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A New Vision for the Health Workforce: Addressing NCDs, global health security and emergencies 

September 23, 2025 @ 8:00 am – 10:30 am
The global health workforce is in crisis. As the world faces multiple overlapping challenges to health, including the escalating burden of noncommunicable diseases, the threat of pandemics and humanitarian crises caused by conflict, climate, economic distress and other emergencies, and the rising global toll on mental health, the demands on health workers have intensified. Yet, support for the health workforce has not kept pace, dramatically compromising access to critical health services for communities around the world, threatening global health security, endangering economic stability and compromising progress toward development targets.

The time to act is now. With a predicted global shortage of 11 million health workers by 2030, ensuring resilient and responsive health systems to meet the needs of communities requires greater and smarter investments in the health workforce. Pragmatic, sustainable solutions. that leverage technology to maximize efficiencies and impact are necessary to address the health workforce challenge. This includes fair pay, mental health support, professional development, and safer working environments for nurses, doctors, community health workers, pharmacists, epidemiologists and their colleagues across all cadres. Investments in health workers yield exponential returns, from economic stability to climate resilience, gender equity and social stability and, of course, the actualization of high-level political commitments to advancing health in every community across the world. When health workers flourish, each one of us reaps the benefits.

But what will this look like? How can we re-envision the future of the health workforce?

We ask organizations to register no more than three participants for in-person attendance, but we encourage virtual engagement.

Details

Organizer

  • Frontline Health Workers Coalition, CARE USA, Johnson & Johnson, Smile Train, Living Goods, Project HOPE, Seed Global Health, CMMB, Operation Smile, Partners In Health

Venue

  • Harvard Club
  • 35 West 44th Street
    New York, NY 10036 United States     + Google Map