Useful Links
Health Workforce and Migration
FAIMER is pleased to provide these links as a resource for those interested in health professions education and global health. This portion of the FAIMER website will be revised on an ongoing basis. We welcome your feedback on the usefulness of these links and recommendations for additions. To send us your suggestions, click here.
Health Care System Studies
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through studies and analysis of health care systems in Europe.
Health Workforce Challenges and Solutions
- AcademyHealth, International Exchange
- Compares health system challenges across countries and works collaboratively with other nations to solve global health challenges.
- Global Health Workforce Alliance
- Partnership of national governments, international agencies, researchers, educators, and professional associations that seeks to identify, advocate for, and implement solutions to the chronic shortage of health workers throughout the world.
- Health Workforce Australia
- Publications, news, and events related to Australia’s health workforce and workforce planning.
- The World Health Report 2006: Working Together for Health
- Assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and proposals to tackle it over the next ten years.
Health Workforce Information Resources
- Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC)
- A comprehensive on-line library that provides information on health workforce programs and funding sources, workforce data, research and policy, and educational opportunities and models across the United States.
- PAHO Human Resources Management
- Provides databases of information related to public health surveillance and periodical publications on migration issues in the Americas.
- UK Department for International Development (DFID) Health Resource Centre
- An international consortium, funded by DFID, that provides advice, expertise, and knowledge in public health and health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Two main HRC services are information services and consultancy services.
- World Health Organization - Health Workforce
- Addresses issues of education and training, governance and planning, migration, and retention in the health workforce field. Provides statistical information, publications, and information about events related to health workforce.
Health Workforce Studies
- AAMC Workforce Studies
- Conducts studies and produces reports on physician workforce issues related to physician supply, demand, distribution, and utilization. Brings together organizations and groups interested in physician workforce issues.
- Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS), University at Albany
- A non-profit research organization that conducts studies on the supply, demand, use, and education of the health workforce, and collects and analyzes data to understand workforce dynamics and trends.
- Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions
- Releases studies related to a range of health workforce challenges in the United States. Researches the state of the U.S. health care workforce, tracking shortages, trends, and issues as they develop.
- Human Resources for Health
- An open-access, peer-reviewed, on-line journal covering aspects of planning, producing, and managing health workforce.
- International Centre for Human Resources in Nursing (ICHRN)
- Undertakes and disseminates research on critical nursing HR issues. Analyzes and advocates nursing HR policy. Evaluates good HR management practice.
- The Midwest Center for Health Workforce Studies
- Resource for health workforce data, research, and policy analysis. Conducts analyses of supply, demand, diversity, training, and professional practice in nursing, medicine, dentistry, public health, pharmacy, occupational therapy, and genetics. Offers technical assistance to organizations seeking health workforce information.
- Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) Center for Health Workforce Studies
- Provides publications and studies on health workforce.
HRH/Health Workforce
- Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH)
- Generates and shares knowledge about human resources for health (HRH).
- Human Resources for Health (HRH) Global Resource Center
- A global library of human resources for health (HRH) on fundamental topics related to the HRH crisis and HRH research and practices, with a focus on developing countries.
- PAHO Human Resources Management
- Provides databases of information related to public health surveillance and periodical publications on migration issues in the Americas.
- World Health Organization - Health Workforce
- Addresses issues of education and training, governance and planning, migration, and retention in the health workforce field. Provides statistical information, publications, and events related to health workforce.
- World Health Organization - Human Resources for Health
- Information related to human resources for health and migration.
Migration Issues
- Development Research Centre (DRC) on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty
- Research and publications on migration issues with different types and themes in the UK, Albania, Egypt, Ghana, and Bangladesh.
- Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM)
- Provides the framework for the formulation of a coherent, comprehensive, and global response to the issue of international migration.
- The International Centre for Migration and Health (ICMH)
- A Swiss-based non-profit institution focusing on research, training, and policy advocacy in all areas related to migration and health.
- International Centre on Nurse Migration
- Collects, creates, and disseminates data and information on nurse migration. Tracks trends of global health care workforce migration, and analyzes and generates policy concerning nurse migration. Provides consultation and offers continuing education about nurse migration.
- World Health Organization - Migration of Health Workers
- Basic information on the reasons for migration of health workers and its impact.
Migration Management and Assistance
- International Labor Organization (ILO) - International Migration Programme (MIGRANT)
- A global knowledge base that provides advisory services to member states, promotes international standards, and provides a tripartite forum for consultations and technical assistance to constituents.
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- A leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration, helping to ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, promote international cooperation on migration issues, assist in the search for solutions to migration problems, and provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need.
- Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source
- Global analysis of international migration and refugee trends, offering useful tools, data, and essential facts on the movement of people worldwide.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Improves international cooperation to address the global health workforce crisis.
Pharmacy Workforce
- International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
- Publishes global pharmacy workforce report.
Selected Publications
Physician Migration: A Challenge for America, a Challenge for the World
Richard A. Cooper
The State of Health Workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence of Crisis and Analysis of Contributing Factors
African Region Human Development Working Paper, World Bank, Bernhard Liese, and Gilles Dussault
Impact, Regulation and Health Policy Implications of Physician Migration in OECD Countries
Mélanie Bourassa Forcier, Steven Simoens, and Antonio Giuffrida
Physician Migration: Donor Country Impact
A.P.R. Aluwihare
The Migration of Physicians from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: Measures of the African Brain Drain
Amy Hagopian, Matthew J. Thompson, Meredith Fordyce, Karin E. Johnson, and L. Gary Hart
Physician Migration, Education, and Health Care
John J. Norcini and Paul E. Mazmanian
Medical Migration and the Physician Workforce. International Medical Graduates and American Medicine
F. Mullan, R. M. Politzer, and C. H. Davis
Developing Evidence-based Ethical Policies on the Migration of Health Workers: Conceptual and Practical Challenges
Barbara Stilwell, Khassoum Diallo, Pascal Zurn, Mario R Dal Poz, Orvill Adams, and James Buchan
Globalization, Skilled Migration and Poverty Alleviation: Brain Drains in Context, DRC working paper T15 (PDF)
Ron Skeldon
Human Resources for Health and Development: A Joint Learning Initiative (PDF)
Skilled Migration: Healthcare Policy Options, DRC Briefing No.6 (PDF)