Human Resources Development Alliance

Heading for Honiara tomorrow to start the next cohort in the Health Leadership and Management PG Dip at SINU and to set up an alumni association of graduates - and select 10 papers for publication at an HLM conference. This program is SINU’s first PG course - now with close to 60 graduates.

HRDA has been selected to review the WHO/PNG County Cooperation Strategy 2016-2020 to pave the way for the next one. Starting soon and with Dr Joyce Sauk as a PNG Associate.

Slow start to the year but now we have a course to develop for WHO in The Pacific, the Solomon Islands HLM course is starting up again and I’m leading the writing of the Fiji health system’s review. Should turn from slow to hectic.

We recent completed the Human Resource for Health Profile for Tonga identifying that they were at the best levels for many years giving them the opportunity to rationalise the HR budget to create positions for medical specialists- and then the volcano! Our thoughts go to those we worked with and we hope they get through this well.

We have just now submitted to WHO the Human Resources for Health Profile for the Kingdom of Tonga.

Happy to announce that we have contracted with WHO to do an inventory of mental health services, academic training and other providers of mental health support in the Pacific, NZ and Hawaii.

See our web page at Hrda.com.au for recent 2020 posts on PNG and Solomon Islands.

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Check the web page HRDA.com.au for recent updates on work in PNG, Solomon Islands and Malaysia.

HRDA – Human Resources for Development Alliance HRDA Directors and Senior Associates are experienced academic leaders with extensive international and national experience. Their combined expertise in health systems, program management, higher education and Human Resources for Health (HRH) presents a matchless combination of consulting expertise i...

HRDA has been contracted to review and revise the Papua New Guinea Human Resources for Health (HRH) Strategic Plan 2021-30 and to make recommendations to 2050. PNG is the most complex of nations confronting high population growth, major shortages of health staff, limited staff production capacity and other major resource constraints while attempting to decentralize health services.

The Health Leadership and Management programme has commenced again in HONIARA Solomon Islands with 21 candidates from across the Islands. This is the first postgraduate programme on offer in the Solomon Islands National University, so we are very proud to be part of the University's growth. Discussions now are directed to growing the programme into a Master of Public Health (Management) with the addition of studies in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Tropical Disease Control and Entomology/Parasitology and offering it to the Pacific Region. WHO has supported the programme with funding from Korea and we are now developing a business plan to create a sustainable annual offering. The strength of the programme is in its contextualization to health systems in the Pacific Region. Feedback has been very positive. It is anticipated that the networking developing among participants and graduates will transform the Solomon Islands health system