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News & commentary about the global health workforce

World Health Worker Week: Recognizing the Work of Laboratory Professionals

Have you ever wondered who conducts the lab testing for your annual exam? Or the specialized testing for genetic disorders?

Movers, Shakers, Thinkers, Doers Converge on Former N.C. Mill Town

These three innovators are hell-bent on changing the world. And now they're headed to Saxapahaw, NC, for SwitchPoint 2014.

Meet Eight Health Workers Who Love Their Jobs

During World Health Worker Week, we’re celebrating the people who provide life-saving care.

Five Key Steps to Making the Health Workforce a Post-MDG Priority

Let’s make sure our next set of global commitments is sustainable by putting health workers at the center.

Six Steps on the Long Road to Gender Equality

What can we do to reduce discrimination and violence against women? And how can we make change last for generations to come? Madhuri Narayanan has some ideas.

Building a Health Workforce to Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation

What will the woman nominated to be the next leader of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief say about the health workforce?

In Tanzania, Health Workers Stand Up for Victims of Violence

After a traumatic injury during childbirth went untreated, Akinyi suffered months of spousal abuse. Then she met a nurse named Neema.

At the Oscars, a Spotlight on Health Care in the Midst of Violence

In Karama Has No Walls, we see health workers risk their lives to care for the wounded. It happens more often than you might think.

Top 10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2014

Games. Youth. War. We’ve got our eyes on 10 topics that will shape 2014 for us all—especially for members of the health workforce.