Press release on WHPA leaders attending 4th UN HLM on NCDs
25 September 2025—At the 4th United Nations High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases WHPA calls on global leaders to invest in health professionals.
15 April 2026
The evidence is clear: investing in health professionals yields strong returns. Register now for WHPA’s side event at the World Health Assembly.
1 April 2026
Global WHPA campaign launched to stress the unique value of health professionals.
Press release on WHPA representing health professionals at the UN Summit of the Future
22 September 2024—At the UN Summit of the Future, WHPA is calling on world leaders for the investment in the health workforce needed to meet the commitments made in the Summit's outcome document, the Pact for the Future.
22 October 2021
WHO estimates that between 80 000 and 180 000 health and care workers could have died from COVID-19 in the period between January 2020 to May 2021, converging to a medium scenario of 115 500 deaths. These deaths are a tragic loss. They are also an irreplaceable gap in the world’s pandemic response. WHPA, as part of WHO's steering group for the International Year of the Health and Care Worker, joins the press release and joint statement.
2 July 2021
June 2021
WHPA calls on concrete action and ambitious financial commitments to effectively help safeguard our underfunded, COVID-affected health systems. This is critical to ensuring the health, safety and retention of our essential health workforce and the community at large. We must do better to protect health professionals, their patients, families, communities, and the broader health of countries.
15 January 2021
Geneva, Switzerland, 15 January 2021
The World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) has released a message to the public requesting continued support and real action to support health professionals and other health and care workers in 2021.
9 April 2020
9 April 2020 - Open letter to G20 Heads of States and Governments
We are calling on you, the G20 leaders, to take coordinated action to ensure the security of the supply chain of personal protective equipment (PPE) for all health professionals and healthcare workers on the frontline against COVID-19 and in all countries alike. Only by acting in cooperation, across borders, will we be able to ensure that PPE reaches those who are literally putting their lives on the line to save our people from coronavirus. And there is no room for destructive competition between countries.
World health professionals call on governments to prioritise support for healthcare workers in the frontline against coronavirus
The world’s health professionals are calling for governments to support healthcare staff in the battle against Covid-19.
16 September 2019
The World Health Professions Alliance condemns the continuing targeted attacks on hospitals in Idlib province, in Syria’s north-west.
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