Health workforce: Time to act!
The main conclusion of the webinar How to respond more effectively to the healthcare workforce crisis: international evidence and national examples, which brought together various experts in the field on 29th May, was the need for an immediate and permanent effort to foster attention to the healthcare workforce, with combined action at research level and the development of integrated partnerships to help reinforce the centrality of this issue on the agenda of political decision-makers.
With more than 350 registrants from 23 countries, five continents and multiple universities, organisations and international agencies, the session was moderated by Ellen Kulman (Goethe-University Frankfurt) and Tiago Correia (IHMT/NOVA), and the panel included Gemma Williams (London School of Economics, UK), Prarthna Dayal (University of Melbourne, Australia), Gulin Gedik (WHO Office of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Egypt), Ivy Bourgeault (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Tara Lamont (University of Cambridge, UK), experts who reinforced the importance of the health workforce and the need to raise awareness on this matter.
Part of the webinar series The Workforce Crisis in Healthcare: Moving the Debate to Bridge Evidence and Policy, the initiative was promoted by the International Journal of Health Planning and Management, the Health Workforce Research (EUPHA-HWR) section of EUPHA and the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Policy and Planning/Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – NOVA University Lisbon (WHOCC IHMT NOVA).
This series of debates emerge from the themed issue published by the International Journal of Health Planning and Management (2024, 39(3): 605-969). The next webinar, The ‘permacrises’ and its exacerbating effects of the healthcare workforce crisis, will take place on 7th June (18h, CET). Participation is free of charge but requires prior registration.
