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August 9, 2010
HRH Labor Markets Course: Analyze & Plan Human Resources for Health
Location: Berkeley, California USA
Venue: University of California, Berkeley
Dates: August 9 - 13, 2010
Application deadline: April 15,
2010
This course will teach economic models and tools used to estimate workforce needs, demand, and supply. The course will provide an overview of key topical areas centered on increasing productivity, including skill mix, distribution, and incentives. It will analyze HRH policies that have strengthened health systems, such as improving health worker effectiveness, increasing re cruitment and retention, and reducing urban-rural imbalances.
Who should attend: This course is designed for managers, planners, and analysts who work in the human resources in health field within organizations such as Ministries of Health, health care facilities, aid organizations, and academic institutions, particularly those from low or middle income countries. The principles taught in the course will be applicable to all countries, but the case studies will focus on low-income countries. The case studies will include quantitative exercises, such as analyzing data.
Format and language: The format will be a combination of lectures and formal instruction, and group projects. Specifically, lectures will occur each morning, and afternoon small-group projects will apply the tools learned in the lectures. The course will be taught in English.
Curriculum
Day 1: Health workers and labor market principles. How do health workers function within a health system? How are health workers defined (e.g., education, skills)? What factors affect the labor force supply and demand, and how are wages determined?
Day 2: Workforce need, demand, and supply. What methods are used to estimate health workforce need and demand? How is workforce supply forecasted? How can skill mix changes reduce forecasted shortages? How is inequality measured? What are the key health worker data sources?
Day 3: Incentives. How do you recruit and retain health workers? What factors affect equity and distribution, and how can you influence them? How do you recruit workers to rural areas? What incentives have been deployed and to what effect?
Day 4: Financing. How do financing choices affect the health workforce? What are the different types of healthcare financing systems that exist, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each? How do countries vary with respect to public, private, insurance, and out of pocket payments?
Day 5: Policy evaluation. How do you include an evaluation component within a policy design, for example, to test the effect of incentives? How do economists and policy-makers work together, and what are examples of how they have worked together in your home country? How do global health initiatives such as the United Nations Millennium Development Goals affect workforce planning?
Instructors:
Timothy T. Brown, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Mario R. Dal Poz, MD, PhD, MSc, World Health Organization
Brent D. Fulton, PhD, MBA, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas L. Hall, MD, DrPH, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Audrey LaPorte, PhD, University of Toronto
Alexander S. Preker, MD, PhD, The World Bank
Richard M. Scheffler, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Agnes Soucat, MD, MPH, Ph.D, The World Bank
Joanne Spetz, PhD, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing
Kate Tulenko, MD, MPH, MPhil, IntraHealth, CapacityPlus
Marko Vujicic, PhD, The World Bank
Logistics and Details
When: August 9-13, 2010
Location: Berkeley, California. Applicants are expected to stay at the Berkeley City Club, where the course will be held along with breakfast and lunch. Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704, +1-510-848-7800, guestservices@berkeleycityclub.com
Course fee: $3,200 includes breakfast and lunch, one dinner, and course materials.
Application: Individuals who are interested in admission to the course need to submit an application and curriculum vitae by April 15, 2010. Application can be found at: http://ghwen.org/training/hrh/register
Visas: Applicants are responsible to obtain a visa.
This course is being sponsored by The Global Health Workforce Economics Network (GHWEN), housed in the University of California-Berkeley, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. The objective of the GHWEN is to promote collaboration in health workforce economics research, with an emphasis on developing evidence for actionable policy-making.
Contact:
Amy Nuttbrock, Course Coordinator
Email: amynuttbrock@berkeley.edu
Telephone: +1-510-643-4100
Facsimile: +1-510-643-4281
Brent D. Fulton, Ph.D., Academic Coordinator
Email: fultonb@berkeley.edu
Telephone: +1-510-643-4102
