Today, at the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva, health ministers from around the world unanimously adopted the first-ever Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030.

IntraHealth International announces the creation of its new Policy and Technical Advisory Council.

In conflict zones around the world, health care workers and facilities are under relentless attack, according to a new report “No Protection, No Respect” from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition.

Today the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution condemning attacks on health workers and facilities, such as those last week and even today in Aleppo, Syria.

Dr. Kate Tulenko, VP of health systems innovation at IntraHealth International, reports on Zika, and discusses why efforts from the health care force have remained slow. 

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A new article published in Human Resources for Health identifies 13 interventions considered to have transformational potential to address gender-related obstacles in health education programs.

Yale graduate Catherine Cheney works for Devex, covering the West Coast global development community. In 2016, Cheney came to IntraHealth International's annual SwitchPoint conference presenting on solutions journalism. Her article "Why we all need to ask: Who's doing it better?" is adapted from that presentation.

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The Times-News, a newspaper based in Burlington, N.C., covered IntraHealth International's annual SwitchPoint conference in Saxapahaw, N.C. The conference is a two-day event that meets at the Haw River Ballroom. 

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SAXAPAHAW — When IntraHealth International, a health organization based in Chapel Hill whose influence reaches healthcare workers in more than 100 countries, was looking for a place to hold an annual conference, they wanted something a bit different.