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Partners from all sectors come together to envision better
health for mothers and infants
 CHL, along with the Health Communication
Partnership (HCP) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for
Population and Reproductive Health based at Johns Hopkins
University hosted a 3-day workshop on health communication
leadership, with content focusing on post-partum care. The
workshop was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Garden City from
April 17th – 19th, 2005, with over thirty
participants representing counterparts in the Ministry of Health
and Population and State Information Services as well as project
partners Family Health International, Save the Children, NAMRU,
and Catalyst. Ms. Kathryn Panther, MOHP Undersecretaries Dr.
Esmat Mansour, Dr. Yehia Hadid, and Dr. Nasr El Sayed, and Mr.
Nabil El Shal, SIS Undersecretary, showed their support for the
event and participated in several segments of the workshop.
International trainers Benjamin Lozare and
Henry Mosley, from the Johns Hopkins University-Bloomberg School
of Public Health, presented advanced leadership concepts for
guiding programmatic and institutional change. Participants were
challenged to “confront the dragons” standing between their
vision and their current reality, and acknowledge the various
levels of constraints that were preventing them from achieving
better results. Teams worked together to present innovative
ideas that provoked lively discussion around ways to ensure
community participation in the design and implementation of
national health programs to ensure maternal and infant survival.
“This workshop really made a personal
difference to me,” commented one participant, who shared his
renewed enthusiasm and motivation for his work in engaging the
private sector in national health initiatives.
“I would like to see this course repeated
to all of the stakeholders, from the highest government levels
to the service providers and clients at the community level,”
commented another participant, a health systems policy analyst. |
