USAID and the MOH collaborated to improve health workforce management in Timor-Leste, focusing on job descriptions and evaluations. Moving forward, in-person training and institutionalization are recommended for sustainable implementation, aiming to enhance health care services and employee development.

LHSS Colombia collaborated with national and local health authorities to address the mental health challenges exacerbated by the pandemic and mixed migration.

With increased migration around the world posing unique challenges and opportunities for health systems, efforts to better integrate and include migrants and host communities in national health systems are an integral part of the global health equity agenda. 

This brief introduces the social determinants of health (SDOH) concept and terminology, and discusses approaches to addressing SDOH. Understanding these root causes of health inequities and their impact on health care access, quality, and equity is crucial to strengthening health systems.

This brief introduces collaborative learning as an effective approach to support sustainable health system strengthening. Collaborative learning brings together local leaders and experts to learn from one another, problem-solve, co-create new knowledge, and adapt and apply their learning.

Stakeholders describe how they work with local municipalities to build healthy communities for all migrants.

Local leaders share valuable perspectives on migration and the role of a robust health systems in enhancing equitable access to quality health care for everyone.

Key stakeholders in Barranquilla, Colombia provide valuable insights on the importance of quality health care for migrants and their families. 

This brief identifies systems considerations for CHW career progression, including health workforce education and training, regulation and policy, management, and financing.

In this video, discover how local organizations in Cali work to strengthen capacity, promote sustainability, and improve access to health information related to the country’s health system.

To strengthen capacities and promote equitable access to the Colombian health care system, LHSS and the Healthy Communities program forged several high-impact partnerships in Bogotá. These partnerships focused on supporting the integration process of the migrant population, host communities, and returning Colombians into the country’s health system. This video highlights beneficiaries and partners impacted by this effort.

This video features the efforts of LHSS Colombia grantees to promote inclusion of the migrant population in the health system through a community leadership initiative to improve the provision of maternal health care in the Riohacha District and strengthen the overall capacity of the Colombian health system.

This video provides highlights from a national meeting on migration and health held on April 27, 2023.

This learning brief captures LHSS’s experience in supporting municipal-level partners through the contracting process and distills emerging lessons to inspire other municipalities to pursue public-private partnerships as a vehicle for expanding access to urban PHC services.

This brief presents what LHSS has learned through applying a systems thinking approach to its support for HSCs’ advocacy efforts in expanding PHC services in urban Bangladesh.