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Back in January, I was invited to participate as a Technical Leader for this year’s Global Health Council Conference: New Technologies + Proven Strategies = Healthy Communities  Many conversations, meetings, planning, and emails later, this week we ... [More] stand in the midst of the best GHC Conference I have yet attended. Already this week I have heard great [...] [Less]

The second plenary session I attended was called “The Big Choice: The Successes and Challenges of Open Source Technology.” The panelists were Karl Brown from the Rockefeller Foundation, Paul Biondich of OpenMRS, Alexandre Rideau of Reseau African ... [More] d’Education pour la Sante and our own Pape Gaye, CEO of IntraHealth International. While the panelists were careful to [...] [Less]

I am only attending the Global Health Council Conference for today, unfortunately, but I was at two great sessions this morning. I’m going to highlight the key points in this post and the next, and I hope my colleagues will pick up where I left off for the remainder of the conference. The first session was [...]

If you are attending the Global Health Council Conference, please plan to stop by the Capacity Project’s auxiliary event on Wednesday evening: Using Better Data, Making Better Decisions. It is being held in the Ambassador Ballroom on May 27 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Incentives: refreshments, a chance to win an iPod Touch and a flash drive [...]

Please plan to join us for one or more of the events we have planned for Global Health Council’s 36th Annual Conference this week. This is a great opportunity to meet members of the HRIS strengthening team, learn more about the HRIS software we have developed and learn how our efforts are improving countries’ ability [...]

Wednesday, May 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Omni Shoreham Hotel Ambassador Ballroom The Capacity Project will present an interactive expo as an auxiliary event at the Global Health Council conference in Washington, DC. Participants will have the ... [More] opportunity to: Experience useful resources and tools Engage in hands-on demonstrations of the Project’s technology solutions Learn about countries’ successes and challenges View a short film about [...] [Less]

Dr. Pamela McQuide will share IntraHealth’s experience in strengthening human resources information systems (HRIS) during a panel session at the 36th International Conference on Global Health on May 29, 2:30–4:15, in Washington, DC. The panel, Health ... [More] Workforce: Addressing the Crisis, will be moderated by IntraHealth’s Anne Wilson, director of the Capacity Project. Doctors, nurses and other [...] [Less]

IntraHealth International will highlight its commitment to leveraging technology to benefit the people of the developing world during the 36th annual International Conference on Global Health in Washington D.C., May 26-30. Hosted by the Global Health ... [More] Council, this year’s conference, “New Technologies + Proven Strategies = Healthy Communities,” focuses on the ways in which technologies [...] [Less]

In March and April, a Capacity Project evaluation team conducted qualitative interviews with 18 key informants at the central and district levels involved in strengthening Rwanda’s human resources information system (HRIS) using the Capacity ... [More] Project’s iHRIS Manage software. The open source software has been customized to meet Rwanda’s specific needs. Preliminary results indicate that despite [...] [Less]

The Capacity Project, in collaboration with the East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) Health Community and WHO, conducted the “Africa Regional Meeting on Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS): Taking Stock, Sharing Lessons and Setting the ... [More] Agenda for the Future” on April 20-24 in Arusha, Tanzania. Over 50 HR managers and technology experts represented ten countries [...] [Less]