COVID-19 is and will exploit the inequities of resources throughout the world. Human resources for health will be critical to mounting an adequate response, yet many low resource settings lack the health workers needed to manage their current burdens of disease, much less the looming burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world scales its global COVID-19 response, we have a unique and critically important opportunity to build resiliency, systems and impact that can far outlast the current moment. The training, networks and capacity that we implement today can serve primary care, maternal child health and other existing and critical needs in the future.
Although COVID-19 poses a unique challenge in LMICs, it also presents an opportunity for the global healthcare community, public and private partners to come together to support the workforce in LMICs in creative and unprecedented ways. We see an exciting opportunity to help countries transform their health systems for years to follow.
Join Seed Global Health CEO Dr. Vanessa Kerry, Dr. Arthur Kwizera, Dr. Harry Chen and Loyce Pace for an informative and interactive discussion on what COVID-19 means for low-resource settings and our human resources for health enablement throughout the world, with a targeted focus on LMICs. Panelists will also share early success stories seen in sub-Saharan Africa, of how countries are mobilizing quickly to meet this challenge head on.