- September 3, 2025
Human Resources for Health: Strengthening Competence and Compassion- Workshop Report
Colombo, Sri Lanka
The report notes unequal health workforce distribution, rural-urban gaps, and reliance on foreign-trained staff in South and South-East Asia. Reforms focus on modernized education, digital tools, stronger regulation, and community accountability. Yet, weak private sector oversight, poor infrastructure, and uneven implementation hinder equity and quality.
- August 31, 2025
Strategic Management of Human Resources for Health: Building Competence and Compassion through Systemic Changes
Colombo, Sri Lanka
WHO SEARO and TACHS co-hosted a Regional HRH Workshop in Colombo (July 2025), bringing together stakeholders across Asia. Dr. Borwornsom Leerapan’s synthesis stressed strengthening education, retention, accountability, and workforce planning through systems thinking and regional cooperation.
- January 1, 2025
Health Networks and Platforms in Asia: A Background Analysis for The Asian Collective for Health Systems
TACHS
As a precursor to the launch of the Collective, a landscaping exercise was carried out to examine the existing networks and platforms in Asia in order to inform the need, objectives and vision of the Asian Collective based on the gaps and areas for further strengthening identified through analysis.
- July 3, 2025
Regional Workshop on Human Resources for Health: Strengthening Competence and Compassion
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Co-organized by The Asian Collective for Health System and WHO SEARO
- 27 April 27, 2025
World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2025 Panel: Strengthening Regional Institutions and Collaborations for Advancing Health in Asia
New Delhi, India
Co-organized by The Asian Collective for Health System and Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Who We Are
The Asian Collective for Health Systems
It is a multi-stakeholder platform spanning government, development agencies, academia, and civil society — to strengthen knowledge-sharing and regional collaboration on health across Asia.
- Areas of Work
Primary
Healthcare
Primary healthcare (PHC) is the cornerstone of equitable and resilient health systems, especially in South and Southeast Asia’s diversity, rural-urban disparities, and varying infrastructure.
Climate
and Health
South and Southeast Asia are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, experiencing rising temperatures, increased frequency of extreme weather events, and escalating vector-borne diseases.
Geopolitics & Global Health Diplomacy
The pandemic underscored a paradox: as health cooperation becomes more critical in a deeply interconnected world, trust in global structures has reached historic lows.
- Focus Region
The Asian Collective for Health Systems focuses on the South and Southeast Asia region.
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