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Brain Drain Seminar
The North/South Coalition invites to seminar on Brain Drain:
 

"The Health Personnel Crisis in Rich and Poor Countries: Institution & Capacity Building"

Tromsø 17th of november 2008, 09:00 – 16:00



Objectives of the seminar

  • Enhance knowledge on the brain drain issue in the health sector.

  • Increase understanding and perform analysis of the challenges.

  • Compare North and South perspectives.

  • Discuss strategies for Health Institution and Capacity Building.

 

Target audience

  • Health workers with an interest in international health issues

  • Employees and students of the University and University College of Tromsø, and the University Hospital.

  • Representatives of trade unions, professional associations, NGOs, health and research institutions

  • Interested people from Northern Norway

  • Local and national media

 

Background

The migration of health workers from developing to developed countries is a huge challenge in endeavors to make good and affordable health services available to the world’s poorest. In the fight against HIV/AIDS and other main killers, health personnel play a crucial role. Without the preventive and curative work of doctors and other health professionals, an unnecessary high number of people die every day because of infectious and non-communicable diseases.

Health systems in developing countries are loosing their capacities. Many countries experience that their health professionals have drifted to developed countries in search of better income opportunities. In Malawi, for example, more than half of their few trained doctors have emigrated. On the other side, there are countries like UK with about one third of doctors and a even higher proportion of nursing staff coming from abroad.

Norway, too, has a lot of health workers from other countries and is still demanding more. The Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD) and the Foreign Affairs Ministry (UD) are in a search for sustainable and ethical solutions to the brain drain of health personnel from poor to rich countries.

 

Preliminary Program


Date: Monday, 17 November 2008

Time: 09.00-16.00

Place: UB – Auditorium, University of Tromsø, Norway

 

08.45-09.15

Coffee & registration

 

 

09.15-09.30

Opening of the seminar

 

09.30-10.00

  • Global Brain drains and Care drains: Examples from North and South. Lise Isaksen Widding, Professor in sociology University of Bergen

10.00-10.30

  • South`s perspective: What are we doing to address this problem? Dr E. Appiah-Denkyira, Director of Human Resource - Ministry of Health, Ghana

 

10.30-10.40

Coffee break

 

 

10.40-11.05

 

11.05-11.10

  • What Norway as a country is doing and can possibly do. Bjarne Garden, NORAD

  • Example of health exchange program. Hans Inge Corneliussen, The Norwegian Fredskorpset

11.10-11.45

Questions & remarks

 

 

11.45-12.30

Lunch

 

 

12.30-12.55

  • The role of academy to address the health crisis caused by brain drain from the South to the North? Dr. John Osei-Tutu, NTNU

12.55-13.20

  • Tromsø experience in institutional capacity building in the health sector using the local manpower and knowledge. Prof. Inger Njølstad, Faculty of Medicine, UiT

13.20-14.00

Questions & Remarks

 

 

14.00- 14.15

Coffee break

 

 

14.15-14.35

  • What is brain theft & How political youth organization works to address this problem? Åshild Leirset, Changemaker in Norway

14.35-15.00

  • Film screening: The Silent killer. Benjamin Ocaya, Uganda

15.00-15.45

Questions & Remarks

 

 

15.45-16.00

Summing up: a panel

 

 

  

Registration: Please register your participation to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Deadline: 10 November 2008

 

No entrance fee.

 

Organizers:

The North/South Coalition at the University of Tromsø in collaboration with The Red Cross, the University College Tromsø, the University Hospital North Norway and Medical Peace Work Initiative Tromsø. The seminar is financially supported by The Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD).

 

Contact person: Rachel Issa Djesa 77646907 / 90612608, http://www.idegruppen.no

 
 
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