Dates: April 1 - 7, 2024
Theme: Safe and Supported: Invest in Health Workers
This World Health Worker Week will bring together advocates, health workers, practitioners, leaders, and communities around the world to call for greater funding and faster implementation of commitments to protect and support health workers. Led by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and our partners, it's a time to influence policymakers and other decision-makers to translate policies and promises into long-term investments in the health workforce and integration in health systems. Doing so not only strengthens the health of communities, but also pays other development dividends.
Join Us
Mark your calendars to take part in this global advocacy moment! Last year thousands of people around the world participated in World Health Worker Week—including health workers, advocates, policymakers, and donors—and we reached millions of people.
From April 1 - 7, let's raise awareness about the importance of health workers and engage even more people in advocacy. Together we'll urge leaders from the global to the community level to follow through on their commitments and invest in, protect, and support the health workforce—especially women health workers.
Toolkit
Use the World Health Worker Week Toolkit! You'll find information for amplifying the dialogue, including graphics, key messages, and sample posts for social media. You'll also learn how to become an official partner this year. Make sure to use the hashtags #WHWWeek and #SafeSupportedHealthWorkers.
Key advocacy event
Project HOPE, Global Health Council, and Frontline Health Workers Coalition will host an in-person and virtual event on April 3. Register to join in person in Washington DC or via livestream. Recognized thought leaders will discuss how health workers are critical to achieving every global health goal and how the spaces where they work are increasingly targeted during conflict. Coalition members will educate US Congressional staffers and others on the need to increase investment in health workers around the world and ask them to support the Global Frontline Health Workers Resolution introduced in the US House of Representatives.
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Collaborators
To become a collaborator and find out more information please see the World Health Worker Week Toolkit (slide 17) or contact Tina Flores at cflores@intrahealth.org to discuss further.
