Working for Health - Expanding and transforming the health and social workforce for the Sustainable Development Goals

Overview

Working for Health was created in 2017 to assist countries to expand and transform the health and social workforce for the SDGs.

The programme tackles underinvestment and gaps in the health workforce that compromise efforts to stop the spread of disease outbreaks such as with the Ebola and Zika viruses and Avian Influenza.

It emphasizes the opportunities that a growing global health sector can offer by training the workforce, creating jobs and stimulating economic development, particularly for low- and middle-income countries.

The health and social sector has twice the employment growth rate of the rest of the economy. 40 million new health worker jobs can be created by 2030, each supported by at least two additional jobs in other sectors, offering the potential to create more than 120 million new jobs.