Geneva - WHO has published a prototype curricula package for institutions delivering programmes for current or aspiring leaders and managers of human resources for health.
Access to health services depends on the accessibility, availability, acceptability and quality of health workers, which in turn requires effective human resources for health leadership and management. These capacities are as critical for emergency preparedness and response, as for development, management and leadership of the public health workforce.
At the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly, over one hundred countries co-sponsored the resolution on human resources for health, adopting the Working for Health 2022-2030 Action Plan. The resolution calls for transformational policy action to optimize the existing health and care workforce, creating and distributing the skills and jobs needed to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage; build the diversity, availability, and capacity of human resources for health; and strengthen the protection and performance of health and care workers to deliver health for all and respond to health emergencies.
Leadership and management of this technical area requires expertise combined with judgement, foresight, and balancing long-term planning with short-term demands. With this publication, WHO offers a prototype curricula package for institutions to adapt and offer specialist training in HRH leadership and management oriented towards policy decision-making specific to HRH, equipping learners to set and steward the HRH agenda effectively.
The curricula package includes three prototype curricula for an executive one-week course, one-month course and masters course, with specific learning outcomes in facilitating policy dialogue, policy decision-making, as well as the technical production of human resources for health analyses. The curricula include suggested units of learning, reading lists, case studies, learning activities and assessments.
A webinar to introduce the package will be presented on 3 November 2022.