Results from the second round of national reporting "Assessing the Relevance and Effectiveness of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel" - presented to the 69th World Health Assembly
Results from the second round demonstrate a significant improvement in the quantity and the quality of reporting by Member States on the implementation of the Code. Read more [PDF - 7 pages - 426 Ko]
Doctor emigration remains a challenge for Irish Health Service
New evidence from Ireland suggests foreign trained doctors experience slower career progression than doctors trained in Ireland. Read more
HRH Journal Special supplement “The WHO Global Code of Practice: Early Evidence of its Relevance and Effectiveness”
The supplement includes fourteen papers covering destination and source country experiences that add to the evidence on the relevance and effectiveness of the Code, and proposes actions in support of the Expert Advisory Group recommendations to the 68th World Health Assembly. Read more [PDF - 5 pages - 800 Ko]
Brain Drain to Brain Gain project partner meeting
The 3rd Partner Coordination meeting was held in New Delhi, India to facilitate learning across countries and assess progress and challenges encountered during the 2nd year of project implementation. Read more
The case for investing in health within the developing world
A workshop hosted by the European Parliament’s Research Service provided an opportunity for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs, international experts and the broader public to examine the importance of financing health systems in low and middle-income countries. Read more
Project Resources
Minimum data sets for human resources for health and the surgical workforce in South Africa’s Health System - A rapid analysis of stock and migration
Percy Mahlathi, Jabu Dlamini,
African Institute of Health & Leadership Development
September 2015 [PDF - 16 pages - 1.87 Mb]
Surgical Workforce in Nigeria: Stock and flow of medical and dental practitioners in Nigeria, with special focus on health workforce training in Cross River State
Peter Eriki, Angela Oyo-Ita, Robert Odedo,
Anthony Udoh, Francis Omaswa, Patrick Kadama
African Centre For Global Health and Social Transformation,
December 2015
[PDF - 16 pages - 1.77 Mb]
Ireland a destination and source country for health professional migration
Professor Ruairí Brugha, Dr Sara McAleese, Dr Niamh Humphries
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI
November 2015
[PDF - 25 pages - 1.55 Mb]
Surgical Workforce in India - What the state of Kerala tells us about the production, stock and migration of the health workforce
Professor Krishna D. Rao et al.
World Health Organization
December 2015
[PDF - 32 pages - 2.16 Mb]
Multimedia
Video: Brain Drain to Brain Gain
The film looks at the impact that the Code has had since its adoption in 2010,focusing on India and Ireland, two countries that are prioritized by the EU funded Brain Drain to Brain Gain project.
This newsletter has been issued in the framework of the project “Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Supporting the WHO Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel for Better Management of Health Worker Migration” funded by the European Union (DCI-MIGR/2013/282-931), coordinated by WHO.
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