We are very pleased to inform that the International Conference on Research in Human Resources for Health, to be held on June 9th-11th, will be broadcasted online in real time enabling broader participation.
Conference Programme:
June 09
1pm Official Opening of International Conference on Research in Human Resources for Health by the Director of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Health Workforce Planning and Information, Dr. Celia Regina Pierantoni and invited authorities.
1:30pm Opening Conference "Health Research in Brazil and Abroad", speaker Dr. Reinaldo Guimarães, Secretary for Science, Technology and Strategic Imputs - SCTIE/Health Department.
2:30pm - 6pm
Session 01 - Human Resources for Health Information Systems and Allocation Models.
Chair: Paulo Henrique D Ângelo Seixas
Discussant: Félix Héctor Rígoli
2:30pm 1.1 - Argentina - Argentina: The Human Resources for Health Information
Speaker: Mónica Abramzóm
2:50pm 1.2 - United States - Using Routine Human Resource Information Systems to Manage, Measure, and Monitor the Health Workforce
Speaker: Carl Leitner
3:10pm 1.3 - Uruguay - Human Resources Information Systems and State Regulatory Capacity in Health Systems
Speaker: Gabriela Pradere
3:30pm Break
4pm 1.3 - Brazil - Workload Indicators for Staffing Family Health Strategy
Speaker: Maria Ruth dos Santos
4:20pm 1.4 - Mozambique - Service Delivery Units: a Shortcut to Calculate Workload Indicators in Mozambique?
Speaker: Ferruccio Vio
4:40pm 1.5 - Brazil - Computerized Staffing of Health Workers: Software Development
Speaker: Raquel Rapone Gaidzinski
5pm Debate
June 10
9am - 12:20pm
Session 02 - Health Labour Market and Suply and Demand Trends.
Chair: Marie-Gloriose Ingabire
Discussant: Ana Luiza D Ávila Viana
9am 2.1 - Brazil - Health Labour Market Trends in Brazil
Speaker: Maria Helena Machado
9:20am 2.2 - Brazil - Health Workers: Anaysis of Schooling Differences between Public and Private Sector, using the PNAD-2005
Speaker: Arlinda Moreno
9:40am 2.3 - Brazil - MigraMed - Medical Migration in Brazil: Trends and Motivation
Speaker: Paulo Henrique D Ângelo Seixas
10am Break
10:30am 2.4 - Brazil - Specialist Physicians Support Training Program in Brazil - PRO-RESIDÊNCIA: Incentives to training Specialists according to Health System Needs
Speaker: Sigisfredo Brenelli
10:50am 2.5 - United States - Human Resources for Mental Health: Workforce Shortages in Lower and Middle Income Countries
Speaker: Richard M. Scheffler
11:10am Debate
12:20pm Lunch
2:30pm - 6pm
Session 03 - Human Resources for Health Assessment and Planning Approaches.
Chair: Eduardo Levcovitz
Discussant: Richard M. Scheffler
2:30pm 3.1 - Brazil - Shortage of Doctors Index in Brazil: Exploratory Study on the Scope of Primary Care
Speaker: Sabado Nicolau Girardi
2:50pm 3.2 - Portugal - Costing the ScalingUp of Human Resources for Health: Lessons from Mozambique and Guinea Bissau
Speaker: Giuliano Russo
3:10pm 3.3 - Nigeria - Health Care Indicators and Attendant Care Factors in Nigeria: Implication for the Attainment of MDGs
Speaker: Adetunji Labiran
3:30pm Break
4pm 3.4 - Brazil - Performance Evaluation for Family Health in Brazil: the Use of Normative Principles for Design the Metrics
Speaker: Allan Claudius Queiroz Barbosa
4:20pm 3.5 - Brazil - Regionalization Stages and Institutionality Levels of Continuous Education
Speaker: Ana Luiza D Ávila Viana
4:40pm Debate
6pm Presentation of the Global Health Workforce Economics Network.
7:45pm-10pm Informal party at the swimming pool of Sheraton Rio Hotel and Resort.
June 11
9am - 12:20pm
Session 04 - Human Resources for Health Assessment and Planning Approaches.
Chair: Cid Manso de Mello Vianna
Discussant: Francisco Eduardo de Campos
9am 4.1 - China - Human Resources for Health in Rural China: an Assessment of the Current Situation and Projection of Future Needs
Speaker: Minquan Liu
9:20am 4.2 - Mexico - Human Resources for Health Methodology and Metrics for Latin America and the Caribbean
Speaker: Gustavo Humberto Nigenda Lopez
9:40am 4.3 - Netherlands - Using the WageIndicator Websurvey to Monitor Human Resources for Health
Speaker: Daniel H. de Vries
10am Break
10:30am 4.4 - Chile - Human Resources for Health and the Burden of Disease: an Econometric Approach
Speaker: Carla Castillo
10:50am 4.5 - Switzerland - Models to Investigate the Association of Health Workers Availability and Health Outcomes at Sub-national Level: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Speaker: Angelica Sousa
11:10am Debate
12:20pm Closing session of International Conference on Research in Human Resources for Health.
International Conference on Research in Health Human Resources
9-11 June 2010
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jointly organized by:
World Health Organization, Department of Human Resources for Health
Pan American Health Organization / Program of Human Resources
Pan American Health Organization - Representative Office Brazil
Brazilian Ministry of Health, Secretary of Health Labour and Education Management
University of California, Berkeley: Global Health Workforce Economics Network
World Bank
and other partners
Objective: To strengthen evidence and knowledge with respect to health workforce development and to promote the use of innovative methodological approaches, data or tools, to measure and monitor health workforce capacity to respond to public health needs.
Call for abstracts
We invite researchers to submit an abstract related to the following themes, which may be from a country-specific, regional, or global perspective. Submissions from international collaborations are highly encouraged:
· The use of new and existing data sources and tools to measure and monitor the health workforce’s capacity
· Parameters of staffing allocation for health services
· The use of innovative measures and predictive models to analyze health workforce supply-demand dynamics, as well as wage levels, especially for low-skilled workers
· The effect of health workforce geographical distribution, mobility, rural-urban migration, and demographics on access, quality, organization and outputs/outcomes of health service delivery
· Health workforce demand and training needs under various health service delivery models
· Health productivity and skill mix, and the tools used to measure and monitor them
· The structure, scope, and role of the private sector in the supply of human resources for health
