[Forwarded from the HRH e-Update of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and WHO website: http://who.int/hrh/resources/globstrathrh-2030/en/ ]

A draft of the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 is now online for public consultation until 31 August, 2015.  

Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030

DRAFT for consultation

Publication details

Number of pages: 30

Publication date: July 2015

Languages: English

The zero draft of the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 forms the basis of consultations with WHO Regions, Member States and other partners in the period June – August 2015. This global dialogue will inform the continuing improvement of the draft and a final version to be submitted to the WHO Executive Board in January 2016.

WHO has been setting the agenda on health workforce issues since the World Health Report 2006 – Working Together for Health, which generated unprecedented attention to human resources for health (HRH). The report called for a decade of action on HRH, and acted as a catalyst for numerous policy initiatives and the adoption of several resolutions on this matter: WHA63.16 – WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (2010); WHA64.6 – Health workforce strengthening (2011); WHA64.7 – Strengthening nursing and midwifery (2011); WHA66.23 – Transforming health workforce education in support of universal health coverage (2013), and; WHA67.24 – Follow-up of the Recife Political Declaration on Human Resources for Health: renewed commitments towards universal health coverage (2014). The 68th World Health Assembly in 2015 reiterated the centrality of the health workforce across different areas of work of WHO, including the discourse on resilient health systems and the resolutions on surgical care and the global emergency health workforce, among others.

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