Health workforce economics

Program overview:

While health workers drive population health outcomes, investments into their training, recruitment and retention often do not align with system goals resulting in wasted resources and worse health. This program investigates sustainable ways to build the workforce needed for universal health coverage. Using methods like discrete choice experiments, economic evaluations and analyses of survey and administrative datasets, we investigate health system incentives, policy interventions and financing models to improve the motivation, retention and training of health workers, reduce corruption and investigate the economic impacts and investment case for greater use of non-physician health workers.

Program objectives:

The program aims to contribute to the development and scale-up of sustainable interventions to tackle global workforce challenges and improve population health.