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Thomas L. Hall, MD, DrPH
Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
Since the 1960s I have worked (intermittently) to develop and refine health workforce
planning methods and policy formulation. During the 1990s I developed through three
iterations a computer-based health sector planning model that can help inform national
and regional workforce training and deployment policies. Users can explore the effects
of alternative model input assumptions on health worker supply, requirements, costs,
service outputs, productivity, and geographic and sectoral distribution. Three different
projection methods are offered to accommodate different levels of data availability and
desired outputs. I have provided ~25 hands-on WHO workshops to instruct planners
from ~60 countries in use of the models. The models were recently upgraded by WHO
and are now available online for beta testing. I have consulted for WHO, the World
Bank, InterAmerican Bank and USAID.
 Work with others interested in health workforce planning and policy formation /
implementation (via GHECon). I am not now actively involved in the health
workforce planning field but I would be glad to collaborate with others working in
this area.
 Not now relevant. In 2011-12 I collaborated with WHO and Prognoz, a Russian IT
firm under WHO contract, to update the workforce planning simulation model.
 Not now relevant. I have collaborated with many persons in the past, especially in
the UK, several Latin American countries and Thailand.
 Hall TL, and Mejia, A, co editors. Health manpower planning: Principles, methods
and issues, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1978, 311 pp.
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Ministerio de Salud Publica y Consejo Nacional Consultivo de Salud. Recursos
humanos de salud en Chile: Un modelo de analysis, Santiago, 1970, 325 pp. [This
book summarizes the results of a wide variety of supply, demand, cost, productivity
and related studies carried out in Chile during 1968 70. I was the principal consultant
to the project and a major author of the final monograph.]
Hall TL. "Chile health manpower study: Methods and problems," International J.
Health Services 1(2):166 184, 1971
Hall TL. "The political aspects of health planning," Chapt. 6 in, Health planning:
Qualitative aspects and quantitative techniques, Wm. A. Reinke, editor, The Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1972, pp. 73 95. [Updated version printed in 1988.]
I teach in the annual Global Health 101 course offered by UCSF. I also serve as
Education Consultant to the Education Committee of the Consortium of Universities for
Global Health. In this role, and during the 2000-11 period when I was executive director
of the Global Health Education Consortium, I have been extensively involved in
promoting, developing and refining online global health educational resources.
Established: Health workforce planning and projection; modeling and simulation.
My current work in primarily in global health education and only ‘as needed’, in health
workforce planning.