The aim of CHAI’s Health Workforce Program is to ensure our partner governments can optimize the number, skill mix, performance, and distribution of their health workforces within available resources. When this is the case, governments will be able to make progress toward universal health care (UHC) and primary healthcare (PHC) by maximizing the extent to which available, high performing, and motivated health workers can provide quality services to the population when and where needed.

We do this by supporting governments with the analytics, policy development and processes needed to estimate workforce requirements and strategically recruit, deploy and sustain health workers – from community health workers who identify and refer patients into facilities all the way to specialist physicians who provide lifesaving care. We also partner with governments on ways to improve the management of their existing workforces, from strengthening information systems to integrating historically fragmented systems for continuous learning.

To accomplish all of this, we support governments to mobilize, coordinate, and optimally allocate resources—domestic and external—for health workforce. Currently, CHAI is supporting the governments of ten countries to strategically program their Global Fund activities for health workforce and community health, making sure that governments can leverage the single largest global source of funding for health workforce and, in so doing, make progress toward their national priorities for workforce and health systems development.