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Editorial
Envisioning a Global Health Partnership Movement
Andrew Jones
Globalization and Health201612:1
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-015-0138-4
Published: 6 January 2016
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“A universal truth: No health without a workforce” was the rallying cry of the flagship report commissioned by the Global Health Workforce Alliance Secretariat and the World Health Organization [1] and one which must be embraced if the aspiration for universal health coverage is ever to be realised [2]. One in seven people will never see a qualified health worker in their lives. The world will be short of 12.9 million health-care workers by 2035. The figures speak for themselves. It has never been clearer that there has to be a major global effort to recruit, educate and train health workers.
As the international development community prepare for the delivery of the next set of development goals, focus must include a meaningful revitalisation of the concept of partnership and a shift from short-term global interests to strengthening systems in low and middle-income countries. The Sustainable Development Goals call on new forms of partnership that speak to co-development rather than traditional models of international development – mutuality, co-learning and a recognition that we gain as much as we give by working through partnerships. It is time for donors and governments to look beyond monetary contributions to also consider what resources, expertise and technology that, if shared, could result in mutual benefit. In this sense, health partnerships offer a vision of the way in which learning and knowledge-exchange will take place in the future…