Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030
Working for Health 2022-2030 Action Plan
WHO health workforce support and safeguards list 2023
Global health and care worker compact: technical guidance compilation
Global Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery (2016-2020)
Delivered by women, led by men: A gender and equity analysis of the global health and social workforce (Human Resources for Health Observer Series No. 24)
WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
This report presents the 2026 edition of the National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA) series, providing an overview of the status of NHWA implementation...
This report analyses the landscape of digital health competency frameworks and standards developed to strengthen health workforce education and practice...
The Global health and care worker compact (“Care Compact”) assessment tool was developed to support countries and their stakeholders to examine...
Health systems worldwide face persistent challenges in protecting, supporting and retaining the health and care workforce, challenges that were sharply...
Global curriculum guide for community health workers
The contribution of community health workers (CHWs) to universal health coverage and their performance can be optimized through appropriate health workforce...
Integrating community health workers into health systems: a step-by-step policy implementation guide
This guide presents steps that policy-makers, planners, managers and their partners should undertake when considering a national or subnational policy...
Infection prevention and control guideline for Ebola and Marburg diseases
Assessment and management of health and care workers with possible occupational exposures to Orthoebolavirus or Orthomarburgvirus: implementation guidance
Assessment and management of health and care workers with possible occupational exposures to Orthoebolavirus or Orthomarburgvirus: implementation guidance
Health workforce policy and management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic response
HealthWISE Trainers’ Guide: Work Improvement in Health Services
HealthWISE Action Manual: Work Improvement in Health Services
This report presents the 2026 edition of the National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA) series, providing an overview of the status of NHWA implementation...
This report analyses the landscape of digital health competency frameworks and standards developed to strengthen health workforce education and practice...
This document provides public health advice on multisectoral actions to support the social and economic protection of communities affected by Ebola and...
Development of the World Health Organization Global competency and outcomes framework for the Essential Public Health Functions
Strategies to support the mental health and well-being of health and care workforce: a rapid review of reviews
Behind the Paper: Global Progress on Health Workforce - Towards 2030
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This document is a combined summary of international stakeholder responses for the fifth round of reporting on the Global Code of Practice on the International...
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The impact of suspensions and reductions in health official development assistance on health systems
To better understand and respond to the urgent challenges that countries are facing in terms of the impact on health systems caused by recent suspensions...
Working for Health: Optimize, build and strengthen the health and care workforce is a non-technical brochure that gives an overview of the Working for...
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What the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed: the findings of five global health workforce professions
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO asserted that a holistic assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact is needed and accordingly formulated a...
Health workforce policy and management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic response
This guide consolidates COVID-19 guidance for human resources for health managers and policy-makers at national, subnational and facility levels to design,...
The role of community health workers in COVID-19 vaccination: Implementation support guide
This guide is intended to support national governments developing their national deployment and vaccination plans (NDVPs) for COVID-19 vaccines by outlining...
Joint WHO/ILO policy guidelines on improving health worker access to prevention, treatment and care...
This document presents an evidence-informed policy for the provision of improved access to HIV and TB prevention, treatment, care and support for health...
Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a living guideline,...
The Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a living guideline consolidates infection...
WHO estimates that between 80 000 and 180 000 health and care workers could have died from COVID-19 in the period between January 2020 to May 2021, converging...
Impact of COVID-19 on human resources for health and policy response: the case of Plurinational State...
In the International Year of Health and Care Workers (2021) and in an effort to support countries in the design and implementation of strategies to address...
Impact of COVID-19 on Human Resources for Health and Policy Response: the Case of Belize, Grenada, and...
Health workers are crucial in the preparedness and response to COVID-19, but the pandemic has evidenced the shortage of human resources for health (HRH)...
