Human Resources for Health

The Health Workforce department within World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking submissions for the Human Resources for Health supplement issue 'Workload Indicators for Staffing Need (WISN) methodology for health workforce planning and estimation'. This supplement seeks to expand the evidence base on implementation experiences of the Workload Indicators for Staffing Need (WISN) studies carried out in varying settings and the use of the WISN results to aid health workforce planning.
Please see the Supplement page for details on how to submit as this is via a separate system. Full manuscripts should be submitted by 1 December 2020. 

Well-functioning regulatory mechanisms, such registration, licensing and certification bodies, and accreditation processes can strengthen the quality and performance of the health workforce, especially in a context of increasing international mobility of health workers. In response to this, we are delighted to invite submissions to a new thematic series on Health workforce: Accreditation of education and regulation of practice.
For more details, including how to obtain sponsorship for the APCs, please visit the series page.

In recognition that 2020 is the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, we are delighted to announce that a new thematic series on 'Research to support evidence-informed decisions on optimizing the contributions of nursing and midwifery workforces' is now open for submissions.  We are calling for submissions focusing on research and analysis that contributes to improved policy, planning and implementation related to nursing and midwifery, and that provides new evidence on the impact on health systems and outcomes. For more details please visit the series page. This series closes to new submissions on 1 February 2021.

As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times.  Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.

In this thematic series, Human Resources for Health presents a collection of articles on research to support evidence-informed decisions on optimizing gender equity in health workforce policy and planning.  The collection includes original quantitative and qualitative research, reviews, and expert commentary articles, all concerning the monitoring, evaluation and accountability of human resources for health policy options through a gender equity lens.

For published articles please visit the series page here.