Tag Archives: Ethiopia

MBE for Dr Basiro Davey

Congratulations to Dr Basiro Davey, Deputy Director HEAT (Ethiopia), and Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences who has been made an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to health and higher education. Basiro joined the OU in 1976 after completing a … Continue reading

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HEAT makes health possible

This is the message of the new DVD. Primarily intended for potential funders and partners, the DVD explains that HEAT is a radical programme created by The Open University to transform the education, training and retention of frontline healthcare workers … Continue reading

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The Tigray Region Pilot

In early April the pilot for the Level-IV Health Extension Upgrading Programme started in the Tigray Region.  Since then the 44 students in the pilot cohort have completed the Antenatal Care (ANC) Module and are about to start their 15 days … Continue reading

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BBC features HEAT programme

Programme four from the Health Check team focusses on Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme and went to air on Wednesday 13th April on the BBC World Service. The programme is available as a podcast on the BBC iPlayer. Health Check’s Claudia Hammond reports from … Continue reading

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Dr Tedros Adhanom Receives Humanitarian Award

Dr Tedros Adhanom, Minister of Health for Ethiopia received the 2011 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award at a ceremony held in Pentagon City, Arlington Virginia, USA, on 22 March 2011. The award was presented by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter … Continue reading

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Health Check – Medical Brain Drain

The Open University in partnership with the BBC World Service, present a series of special editions of Health Check, the weekly round-up of global health stories and topical issues in medicine. The series is presented by Claudia Hammond. Episode 3 … Continue reading

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Final Tutor Training Workshop in Adama

Adama was the biggest of the four regional tutor training workshops, with over 60 participants from the Oromia Region.  The training was very well received, and there was lots of enthusiasm for the HEW Upgrading Programme.  However this is the largest of … Continue reading

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Tutor Training Workshop in Hawassa

The third tutor training workshop began 8th February in Hawassa for those who will be implementing the upgrading programme for the Health Extension Workers in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia.  The workshop was very well received. At the … Continue reading

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HEW Upgrading Programme in Dire Dawa

Tutor training for the Health Extension Worker (HEW) Upgrading Programme took place in Dire Dawa 1-4 February. Participants in the workshops were drawn from the Dire Dawa and Harar regions of Ethiopia and included tutors, supervisors and regional health bureau staff. Following the … Continue reading

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First Regional Tutor Training Workshop

The first Regional Tutor Training workshop in Bahar Dar Ethiopia has been a great success.   On Day 1 Mohammed Hussain, FMOH Programme Coordinator, introduced the Health Extension Upgrading Programme for the Federal Ministry of Health. On the second day Dr Basiro … Continue reading

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