AHEAD end of project evaluation

The AHEAD team is currently conducting our end of project evaluation, with the aim to explore the effectiveness, efficiency and relevance of our activities. We are therefore reaching out to all stakeholders with a survey. Your input would be extremely valuable for us to understand the impact of our project and to better plan our future work to address medical deserts. We would therefore greatly appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes of your time to fill out our survey HERE!

All answers will remain anonymous!

Thank you for your time!

Recording AHEAD webinar on participatory consensus building to tackle medical deserts

How can participatory consensus building contribute to effective collaboration on policy options to tackle medical deserts? During our webinar on January 27th, the partners of the Action for Health and Equity: Addressing medical Deserts (AHEAD), including Wemos, shared their experience with applying AHEAD’s participatory consensus building methodology in workshop sessions with stakeholders in areas affected by medical desertification in Italy, Moldova, the Netherlands, Romania and Serbia. The recording of the webinar is now available HERE: 

It is known from literature that successful implementation of health workforce policies requires strong inter-sectoral governance and consensus building among the different stakeholders involved. The AHEAD partners therefore held sessions with local and national level stakeholders in their countries, applying the methodology to increase the chances of identifying locally owned and sustainable policy solutions to counteract medical deserts and related health workforce challenges. During the webinar, the panelists (consisting of representatives from the AHEAD country teams) shared their lessons learned and experiences with the methodology.

Moderator:
Abdul Azad – post-doctoral lecturer and researcher (VU Athena Institute, Netherlands)

Presenter:
Jessica Coetzer – PhD candidate in Inclusive Healthcare (VU Athena Institute, Netherlands)

Panelists:

• Corinne Hinlopen – Project officer for AHEAD (Wemos, Netherlands)
• Bianca Ferraiolo – Head of the Representative Office to the EU (Cittadinanzattiva, Italy)
• Iulia Visinescu – Research assistant (Center for Health Policies and Services, Romania)
• Sergiu Otgon – Human resources for health expert (National Public Health Agency, Republic of Moldova)
• Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic – Data research analyst and medical doctor (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

With the AHEAD project, we aim to reduce health inequalities by addressing the challenge of medical deserts and medical desertification in Europe. The team behind the project consists of the Center for Health Policies and Services (Romania), Cittadinanza Attiva (Italy), Media Education Centre (Serbia), National School for Public Health Management (Moldova), Wemos (lead partner organisation – Netherlands), and VU Athena Institute (Netherlands). Visit the AHEAD website for more information: www.ahead.health.

.HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY COLLABORATE ON TACKLING MEDICAL DESERTS WITH PARTICIPATORY CONSENSUS BUILDING

How can participatory consensus building contribute to effective collaboration on policy options to tackle medical deserts? During an upcoming webinar on January 27th, the partners of the Action for Health and Equity: Addressing medical Deserts (AHEAD), including Wemos, will share their experience with applying AHEAD’s participatory consensus building methodology in workshop sessions with stakeholders in areas affected by medical desertification in Italy, Moldova, the Netherlands, Romania and Serbia.

It is known from literature that successful implementation of health workforce policies requires strong inter-sectoral governance and consensus building among the different stakeholders involved. The AHEAD partners therefore held sessions with local and national level stakeholders in their countries, applying the methodology to increase the chances of identifying locally owned and sustainable policy solutions to counteract medical deserts and related health workforce challenges.

Join our webinar on January 27th, during which:

We will share the AHEAD participatory consensus building methodology and explain how it can be applied.
Representatives from the AHEAD country teams will share their experience with applying our methodology in Italy, Moldova, the Netherlands, Romania and Serbia.

Moderator:
Abdul Azad – post-doctoral lecturer and researcher (VU Athena Institute, Netherlands).

Presenter:
Jessica Coetzer – PhD candidate in Inclusive Healthcare (VU Athena Institute, Netherlands).

Date: Friday, January 27th, 2023
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM (CET)
Language: English
Please register here (Zoom).

We look forward to seeing you on the 27th!