Call for Rapid Response Research on'Health Worker Salaries and Benefits' in Low and Middle Income Countries

The Global Health Workforce Alliance and the Alliance for Health Policy and System Research call for proposals to conduct research on health workforce compensation and benefit in low and middle income countries.This call for proposals is aimed at generating rapid research to feed into the next forum of the Global Health Workforce Alliance, planned for November 2007 in Sub-Saharan Africa, at which grantees would be expected to present their research findings.Proposals are invited across three interlinked areas of research:่
1)patterns and trends of health worker 'salaries and benefits'่
2)determinants of health worker 'salaries and benefits'and่
3)the impact of health worker 'salaries and benefits' on the provision of care.่

Deadline for submission of proposals: March 30th 2007่
For more information, please contact alliance-HPSR@who.int

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