Brain drain in Africa: bilateral agreements on health workforce migration and mobility
On 25 April 2024, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa, WHO Country Office for Nigeria, and the African Health Observatory – Platform on Health Systems and Policies (AHOP), hosted a policy dialogue on brain drain in Africa. Key stakeholders from across the Nigerian health sector, as well as academics and ministry officials from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Senegal attended to discuss the policy question: Can bilateral agreements and other collaborative strategies effectively manage health worker migration and mitigate shortages in the health workforce in African countries?
Engagement of the private health sector in the delivery of tertiary health care services in Ethiopia
On 21 March 2024, the African Health Observatory – Platform on Health Systems and Policies (AHOP), in partnership with the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (MoH), and the World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopia Country Office, hosted a policy dialogue on private health sector engagement in tertiary health care services in Ethiopia.
Promoting systemic use of research evidence to inform health policy and practice in Kenya
On 15 February 2023, the Kenya National Centre (NC) – the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme – of the African Health Observatory – Platform on Health Systems and Policies (AHOP) hosted a policy dialogue (PD) to discuss the role of evidence in informing strategies used during the COVID-19 pandemic. The PD brought together key stakeholders from the health sector, including representatives from the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MoH), County Departments of Health (CDoH), the Council of Governors (CoG), international and development partners, research institutes, and health systems experts.
Optimizing the Ethiopian Health Extension Program: policy options to address workforce challenges
The Ethiopia National Centre of the African Health Observatory Platform on Health Systems and Polices (AHOP) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) organized and deliberated a policy dialogue on “Optimizing the Ethiopian Health Extension Program: strategies to address workforce challenges”. In the dialogue, participants included representatives from the
FMOH, Regional Health Bureaus (RHB), International Institute of Primary Health Care-Ethiopian (IIPHC) WHO country Office, MOH, Ethiopian Institute of Policy Studies (EIPS), USAID Ethiopia, and Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA).