Dates: April 1 - 7, 2025
Theme: Health Workers: The Heart of Health
Take action with the WHWWeek Toolkit!
The world is facing a shortage of 11 million health workers by 2030. World Health Worker Week (#WHWWeek) highlights the importance of the health workforce – nurses, pharmacists, epidemiologists, doctors, community health workers, lab technicians, and their colleagues – the heart of global health. Led by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, #WHWWeek calls for increased investment in all cadres of the health workforce and advocates for prioritizing human resources for health on the global agenda. It is an opportunity to highlight the crucial role that sustained leadership and long-term investments in the health workforce play in achieving resilient health systems and advancing development goals.
#healthworkerssavelives and foster healthier communities by managing illness, preventing the spread of disease, providing education, among other things. In doing so, health workers also help drive economies – protecting the health of employees, reducing absenteeism and otherwise helping people thrive. Let’s make sure all cadres of health workers are compensated, protected, retained and succeed so that they can continue to help people live healthier, more productive lives.
Join Us
From April 1-7, join the Coalition and millions of leaders, health workers, advocates, policy makers, donors and citizens in raising awareness about the value of health workers and the need to invest in the heart of health. Make sure to use the hashtags #WHWWeek and #healthworkerssavelives.
Toolkit
Please find the World Health Worker Week Toolkit as Google Slides and as an Adobe Express Website. You'll find information for amplifying the dialogue, including graphics, key messages, and sample posts for social media. The toolkit highlights this year’s theme, and partners are encouraged to develop sub-themes, activities and calls to action that align with their specific priorities and country context.
Be part of the conversation with the hashtags #WHWWeek and #healthworkerssavelives.
Sponsors & Partners
To be a sponsor or official partner of World Health Worker Week, contact FHWCoalition@intrahealth.org.
TOP BANNER PHOTO: A nurse in Panama City at Hospital Santo Tomas. Photo by Trevor Snapp for IntraHealth International.