Health workforce mobility: Navigating migration, retention and sustainability

Growing international mobility of health workers presents increasingly complex challenges for countries across the Region, including workforce shortages, retention, ethical recruitment and health system sustainability. This webinar will bring together country, regional and global perspectives to explore current mobility trends and policy approaches to retention and ethical recruitment.

At this webinar, you will: 

• Gain insights into current trends in the international mobility of nurses and midwives and their implications for health systems;
• Learn about the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel and approaches to ethical recruitment; and
• Hear country experiences and explore policy responses related to workforce retention, return and reintegration.

Who should attend

National policy-makers and planners working on health workforce and human resources for health (HRH), chief nursing and midwifery officers and regulatory bodies, professional societies and training institutions, and development partners and researchers working on health workforce migration and retention.