Health sector policy responses for human resources for health during COVID-19

This presentation – Health sector policy responses for human resources for health during COVID-19 – was given as part of a webinar on human resources for health in crises contexts.

Health workforce under stress: impact of crises on human resources for health and the policy responses was hosted by Health System Global’s Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings [join them via LinkedIn]. Sushil Baral of HERD International presented a ReBUILD case study looking at the impact of COVID-19 and federalisation in Nepal’s health system, how individual health workers adapted, and the policies enacted to support them.

You can watch the full webinar – which included a case study on Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador and a presentation on evidence of policy responses to rebuilding an effective health workforce in conflict-affected settings – here. [opens new tab]

Subtitles are available on this video (press ‘play’ and then ‘cc’ at the bottom of the window).

Further information

This presentation is based on the study Understanding health system resilience to respond to COVID-19 in a federalised context: a case study of health workforce management at sub-national level in Nepal. There’s more on that research and other outputs here.