Investing in competency-based education for UHC

Jim Campbell is the Director of the Health Workforce Department at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He oversees the development and implementation of global public goods, evidence and tools to inform investment
in the education, employment and retention of the health and care workforce in pursuit of global health security, universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals.  His portfolio includes measuring the impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and care workforce, implementation of WHO’s Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030, and support to countries within the Working for Health action plan to implement the
recommendations of the UN High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. He coordinates the Global Health Workforce Network engaging member states and all relevant partners in WHO’s work, with special focus on
the contributions, rights and roles of women and youth in the health and care sector.  He has published extensively, is a member of the Editorial Board of the Human Resources for Health Journal and provides advisory inputs to
multi-sectoral programmes on COVID-19 recovery, social spending, education and employment.

Siobhan Fitzpatrick is Technical Officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva. Since joining the Health Workforce Department in 2018, she has led the development of the Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for
UHC. The framework has since been adopted by the WHO Academy to underpin the provision of its lifelong learning programmes and provided the foundations for other competency-based education efforts including in sexual and reproductive
health and refugee and migrant health. She coordinates the Global Health Workforce Network Education Hub and provides technical advice on strengthening health worker education across a number of areas including human resources for
health leadership and management.

Address Mauakowa Malata is the Vice-Chancellor of Malawi University of Science and Technology, former President of Africa Honor Society of Nursing of Sigma Theta Tau International; former Vice President, International
Confederation of Midwives, former Principal of Kamuzu College of Nursing which she spearheaded for it to become a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Inter Professional Education and Leadership in 2016. She is a Virginia
Henderson Fellow of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN); a Global Health Fellow at University of California San Francisco University;
an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine. She is an advocate for girls and women empowerment through education. Her research work focuses on maternal and newborn health, quality
of care, health workforce and innovation and technology.

Rajeev Sadanandan is the CEO of Health System Transformation Platform, a think tank on Health Policy and Systems in New Delhi. He had worked as health secretary of Kerala state, CEO of Rashtriy Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY),
India’s national social health insurance programme in addition to holding many other positions in state and central governments. Rajeev worked for a brief stint in UNAIDS and has been a member of technical committees set up by
UNAIDS and WHO. Recently he was Advisor to the Chief Minister of Kerala on Management of COVID and is currently one of the Commissioners on the Lancet Global Health Commission on Financing Primary Health Care. His research interests
include redesigning of organization and financing of health care. His organization is engaged in a study to define and build clinical and leadership competencies to improve primary care.