The Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health organized the 8th AAAH conference in Weihai city China from October 27- 31, 2014. The theme of the 8th Conference was “Move ahead: Strengthening HRH strategies and action towards UHC in post-2015 era”
Dr. Kawkab Mahmud and Dr. Lal Rawal from the Centre of Excellence for UHC, JPG SPH, BRAC University participated in the conference. Dr. Kawkab has had been invited as a speaker in Parallel Session 7 on ‘Health professional education reform: ANHER movement’ and Parallel Session 9 ‘Emerging role of private health professional schools in the Asia Pacific Region’. Dr. Rawal was invited as a speaker in the session on Rural retention policy analysis.
27 countries of Asia Pacific region participated in the conference. Each country representatives include policy makers and researchers.