Field Call with Dr. Peter Ngatia Dir. of Capacity Building Jan 12, 2012

Field Call with Dr. Peter Ngatia, AMREF Director of Capacity Building
Jan 12th, 2011

Dr. Peter Ngatia, AMREF Director of Capacity Building, actively participated at the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Bangkok, January 25-29, 2011. 

In this Field Call Dr. Ngatia discusses the urgent need, as well as challenges faced, to increase frontline health workers in Africa.  Combining evidenced-based learning from the field with practical solutions, Dr. Ngatia addresses the following topics and directly takes questions from callers. 

  • The health related Millennium Development Goals  
  • Recruitment and retention of health workers in Africa
  • Technology and health workers: E-Learning and M-Learning 
  • The role of the United States and other governments in training more health workers
 

Learn about both past progress, challenges faced by AMREF health worker training initiatives and hear about steps needed to increase the number of trained health workers across Africa.

Click here to listen to the field call.