{"id":8696,"date":"2012-04-11T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8696"},"modified":"2012-04-11T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:31:09","slug":"africa-needs-human-resources-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/11\/africa-needs-human-resources-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa needs human resources strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> African countries must adopt a strategy for developing human resources with the skills to manage and deliver health research, argue Carel IJsselmuiden and colleagues from the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED).<\/p>\n<p>Although Africa&#8217;s health research capacity has grown in recent years, it remains uncoordinated, small-scale and driven from outside the continent, they say. The international community should support efforts to make human resources planning a key part of global and national agendas. This is essential for research into homegrown solutions for better health.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to strengthen human resources capacity for health research must include training individuals but also creating enabling environments \u2014 a &#8220;system with people who have skills including administration and management, priority setting, networking and leadership, translation into policy and action, dissemination, advocacy, and ethics&#8221;, write the authors.<\/p>\n<p>Human resource building activities currently overlap between sectors \u2014 health, science and technology, and higher education \u2014 and, as a result, gaps are not addressed systematically.<\/p>\n<p>IJsselmuiden and colleagues recommend that African countries develop a coordinated strategy to build capacity; that greater collaboration between international funders must be encouraged to make capacity building part of research programmes; and that current efforts should be diversified and evaluated to measure their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Link to full article in South Africa Medical Journal<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Malaria_researchers_Flickr_US_Army_Africa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Malaria_researchers_Flickr_US_Army_Africa.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Malaria_researchers_Flickr_US_Army_Africa\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8699\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African countries must adopt a strategy for developing human resources with the skills to manage and deliver health research, argue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,81],"tags":[699,333,258],"class_list":["post-8696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-national-news","tag-africa","tag-health","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}