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CAN-56 [AMRO]
Status
Active
Title of the centre:
  WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Science Education and Practice

Director / Head: 
  Pr Paul GRAND'MAISON
 




Institution:
  Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
  University of Sherbrooke
Address:
  3001, 12th Avenue North
  J1H 5N4
  Quebec
Town:
  Sherbrooke
Country:
  CANADA
Region:
  AMRO
Phone:
  (1-819) 564 5203
Fax:
  (1-819) 564 5378
Date of Designation:
  18/Jun/2001
Last Redesignation:
  20/Aug/2009
Expiry:
  20/Aug/2013
Terms of Reference:
  1. To contribute to the development & capacity building of human resources in health optimally responsive to individual & population health needs. 
  2. To contribute to the improvement of the relevance & performance of practitioners in primary care & community health service delivery systems through capacity building of health human resources & improvement of clinical practice. 
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Subjects:
  1. Human resources for health (excluding Nursing) 
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Types of activity:
  1. Evaluation  
  2. Information dissemination 
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WHO organization wide expected result:
  10.8 - Health-workforce information and knowledge base strengthened, and country capacities for policy analysis, planning, implementation, information-sharing and research built up.
  10.9 - Technical support provided to Member States, with a focus on those facing severe health-workforce difficulties in order to improve the production, distribution, skill mix and retention of the health workforce.
 
Responsible Officer:
  BORRELL-BENTZ Rosa Maria
Phone:
  202-974-3876
Email:
  borrellr@paho.org

Technical Counterpart:
  NKOWANE Annette Mwansa
Phone:
  +41 22 79 14314
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
  Link to eWork