5 Questions with WHO ’s Jim Campbell

June 08, 2018We talked with the director of the WHO ’s Health Workforce Department during his visit to North Carolina’s global health belt.When Jim Campbell of the World Health Organization came to North Carolina this spring, we had a few minutes to pick his brain about some of the health workforce issues that are weighing heaviest on our minds —from the looming global shortage of health workers to what #MeToo and achieving gender equality could mean for the workforce worldwide.Campbell serves as director of the Health Workforce Department at WHO. He was in the North Carolina to talk with partners and collaborating centers in official relations with WHO about workforce issues, theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and global progress toward universal health coverage.As we work to achieve the SDGs, the WHO is calling on world leaders to commit to taking concrete steps that advance health services for all.Here ’s a bit of our conversation with Campbell:You ’ve mentioned that to make progress on health workforce issues, we need to bring new partners together in meaningful ways. How do we do that?Campbell: We need to be much more intersectoral. And we know the potential of that, thanks to the work of theUN Secretary-General ’s High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth andWorkforce 2030, which is the first-ever global strategy for the health workforce. So there ' s a keyrequirement for outreach to other sectors. Otherwise we are just talking to ...
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