International Health Workforce Collaborative 2019
The International Health Workforce Collaborative (IHWC) conferences brings together policy makers, academics, researchers and practitioners from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom with responsibility for and interests in medical workforce issues. It includes approximately 20 delegates from each of these countries and guests from several other countries and organizations.
Participation in this conference is by invitation only. Invitees are responsible for their travel, accommodation and conference registration expenses.
The 18th International Health Workforce Collaborative (IHWC) Conference will take place on October 22-24, 2019 in Ottawa, Canada at the Telfer School of Management, located at 55 Laurier Avenue East.
A pre-conference day (October 21st, 2019) focused on health workforce data challenges will take place at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada at 774 Echo Drive.
This year’s conference program will focus on scaling up health workforce innovations to promote equity, diversity and inclusion. Following a pre-conference day featuring country responses to a series of data challenges, the conference will feature a series of plenary panels will present a suite of tools across four levers for change that can be mobilized to enable scale-up of health workforce innovations:
- Education & Training
- Funding, Financing & Remuneration
- Governance & Regulation
- Data & IT Infrastructure
Throughout the conference, working groups will apply the tools presented in each of these four panels to conduct an in-depth exploration of health workforce scenarios including:
- Innovative Educational Models to Increase Indigenous Representation in the Health Workforce
- Apprenticeship-Based Education
- What is the ideal primary care workforce?
- Effects of competitive organizational behaviour on health service providers’ capacity to secure and sustain an appropriate health workforce for rural communities
Event Schedule
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Meeting Location
Country Scenario Policy Briefs
- Canadian Scenario: Supporting Indigenous Health Workforce Participation and Career Advancement
- United States Scenario: Assessing the Best Uses of Apprenticeshipts in Health Care
- United Kingdom Scenario: Primary Care Workforce in the UK: Increasing the Flow and Plugging the Leaks
- Australia/New Zealand Scenario: Achieving Collaboration of Health Service Providers to Improve Rural Health Workforce Outcomes
Policy Lever Presentations
Education & Training
- Differential Attainment - Jane Cannon (UK)
- Education and Training as a Lever for Change in American Healthcare - Daniel Bustillo (US)
Funding, Financing & Remuneration
- Social Commissioning for Health Outcomes - Des Gorman (NZ)
- Finance, Funding and Remuneration a U.S. Perspective - Sue Birch (US)
- Introducing performance pay for primary care practitioners: unintended consequences for gender equity? - Neeru Gupta (CND)
Governance & Regulation
- Governance and Regulation - Jeane Moore (US)
- Health Inequity and Cultural Safety - Christopher Robertson (AU)
Data & IT Infrastructure
- Turas Data Intelligence Workforce Planning in the Cloud - Christopher Wroath (Scotland)
- Bonded Medical Program - Maureen McCarty (AU)
- Barriers and Facilitators to Evidence Based Health Workforce Policies - Maria Mathews (CND)
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