DOH, USAID launch e-learning platform for health workers

The Department of Health (DOH), in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), launched on Friday an e-learning platform for the country’s health workers.

“The DOH Academy’s e-learning platform allows health workers to access learning modules anytime and anywhere. This will save travel time and enable trainers and health workers to spend more time attending to their patients,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said.

The e-learning platform, the first of its kind in the Philippines, went live Friday during a ceremony led by Duque and USAID Acting Mission Director Patrick Wesner in Pasay City.

“USAID believes that innovation presents new opportunities to respond to critical development challenges that impact millions of people around the world,” Wesner said.

USAID, through its Human Resources for Health 2030 Project in the Philippines, took the lead in developing the web portal and transferred its administration to DOH in September 2019.

Both agencies collaborated in developing e-learning modules on tuberculosis, family planning, adolescent health, and data governance.

The DOH and USAID also co-developed a module that explains the Universal Health

Care Law and its implications for health workers.

Wesner praised the DOH for allocating resources to manage the online system and to produce 20 additional e-learning modules to improve the skills of Filipino health workers.

“We are proud of our partnership with the DOH to develop an e-learning platform as an alternative training method to bolster the competencies of Filipino health workers across the country,” he said.