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Resilience or coping? Community health workers’ adaptive strategies in response to COVID-19

May 25, 2022

Blog post on community health workers during COVID-19, the difference between ‘coping’ and ‘resilience’ and how the health system itself impacts on workers’ abilities


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Webinar: Health system resilience – framing, debates and latest evidence as we start to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic

May 12, 2022

Webinar on the concept and application of resilience in health systems research in light of COVID-19


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Building a resilient local health system in Nepal

Apr 27, 2022

In this blog post HERD International asks what we can learn from COVID-19 and how we can develop a resilient health system in Nepal


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Contextualizing communications for better impact

Apr 21, 2022

A blog post from Shreeman Sharma of HERD International on designing impactful communications for different audiences


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Health workers on the frontline

Apr 5, 2022

Blog post for World Health Worker Week on the work of Professor Najla Al-Sonboli, a paediatrician working in difficult conditions in Yemen


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The reality of mental health and psychological support in northwest Syria

Feb 15, 2022

Report from a webinar which presented the findings of an assessment of MHPSS service delivery with a focus on frontline workers and access for and relevance to health care workers affected by attacks on health care in Northwest Syria


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Public health: my vocation, my nature

Feb 9, 2022

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Dr Rouham Yamout talks about her life in science and how opportunities for women have changed over her career


A girl in headscarf stands in front of tents in a desert landscape

Health financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings webinars

Jan 25, 2022

Webinars on health financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings run in collaboration with WHO – one in French, the other in English


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Achieving Universal Health Coverage – webinar report back

Jan 12, 2022

Report on THET’s Health Equity for All on this webinar, in collaboration with Action for Global Health and Students for Global Health


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How to attract and retain health workers in rural areas – new paper

Dec 17, 2021

New paper looking at how to attract and retain health workers in rural areas of a fragile state, using findings from a labour market survey in Guinea


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