The Health Worker Migration Policy Initiative 15th May 2007 - New initiative
seeks practical solutions to tackle health worker migration The initiative,
led by Mary Robinson, President of Realizing Rights: the Ethical
Globalization Initiative, and Dr Francis Omaswa, Executive Director of the
Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), is aimed at finding practical
solutions to the worsening problem of health worker migration from
developing to developed countries.
The initiative will also promote good
practices and strategies to enable countries to increase supply and retain
their health workers more effectively. The new tools and policy
recommendations developed by the initiative will support better management
of migration through North-South collaboration. Members: Hon. Major Courage
Quarshie, Minister of Health, Ghana;Hon. Erik Solheim, Minister of
International Development, Norway; Hon. Patricia Aragon Sto Tomas, Minister
of Labor and Employment, the Philippines; Hon. Rosie Winterton, Minister of
State for Health Services, United Kingdom; Dr Lincoln Chen, Director, Global
Equities Initiative, Harvard Univers!
ity; Dr Anders Nordström, Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and
Services, WHO; Ms Janet Hatcher Roberts, Director, Migration Health
Department, IOM; Mr Ibrahim Awad Director, International Migration
Programme, ILO; Lord Nigel Crisp, Co-Chair, GHWA Task Force on Scaling up
Education & Training; Dr Percy Mahlati, Director of Human Resources,
Ministry of Health, South Africa; Huguette Labelle, Chancellor, University
of Ottawa; Dr Titilola Banjoko, Managing Director, Africa Recruit; Prof.
Ruairi Brugha Head, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Ireland; Ms
Sharan Burrow, President, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions;
Ms Ann Keeling, Director, Social Transformation Programs Division,
Commonwealth Secretariat; Mr Markos Kyprianou, Director General, Health &
Consumer Protection, European Commission; Mr Peter Scherer, Directorate for
Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD; Prof. Anna Maslin, Nursing
Officer, International Nursing & Midwifery Health!
Professions Leadership Team, Department of Health, United Kingdom; Dr Mary
Pittman, President, Health Research & Education Trust, American Hospitals
Association and Dr Jean Yan, Chief Scientist for Nursing & Midwifery, WHO,
chair of the Migration Technical Working Group For details visit
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2007/np23/en/index.html |
