Institute for International Health and Development - IIHD

Short Courses

Workforce Planning

This module prepares participants to advance their competence in preparing workforce plans at national, regional and organisational level. Participants will become familiar and competent with the various planning tools and models available to health planners, and be able to prepare high quality evidence based workplans.

The module will be practical in orientation offering students multiple opportunities to use different tools, software and techniques.

Content will include:

• workforce planning process
• work study methods
• demand and supply side issues impacting on plans
• workload based methods - WISN (or BirthRate+)
• facilitybased methods - skill mix, task shifting, reprofiling
• HR metrics
• data and information needed for workforce planning
• data collection and management

Credit Rating: 15 SCOTCAT