Pacific Human Resources for Health Alliance (PHRHA)
Member profile
The Pacific Human Resources for Health Alliance (PHRHA) is the regional body dedicated to identifying and implementing strategic measures to strengthen HRH capacities in the Pacific region. It brings together national governments, international agencies and other stakeholders in the health sector. Human Resources for Health (HRH) play a pivotal role in strengthening health systems. Limited HRH is widely recognised as an impediment to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (WHO 2006; UN 2008). Health Ministers of Pacific Island Countries have committed themselves and their governments to implementing strategic measures to strengthen their national HRH capacities and address the varied health workforce challenges they face.
Main activities
The PHRHA works on teh following main activities:
- HRH in the Pacific advocated for and facilitated trough effective partnership and coordinated approaches
- Support evidence-based HRH policy, planning, strategy development and leadership and management in the Pacific island countries
- Establish HRH information hub for Pacific island countries
- Facilitate HRH capacity building, quality of training institutions and networking
Links to the health workforce crisis
The key areas the ministers have agreed to focus attention include collation and use of reliable HRH data to inform policy, strengthening of effective health workforce planning and management systems, and scaling up education and training of the health workforce to meet current shortages.
