Global Health Workforce Alliance Welcomes New Executive Director

The Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) has announced the appointment of Dr James Campbell from UK as Executive Director, Global Health Workforce Alliance and Director of the Health Workforce Department, at the World Health Organization (HWF/WHO) effective 1^st July 2014.  Dr Campbell is currently Director of ICS Integrare, a not-for-profit research institute working to reduce social inequalities and inequities that affect health, education and prosperity.

Dr Campbell has worked as a specialist researcher/advisor on Human Resources for Health for governments, UN agencies and philanthropic foundations, including WHO, GHWA, UNFPA, World Bank, UK DFID, Norad and BMGF. Previous collaboration with WHO and GHWA includes work on the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (2010), WHO policy recommendations on ‘Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention’ (2010) and ‘A Universal Truth: No Health Without a Workforce’ launched at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Recife, Brazil (2013).