CapacityPlus recently published its second technical brief, West Africa’s Regional Approach to Strengthening Health Workforce Information, by Kayode Odusote, Carol Bales, Sarah Dwyer, and Dykki Settle.

The West African Health Organization (WAHO) serves 15 member countries, all of which have less than the WHO recommended 2.3 doctors, nurses, and midwives per 1,000 people. Simply put, there are too few health workers to meet the region's health service delivery needs,…

Fort Detrick, MD (PRWEB) April 15, 2012

The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, has been on the forefront of medical discoveries for decades. There are many promising research opportunities as well as technologies just waiting to be commercialized into the civilian…

There is much to celebrate on World Water Day this year.

A progress report released this month confirms that in 2010 the world achieved the Millennium Development Goal target of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water. More than 2 billion people have received access to an improved water source since 1990.

For an estimated 780…

 Last month, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded the National Training Mechanism in Kenya project to IntraHealth International. With this new five-year, $40 million cooperative agreement, IntraHealth and its partners, including Great Lakes University of Kisumu, the Kenya Healthcare Federation, Moi University, Results for Development Institute, University of Nairobi, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will support the government of Kenya to…

CapacityPlus recently published a new brief on how governments can work with FBOs to improve the health workforce.

Faith-based organizations play a key role in providing health care in many parts of the world. According to the World Health Organization, in African countries FBOs own and operate an estimated 30% to 70% of the health care facilities and provide health care through hospitals, clinics, and community- and home-based programs. In many countries, FBOs train a…

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The RTI International Board of Governors has selected RTI’s Executive Vice President of Social, Statistical and Environmental Sciences Wayne Holden to succeed Victoria Haynes as president and chief executive officer of RTI.

"I am honored and pleased to be selected as RTI International’s next president and CEO," saidHolden. "RTI is a unique organization, and I look…

Established in 1999, the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) is a Zambian non-profit company with a broad academic mission in health program implementation, clinical and outcomes research, and training. The organization has multiple U. S. partner institutions, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Vanderbilt University. CIDRZ’s topical focal areas include HIV/AIDS; maternal-child health; cervical cancer;…

Malawi’s vacancy rate for nursing and midwifery positions in the public sector is 65%, but producing more health workers to fill the gaps is no easy task. In the latest edition of CapacityPlus Voices, "Nurses Needed: Partnering to Scale Up Health Worker Education in Malawi," Verah Nkosi shares her perspective as a nursing-midwifery student in her final year of training. Her story illustrates some common challenges for increasing the quantity and quality of graduates from health…

The University of North Carolina’s Board of Trustees has named Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Bentley a Distinguished Professor. Dr. Bentley, a professor in nutrition, who is also associate dean for global health at UNC and Board Chair of the Triangle Global Health Consortium, has been named the Carla Smith…

UNC HIV research named 'Breakthrough of the Year'

An HIV prevention research study led by UNC professor Myron S. Cohen, M.D., has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.

The study, HIV Prevention Trials Network 052, evaluated whether antiretroviral…

North Carolina State University is now accepting applications for its new IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) PhD program titled "Genetic Engineering and Society: The case of transgenic pests". 

The first cohort of students who will start in July 2012 will focus on mosquitoes that vector malaria and dengue. 

Detailed information can be found at the program website …

Rising Stars in Global Health

This program aims to tap into the creativity, knowledge and skills of emerging innovators from low- and lower-middle income countries to solve some of the most persistent health challenges in the developing world through scientific/technological, business, and social innovation. We call this…

Save the Date -- Call for Papers

Considering Women in Advancing the Surgeon General’s Call to Action 

7^th Breastfeeding and Feminism Conference…

Emerging Issues in Today’s HIV Response

Debate

Thursday, November 10  |  8:00-10:00 a.m.  |  Webcast

This Thursday, the sixth debate in the series, Treatment as Prevention, will feature Dr. Myron…

Washington, D.C., U.S.A. and Brisbane, Australia – Today, GRM International and the Futures Group announced that the two firms will merge to create a global leader in development with approximately 90 current projects operating in more than 60 countries, and $225 million in revenue. The combined group will have a multisectoral focus, more diverse technical offerings and a wider geographic reach.

This merger will give clients and partners access to a top-tier health and…

Nothing says global health like soap for all!

One of our own - Derreck Kayongo - has been listed on CNN's top ten heroes list and is in the running to win a major award for his non-profit organization, the Global Soap Project. It is an organization that takes soap donated by hotels, melts it down, sanitizes it and then makes it into bars that are shipped to communities in Africa as part of their health education and disease prevention programs. Nothing else…

We’re looking forward to seeing you this year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Join attendees from 60 countries to address critical issues facing drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds. The conference is only 3 weeks away and there’s still time to register.

This year’s event features over 25 workshop and networking events and a new Young Water Professionals Lounge. Workshop descriptions, as well as a…

School's Closed for 67 Million Kids: Opening the Doors for the World's Poorest Children

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

1:30-3:00pm

Hosted by NC Triangle RESULTS

Watts Street Baptist Church

800 Watts St.

Durham, NC 27701

A woman in South Sudan is more likely to die in childbirth than finish high school. This statement from Dr. Rajiv Shah,…