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Nov 20

Human Resources for Health: Addressing Distribution Inequities – Experience from Philippines

This is the second webinar in our series, which is an ongoing research to develop country case studies on specific aspects of Human Resource for Health, with the aim of understanding insights emerging from initiatives in each country.  The case studies are being developed by institutions within each country. 

Presented by Dr Johanna Banzon Director, Health Human Resources, Department of Health, Government of Philippines. Moderated by Sandhya Venakeswaran, Senior Fellow, CSEP and Dr. Palitha Abeykoon, Advisor, WHO Sri Lanka.

Johanna Solon Banzon is the Director of the Health Human Resources Development Bureau of the Department of Health. As chief of the government’s main health workforce bureau, Director Banzon leads efforts by the Bureau to collaborate with both the supply and demand sectors of the health labor market to ensure adequacy, competence and decent work conditions for the country’s health workers. She has a career in the health sector spanning 31 years.

 
Before joining the department, she was Director of the Knowledge Management Group (KMG) At the start of the pandemic, she was concurrent Director for Health Intelligence and Knowledge Innovations Team which was at the helm of COVID-19 data analysis and reporting for ZFF sites. She was an administrator of the Ateneo de Manila University and a lecturer for the Ateneo Graduate School of Business Health Unit where she taught Managerial Epidemiology, Health Economics and Community Health Administration.

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