he time to act is now. With a predicted global shortage of 11 million health workers by 2030, ensuring resilient and responsive health systems to meet the needs of communities requires greater and smarter investments in the health workforce. Pragmatic, sustainable solutions. that leverage technology to maximize efficiencies and impact are necessary to address the health workforce challenge. This includes fair pay, mental health support, professional development, and safer working environments for nurses, doctors, community health workers, pharmacists, epidemiologists and their colleagues across all cadres. Investments in health workers yield exponential returns, from economic stability to climate resilience, gender equity and social stability and, of course, the actualization of high-level political commitments to advancing health in every community across the world. When health workers flourish, each one of us reaps the benefits.

But what will this look like? How can we re-envision the future of the health workforce?