Title of the centre:
WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Workforce Policy and Planning
Director / Head:
Professor Gilles Dussault
Institution:
International Health Unit, Institute of Higiene and Tropical Medicine
University Nova of Lisbon
Address:
Rua da Junqueira, 100
1349-008
Town:
Lisbon
Country:
PORTUGAL
Region:
EURO
Phone:
+351 21 3652664
Fax:
+351 21 3632105
Date of Designation:
01/Nov/2011
Last Redesignation:
01/Nov/2011
Expiry:
01/Nov/2015
Date of Discontinuation:
Terms of Reference:
- Research: To contribute to WHO's effort to assess and evaluate health workforce the effectiveness and economic efficiency of policies and practices in the PALOPs (African Portuguese-Speaking Countries ), Timor Leste and European Region, with an emphasis on supporting the Primary Health Care agenda.
- To work with WHO to help countries in their efforts to strengthen the capacity and the performance of their health workforce
- Technical collaboration: to collaborate with WHO in supporting human resources for health regional and national policy development and implementation
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Subjects:
- Human resources for health (excluding Nursing)
- Health systems research & development
- Research policy & development
Types of activity:
- Collection; collation and dissemination of information
- Coordination of activities carried out by several institutions (e.g. other WHO collaborating centres)
- Product development (guidelines; manual; methodologies; etc.)
WHO organization wide expected result:
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10.8 - Health-workforce information and knowledge base strengthened, and country capacities for policy analysis, planning, implementation, information-sharing and research built up. |
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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. |
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Responsible Officer:
SOUSA Maria Angelica
Phone:
+41 22 79 12793
Technical Counterpart:
PERFILIEVA Galina
Phone:
+45 39171544
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
Link to eWork
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