Our Mission & Vision

Who We Are

The Frontline Health Workers Coalition is an alliance of organizations and corporations working together to urge greater and more strategic investments in the health workforce as a cost-effective way to save lives and foster a healthier, safer, and more prosperous world.

Our Vision

We believe that every community should have access to trained, paid, and supported health workers who are able to provide important health services and respond to health threats.

Why it Matters

Improving access to health workers with the right skills, in the right numbers, and in the right places is crucial to global health progress. Threats such as Covid-19 and Ebola can be halted when health workers coordinate community-level prevention, detection, and response efforts. Maternal and newborn mortality can largely be prevented when skilled birth attendants are present. The spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria can be slowed when health workers promote awareness, conduct testing, and provide treatment. And health workers can both prevent, treat, and care for the growing burden of non-communicable diseases worldwide.

Moreover, investment in health employment has bears tremendous economic returns - estimated at 9:1 globally by the by the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, an investment that holds particular promise for women’s economic empowerment.

Yet, the world faces an acute shortage of frontline health workers. At least half of people worldwide lack access to essential services provided by health workers. Consequently, millions of people die or are disabled every year from preventable causes. The world is facing a shortage of 11 million health workers by 2030 without immediate and strategic investments.