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Abstract #166791

Amy Hagopian, PhD, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, 4534 11th Av. NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-616-4809, hagopian@u.washington.edu

The purpose of the following sessions for the Maternal and Child Health Leadership Orientation is to provide public health practitioners, program managers, and others working with international organizations and institutions information about the major impediments to health system strengthening including limited national health budgets and reduced health workforces and to present participants with skills and strategies for health system strengthening given the context of working in constrained environments.

Dr. Amy Hagopian, a professor from the University of Washington, will be the second presenter/facilitator. Dr. Hagopian will provide participants with an overview of the elements that are needed in determining human resource needs at the national level, including a human resource inventory and needs assessment. She will also present a model for calculating human resource needs for AIDS treatment work using a tool that was developed for Mozambique. This tool has been used in the AIDS treatment expansion that the Ministry of Health has implemented during the past three years. Participants will learn the factors that were considered in determining the additional number and type of health care workers needed to provide care to people living with AIDS.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to analyze the human resource needs for health system strengthening in Ethiopia and the elements that should be considered when formulating a coordinated human resource plan.
• Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to calculate human resources needs for AIDS treatment expansion based on a model that was used in Mozambique, adapting it to the Ethiopian context.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.