We, the member international locations of the Group of Associates of the WHO Academy, reaffirm our dedication to assist the WHO Academy, a necessary device for strengthening the abilities and competencies of human assets for well being, so as to obtain common well being protection and enhance international entry to high quality well being companies.
We’re dedicated to selling the WHO Academy in related worldwide fora and our bodies, similar to G20, OECD, and related UN companies … notably via joint statements, thereby strengthening the worldwide name for better funding within the well being and care workforce.
We anticipate the varied companions and stakeholders to assist the Academy, in shut coordination with the WHO Secretariat and its regional and nationwide workplaces, via varied doable choices that will embrace: funding, secondment of expert employees, political assist, cooperation, provision of strategic steerage and many others. This assist ought to allow the Academy to attain its aims and strengthen its integration into the worldwide well being structure. We additionally encourage companions to assist the Academy to play a task in strengthening WHO within the context of total challenges to consolidate efforts and set priorities.
We encourage healthcare professionals worldwide to totally utilise this useful resource to accumulate up to date data of rising medical proof, new pointers, important merchandise, and instruments to handle each present and future well being challenges effectively.
Our dedication relies on numerous convictions:
We firmly consider that the COVID-19 pandemic has severely uncovered the profound vulnerabilities of our well being programs, underscoring the pressing want for sturdy well being programs and resilient well being workforces;
We affirm the significance of shut, cross-sectoral collaboration and dedication to assist preliminary and lifelong coaching of well being employees and to advertise the dissemination of dependable, scientific evidence-based public well being data globally.
We acknowledge the anticipated international scarcity of well being employees — which may exceed 10 million by 2030 — in addition to the necessity to improve the abilities and competencies of the prevailing workforce to satisfy the necessities for common well being protection, as set out within the Sustainable Improvement Objectives.
We recall that the Excessive-Degree Assembly of the United Nations Normal Meeting on common well being protection in September 2023 highlighted the necessity to prepare and develop the abilities of healthcare professionals worldwide.
With these convictions and this imaginative and prescient, we renew our unwavering assist for the WHO Academy, which we think about to be a necessary pillar for constructing a future the place everybody can entry high quality healthcare.
Members of the Group of Associates of the WHO Academy
Belgium, Benin, Canada, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Chile, Congo Brazzaville, Croatia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Haiti, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Luxemburg, Norway, Qatar, Rwanda, Republic of Korea, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom
Member Worldwide Organizations of the Group of Associates of the WHO Academy
Commonwealth, Worldwide Group of La Francophonie (OIF)
