and vomiting, Korto Kinne sought help in the remote Sinje resettlers camp in the northwestern corner of Liberia. Musu Kpakar, a community health worker, administers a rapid finger-stick test to see if malaria parasites are present in John’s blood.

Author's name:

Chris Thomas, guest blogger

Publication Date:

June 2014

Thank a Health Worker—Unsung Heroes of Global Health

Carol Bales — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:29:50 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post.

When was the last time you thanked your health care provider? We often forget how much care, guidance, and support they give, and the sacrifices they make to restore us to good health. Health workers—whether a doctor, nurse, midwife, or physician’s assistant—are an integral part of a well-functioning health system and necessary for the delivery of quality health care not only in the United States, but all around the world. As the world comes together to celebrate World Health Worker Week, we are reminded of the critical role health workers play both in the developed world as well as some of the poorest countries plagued with an unimaginable shortage of health services and limited access to care.

Author's name:

Ariel Pablos-Méndez, guest blogger

Publication Date:

April 2014