Health workforce research and advice

Date: 2011-2012
WHO CC involvement: Professor Jim Buchan

Poor maternal health services and limited access to reproductive health in developing nations is accompanied by an inadequate supply and skills mix of staff needed to deliver health care interventions, commodities and information necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 5 (MDG 5). A study, funded by WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, seeks to address the knowledge gap by identifying evidence from task shifting experiences in small island developing states (SIDS) that have contributed to improved maternal health and access to reproductive health. The final report will be available on the WHO CC UTS website.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.