Building a Health Workforce: Ensuring Continuity of Care amid Crises

Health workers are the backbone of resilient health systems, yet crises such as disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and conflict place significant strain on the workforce and disrupt essential health services.

Hosted by the Health workers are the backbone of resilient health systems, yet crises such as disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and conflict place significant strain on the workforce and disrupt essential health services.

Hosted by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, CARE, Johnson & Johnson, the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth, Global Communities, Partners In Health, Project HOPE, Operation Smile, and Smile Train, this event will explore how investments in decent work, retention, protection, and support can strengthen health workers’ ability to sustain and restore critical services during and after shocks.

Building a sustainable and resilient health workforce is essential to advancing universal health coverage, providing crucial health services, and strengthening global health security.