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The role of close-to-community (CTC) providers for health system development

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This thematic series series addresses strengthening and developing the roles of close-to-community (CTC) providers for health systems development

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Human Resources for Health is ready to receive manuscripts on all aspects concerning the information, planning, production, management and governance of human resources for health - particularly those of international relevance.

In memoriam

The Editors of Human Resources for Health are sorry to announce the death of our Editorial Board member Tom Hall.

Thomas Livingston Hall, MD, DrPH
August 13, 1931 – May 20, 2017

His health-related career involved providing clinical services in rural Puerto Rico, working on national health workforce planning with the World Health Organization, directing a population studies center at UNC, directing a health care planning office in Seattle, and several years of health planning in New Zealand. In 1986 he came to San Francisco, and from 1988 to 1996 he directed a postdoctoral training program in HIV/AIDS prevention research at UCSF. After retirement he volunteered to teach and mentor in global health and until his death, he worked with the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. traveled extensively internationally for both work (with WHO, USAID, World Bank) and pleasure.

See more from the University of California, San Francisco:
In Memoriam: Tom Hall, UCSF Epidemiologist and Global Health Pioneer: https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/news/memoriam-tom-hall-ucsf-epidemiologist-and-global-health-pioneer

Editor-in-Chief

Mario Dal Poz, University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

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Mario Roberto Dal Poz, Editor-in-Chief

Mario Roberto Dal Poz is a full Professor and former deputy director of the Social Medicine Institute at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He coordinated the Human Resources for Health team at the World Health Organization (WHO) from 2000 to 2012.

Dr Dal Poz, has worked in the area of health systems for over 30 years, gaining vast experience in the development of human resources at regional, national and international levels. He has an MSc in Social Medicine with a focus on health delivery models in the context of the growing urbanization in Brazil, and a PhD in Public Health with the elaboration of a new methodology for policy analysis of human resources for health development.

His current interests include issues related to human resources for health (HRH) development, health system reform, HRH policy and planning implementation and evaluation at national and sub-national level, education and migration of health professionals.

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