Webinar Recording: Skilling Asia's Healthcare Workforce

Almost all countries in Asia and the Pacific, irrespective of their level of development, have embraced the goal of working towards Universal Health Coverage, promoting better health services and healthier living. Providing quality health and care requires investments in infrastructure, technology, medical goods, system reform, and human resources. Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will require investments in job creation, and across the social sectors. Building knowledge, commitment, and identifying innovative opportunities is an important step.

Erum Mariam

Erum Mariam is the Executive Director of BRAC IED (Institute of Educational Development) BRAC University, in Bangladesh. Mariam completed her PhD in Education from Cambridge University in 2008. She has extensive experience in scaling up education interventions both nationally and globally and was involved in the expansion of the unique BRAC-run Non-Formal Primary (NFP) Schools in the 1990s. Since 2008, Mariam has promoted BRAC IED’s vision of contributing to the improvement of quality, equity, and efficiency in the education system in partnership with the public sector.

Anant Agarwal

Dr. Agarwal is the founder and CEO of edX. He taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. A successful serial entrepreneur, he co-founded several companies.

Carol Dweck

Dr. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She is the originator of theory and research  on fixed and growth mindsets. Her research examines the origins of these mindsets, their role in motivation, and their impact on achievement and well-being. Prior to her current position, Dr. Dweck was professor at the Department of Psychology at Columbia University and professor at the Laboratory of Human Development, Harvard University. She obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University. Dr.

Patricia Kuhl

Patricia Katherine Kuhl (born Mitchell, South Dakota, November 5, 1946) is a Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and co-director of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. She specializes in language acquisition and the neural bases of language, and she has also conducted research on language development in autism and computer speech recognition.