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25 March 2025
To beat air pollution, include health professionals in decision making for clean air, says WHPA at invitation-only global conference.
11 February 2025
WHPA delivered two hard-hitting statements on the health workforce and on climate change at WHO’s 156th Executive Board, speaking up for health professionals.
12 December 2024
On UHC Day, and as WHO member states prepare a new health workforce resolution, WHPA is releasing two statements, calling on governments to invest in health professionals to deliver safe, high-quality primary health care (PHC) in order to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).
19 November 2024
Over 500 participants attended WHPA's latest webinar, held on 18 November as part of World AMR Awareness Week. After the recent UN High-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance, our expert speakers shared their insights on what's really needed to beat AMR and how interprofessional collaboration can help.
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25 March 2025—WHPA is attending the invitation-only WHO Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health, and has joined 50 million members of the health community in signing the conference's Call to Action.
12 December 2024—On UHC Day, WHPA is calling on governments to invest in health professionals to deliver safe, high-quality primary health care (PHC) in order to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).
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.
19 August 2024—On World Humanitarian Day, health professionals join humanitarians around the world to express unwavering condemnation of the escalating violence targeting healthcare facilities and personnel.
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WHPA called for health professionals and civil society to be included in the development of climate-health strategies to reduce the health burden of climate-related diseases and protect future generations.
WHPA called on WHO to convene those countries driving unethical international recruitment as promised by its DG, and to differentiate between health professionals and other health workers to ensure safe and quality care.
As armed conflicts and attacks on health care increase, WHPA called on member states to include the protection of health professionals in the resolution on WHO's Global Health and Peace Initiative.
At a tense WHA after the breakdown of INB talks on a pandemic agreement, the Alliance urged member states to complete negotiations as soon as possible and to ensure that health equity is the beating heart of the pandemic accord.
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WHPA brings together the global organizations representing the world’s dentists, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists and physicians and speaks for more than 41 million health care professionals in more than 130 countries. WHPA works to improve global health and the quality of patient care and facilitates collaboration among the health professions and major stakeholders.

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