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Council CEO Sturchio Responds to Accordia Foundation Report on Building Health Care Leadership in Africa
July 3, 2009
Several prominent global health care experts on Thursday, June 18, responded to a new Accordia Global Health Foundation report, titled "Building Healthcare Leadership in Africa: A Call to Action." The report - which focuses on strengthening health care leadership in Africa from the level of the individual, institution and overall network - reflects findings from Accordia Global Health Foundation’s 2009 Infectious Diseases Summit in Kampala, Uganda.
The panel of respondents included Global Health Council President and CEO Jeffrey L. Sturchio; Joan Holloway from Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator; Kate Tulenko, Coordinator of the Africa Health Workforce Program at the World Bank; and Ernest Darkoh, Chairman of BroadReach Healthcare, LLC.
Sturchio stressed the importance of communities and the private sector in health care management and leadership in Africa – which would make training more affordable, accessible, sustainable and scalable. "We all know, and the report points this out as well, that there is a tremendous gap, particularly in Africa, for health care professionals at all levels. The numbers are just staggering." Sturchio said.
He added, "It's going to be difficult to scale up the output of the existing institutions in Africa to meet this gap in the near term. So in order to find ways to ensure that you have the trained leaders in the health care systems in Africa who can solve today's problems, one of the things that needs to be done at the same time we are trying to scale up the production of new professionals is to find ways to make the people who are already there even more productive and help them be more efficient in what they already do."
The full report is available on Accordia Global Health Foundation's Website:
http://www.accordiafoundation.org/sites/www.accordiafoundation.org/files/Accordia%20Healthcare%20Ldrship%20Call%20to%20Action_high%20res.pdf
category: Global Health Council News : Publications
contributed by Liza Nanni on 3 July 2009
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