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.
- AAMC Center for 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.
- AcademyHealth, International Exchange
- Compares health system challenges across countries and works collaboratively with other nations to solve global health challenges.
- Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH)
- Generates and shares knowledge about human resources for health (HRH).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Health Workforce Australia
- Publications, news, and events related to Australia’s health workforce and workforce planning.
- 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.
- Human Resources for Health
- An open-access, peer-reviewed, on-line journal covering aspects of planning, producing, and managing health workforce.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- International Labour 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.
- International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
- Publishes global pharmacy workforce report.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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) Human Development Resource Centre (HDRC)
- 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 HDRC services are information services and consultancy services.
- Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) Center for Health Workforce Studies
- Provides publications and studies on health workforce.
- 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.
- World Health Organization - Migration of Health Workers
- Basic information on the reasons for migration of health workers and its impact.
- 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.
