Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health

The 4^th AAAH Conference
and
The 3^rdmeeting of the WHO expert group on “Increasing Access to Health
workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention”

THE THEME:

“Getting committed health workers to the underserved areas: a challenge for the health systems”
23-25 November 2009
Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel, Hanoi Vietnam

Monday 23 November 2009

Time	Content
0830 – 1000	Address by: • Representative of GHWA • Representative of WB • Representative of WHO • Chairperson of AAAH Steering Committee • The Strategic plan for the Decade of National HRH Development 2007-2016
	Opening address by the Minister of Health of Vietnam
	Keynote Address by Dr Lincoln Chen, President of the China Medical Board
1030 – 1200	Plenary session: Situation, factors and recommendations on “Getting committed health workers to the underserved areas” • Introduction to the WHO programme, presentation on the global situation and the work of the expert group by Dr Jean-Marc Braichet • Introduction to a WHO Code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel by Dr Manuel M.Dayrit • Regional situation and solutions: WHO Africa by Dr Magda Awases • Regional situation and solutions: WHO SEAR and WPR by WHO SEARO/WPRO • Regional strategy on HRH by Toomas Palu • Overview HRH situation and health policy to address HRH challenge in Vietnam by Prof Le Quang Cuong

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Time	Content
0800-0930	Plenary session: contextual factors affecting HRH in underserved areas • Introduction of WHO draft recommendations by Dr. Carmen Dolea • Monitoring and evaluation framework for retention interventions by Dr Luis Huicho • Costing the retention interventions by Dr Pascal Zurn
1000 – 1300	Parallel session 1: Education interventions Country presentations • Training of Physicians for improving rural health care in Nepal: Building bridges to address the urban-rural gap. by Arjun Karki • First-year medical students in Thailand: rural attitudes and preferred workplace upon graduation by Kamolnat Muangyim • Training and policy training health staff for disadvantaged areas in Vietnam by Dr Tran duc Thuan • U.S. Strategies for Addressing Geographic Maldistribution of Physicians by Jordan Cohen • South Africa by Ian Couper WHO recommendations • WHO expert group presentation by Ray Pong
	Parallel session 2: Regulatory interventions Country presentations • A national pilot project of recruiting and retaining licensed doctors in township health centers in China: Supportive Evidence from the Un-registered Licensed Doctors Survey by Hong Zhang • Presentation on Project 1816 on Rotation health workers to lower level of health care system in Vietnam by Cao Hung Thai • The role and function of regulatory interventions to retain health workers in the Asia and Pacific Regions by John Hall • South Africa by Steve Reid WHO recommendations • WHO expert group presentation by Seble Frehywot
	Parallel session 3: Financial interventions Country presentations • Factors discouraging and retaining medical doctors to work in underserved areas of Vietnam by Nguyen Bach Ngoc • What makes doctors choose to work in rural area of Thailand: Discrete Choice Experiment to elicit doctors’ job choices by Nonglak Pagaiya • Zambia by Hilary Mwale, Solomon Kagulula and Mwansa Nkowane WHO recommendations • WHO expert group presentation by Aly Sy/Marko Vujicic
1400 – 1700	Parallel session 4: Working environment and management system Country presentations • Designing an incentive system for the deployment and retention of public-sector health workers in rural and remote areas Bangladesh by Ahmed Al Kabir • Enhancement of rural health worker job satisfaction through introducing 5S, Kaizen and Quality Circle concepts in Sri Lanka by Udaya Isaac Ratnayake • 'Task shifting or task transformation: who cares management?’ by Masamine Jimba • Mali by Salif Samake WHO recommendations • WHO expert group presentation by Jim Buchan
	Parallel session 5: Social and spiritual motivation Country presentations • Revitalizing health for all: Developing a Comprehensive Primary Health Care model for Bangladesh by Taufique Joarder • Motivation of healthcare workers to combat child mortality in tribal areas: Lessons from India by Sudha Ramani • A case study on the education and training of family health workers to retain in rural communities in Sri Lanka by A. Pubudu De Silva • African country (TBC) WHO recommendations • WHO expert group presentation by Pawit Vanichanon
	Parallel session 6: External factors that affect HRH in the underserved areas Country presentations • Cambodia by (TBC) • Viewing decentralization as an opportunity: in improving availability of health workers in underserved areas Indonesia by Anna Kurniati • Improving availability and retention of health workers in remote and underserviced areas: The Lao PDR experience by Chantakat Paphassarang • Getting Committed Health Workers to the Underserved Areas: A Case Study of Health Decentralization Reform in Thailand World Bank By Sutayut Osornprasop • Tanzania by Martins Ovberedjo WHO recommendations • WHO expert group presentation by Tim Martineau

Wednesday 25 November 2009

Time	Content	Moderator
0830 – 1030	Summary of the outputs and feedback from the previous day's parallel sessions. by lead rapporteur	Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert Dr Manuel M Dayrit
1100 – 1200	AAAH – lessons learnt from the past, the present and the way forward by • AAAH secretariat • AAAH members • Comments from GHWA, WHO, WB, etc.	Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert Dr Manuel M Dayrit
1230 – 1300	Closure of the meeting	Vietnam