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.
Competency-based education is widely acknowledged as the benchmark for transforming education and training of the health workforce for improved population and health outcomes. However, it has the potential to improve the health of the community only in
so far as it uses context-specific health issues to determine the desired outcomes.
With this webinar, WHO launches its Global Competency and Outcomes Framework towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In so doing, WHO sets out its recommended approach to competency-based education of health workers, focusing on those competencies and
other education outcomes for health workers in primary health care with a pre-service training pathway of 12-48 months. The Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for UHC is designed with a population health needs focus, therefore providing a powerful
approach through which to align education strategies in relation to the context, health systems and population health needs.
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Audience
- Individuals and organizations with an interest in strengthening health worker education, in developing or operationalizing competency frameworks or competency-based learning, and in securing progress towards UHC
Objectives
- Ensuring the quality and relevance of the health workforce through competency-based education and training
- The contribution of competency-based education towards health workforce strengthening and the achievement of UHC
- The WHO Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for UHC: what it is and how to use it
Agenda
| Title | Speaker |
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| Welcome remarks | Jim Campbell |
| Health workforce and the achievement of UHC | Director General |
| Competency-based education towards the achievement of UHC | Jim Campbell |
| Introduction to WHO Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for UHC | Siobhan Fitzpatrick |
| Perspective from India | Dr Rajeev Sadanandan |
| Perspective from education | Professor Address Mauakowa Malata |
| Q and A | All |
| Closing remarks | Jim Campbell |
Panelists
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Jim Campbell is the Director of the Health Workforce Department at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He oversees the development and implementation of global public goods, evidence and tools to inform investment |
| Siobhan Fitzpatrick is Technical Officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva. Since joining the Health Workforce Department in 2018, she has led the development of the Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for UHC. The framework has since been adopted by the WHO Academy to underpin the provision of its lifelong learning programmes and provided the foundations for other competency-based education efforts including in sexual and reproductive health and refugee and migrant health. She coordinates the Global Health Workforce Network Education Hub and provides technical advice on strengthening health worker education across a number of areas including human resources for health leadership and management and digital education. |
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Rajeev Sadanandan is the CEO of Health System Transformation Platform, a think tank on Health Policy and Systems in New Delhi. He had worked as health secretary of Kerala state, CEO of Rashtriy Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), |
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Address Mauakowa Malata is the Vice-Chancellor of Malawi University of Science and Technology, former President of Africa Honor Society of Nursing of Sigma Theta Tau International; former Vice President, International |

