Health in Foreign Policy Forum: Migration and the Global Shortage of Health Care Professionals

February 8, 2006 - Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel

The 2006 Forum will focus on an issue that literally crosses borders: health worker migration. The Forum will examine the causes, consequences, and possible domestic and foreign policy responses to the global shortage of nurses and physicians. Panel discussions will focus on the following topics:

• Domestic Staffing Shortages: Role of International Recruitment: A panel of experts, including academics and the CEO of one the largest nurse recruitment firms, will describe the past, present and future directions of this phenomenon as it relates to nurses and physicians.
• Developing Nations: Migration, Retention & Return of Professionals International: Speakers will present data and an analysis of differing interests and viewpoints in developing nations.
• Promising Domestic & Foreign Policy Practices: Speakers will present an overview of both the domestic policy debate regarding strategies to increase self-sufficiency, and a discussion of different foreign aid strategies that seek to build health system capacity in the world’s poorest nations.  
• Public & Private Sector Policy Debate: Participants will be asked to react to the policy proposals presented during the day and to offer their own ideas on short and long-term strategies for strengthening health workforce capacity in this country and abroad.     

Additional registration is required. For more information, visit: www.academyhealth.org/nhpc/foreignpolicy/

 
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