Health Infrastructure and Technology (World Health Organization)
Development and updating of tools for managing health infrastructure and technology (HIT) in WHO programs and countries
Services provided:
- Prepared background paper for the inception meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Health Technology;
- Served as rapporteur at the meeting;
- Provided advice on what effective national health technology and health technology management (HTM) programs and systems should ideally entail;
– what tools are needed to strengthen and optimize them;
– what tools (WHO and non-WHO) exist/are available;
– what are the challenges/problems in tools’ country application/implementation and wide availability, are these tools up-to-date or have gaps in their content /do not reflect current priorities and knowledge, and thus need review / revision / update;
– what specific areas are nor covered by existing tools at all and thus require the development of new tools;
– what WHO should do about this, when and how;
– who WHO’s prime partners are in this work; etc.