Negotiations Training in Nepal Progresses
April 30, 2011 (All day)
Nepal
Staff from the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) and Nepal's Administrative Staff College (NASC) who received training on how to teach negotiations skills in November 2010 practiced their skills by training 20 participants in negotiating for health development. A representative from CMPartners, a conflict management and negotiation firm, who trained the Nepali trainers was present to provide feedback and support to the team. The training session was a success and the team of trainers are now ready to lead future sessions on their own.
National Conference on Free Care Policies in Mali
March 31, 2011 (All day)
Mali
In recent years the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Mali extended its free care policies to include coverage of anti-retrovirals in 2004, cesarean sections in 2005 and new treatments against malaria (ACT) in 2007. In addition, several pilot projects supported by different NGOs have also been exploring strategies to provide free care for children under the age of five. Given the multitude of initiatives being implemented at the moment in Mali, the Ministry of Health requested researchers to gather useful evidence for decision-making particularly around the effects, implementation challenges, and costs associated with these various free care initiatives.
Aspen Global Health Roundtable: Straight Talk: A Conversation about Tough Questions in Global Health
March 21, 2011 (All day)
Washington, DC
The roundtable featured Hon. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health, Amie Batson, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID, and Amb. Mark Dybul, Co-director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.
