About This Project

Establish a binding compact among WHO member states to address global health workforce shortages through coordinated investment, ethical recruitment standards, and bilateral training partnerships. The compact would: require high-income countries to contribute to training in low-income countries in proportion to health worker migration benefits received; establish binding ethical recruitment standards preventing active recruitment from shortage countries; create standardized competency frameworks enabling mutual recognition of health worker qualifications across borders; and capitalize a $20 billion Health Workforce Development Fund.

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