New Group to Improve Global Health Systems
WASHINGTON, DC and OOSTVOORNE, NETHERLANDS – (13 February 2007) – The Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI) - a UN Associate Member and non-profit healthcare education and information organization announces today the launch of its Division of Human Resources for Health (HRH).
“The growing global shortage of competent, well-trained, motivated healthcare and public health providers demands action now,” stated Dr. Harold E. Robles, president of MKI while speaking at the National Press Club, Washington, DC.
The MKI HRH division will be led by Judith Overall, M.Ed., MscHA, JD of the United States. “The world has reached a crisis point. We don’t have enough health workers, enough training, or enough reliable data for making informed decisions on how to keep trained workers in areas where they are most needed,” said Ms. Overall.
The MKI HRH team is multidisciplinary, multiethnic, multilingual, and multi-experienced. Members are from industry and academia globally. They have on-site, in-country experience in designing, teaching, monitoring, and evaluating health and public health programs, systems and curricula globally. Collectively, the team possesses fluency in all major languages.
The new division will assist local and national governments and organizations, as well as other health and public health entities, in assessment and development of health workforce capacity and health systems. The need for education and training plus reliable data and information dissemination about the health workforce and health systems has never been greater.
Last update:
April 2, 2012
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