Challenges, Opportunities and the Cost of Training Health Workers
Insights from a Health Workforce Analysis
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Professor Oladimeji BolarinwaEpidemiologist / Public Health Physician
About this webinar
Nigeria continues to face persistent health workforce shortages that undermine access to quality health services and health outcomes. At the core of the workforce challenge is pre-service training, the primary source of health workforce entry.
The Nigeria Health Workforce Analysis (HWFA) is the first comprehensive assessment of the challenges and cost of training the health workforce in Nigeria.
Learning objectives
- Report the identified gaps in institutions' training capabilities and resource limitations.
- Discuss the estimated cost of health workforce production in Nigeria.
- Demonstrate health workforce pipeline modelling to forecast the scale-up and costs of training.
- Highlight emerging health workforce and cadre needs based on changes in population, disease burden and technology.
- Demonstrate an investment case for scaling up health worker production to meet health workforce needs.
About the speakers
Professor of Public Health and Community Health Physician at the University of Ilorin and University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), with over 25 years of experience. His research focuses on developing evidence-based health system strategies. He has co-authored more than 100 research articles with over 5,000 citations, an h-index of 24 and an i10-index of 40.
He has been a Bernard Lown Visiting Scholar in the Cardiovascular Health Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health since 2017, and received the school's 2023 Bogle Award. He is the Principal Investigator of the Nigeria Health Workforce Analytic Study.
Registration details
- Date
- Thursday, 5 November 2026
- Time
- 2PM UTC, 3PM WAT, 4PM CAT, 5PM EAT
- Duration
- 60 mins
- CPD points
- 1