Investing in health professional education
Dr Vanessa Kerry, CEO of Seed Global Health, calls on Commonwealth governments to invest in transforming and scaling up health professional education to help address the shortage of health workers…
The critical role of the pharmaceutical workforce in achieving UHC
Victoria Rutter, Executive Director of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association and Dr Catherine Duggan, CEO of the International Pharmaceutical Federation, together assert that Commonwealth countries must advance the capacity and capability…
Global nurse retention and ethical recruitment
Professor Kathleen McCourt, President of the Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation, looks at strategies to fill the acute shortage of nurses across the Commonwealth, including international health worker mobility and…
Empowering nurses to help deliver UHC
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Co-Chair of UHC2030, emphasises the vital work of nurses in delivering health for all, but highlights the alarming deficiency in the number of trained nurses around the…
Health worker mobility: Challenges and opportunities for the Commonwealth
Francesca Colombo, Head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Health Division, reviews the latest data on the continuous international movement of health workers and explores the challenges…
Investing in health workers to achieve the SDGs
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Health Workforce. In this compelling piece, acknowledging the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife in 2020, the former…
Addressing the Pacific’s biggest killers
Dr Colin Tukuitonga, who recently completed his final term as Director-General of the Pacific Community (SPC), discusses why the Pacific is taking an integrated approach to tackling noncommunicable diseases –…