Dear Colleague,

 

We are extremely pleased to report steady progress in stimulating debate about how to better prepare the global health workforce for the 21st century. The Lancet Commission report continues to catalyze lively discussions and critical reflection among diverse groups and nations.

 

Our two partners--the InterAcademy Medical Panel and the U.S. Institute of Medicine Global Health Forum--have contributed significantly to the momentum of reform. The IAMP has disseminated the report to 68 countries and has selected 7 countries to hold in-country launches of the report to discuss report recommendations in context of local applicability (see story below).

 

This month, the U.S. Institute of Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education held its first planning meeting. There was a lot of energy in the room generated by the 47 members in attendance! The forum has 29 associations and foundations as supporting members--representing medicine, nursing, public health, pharmacy, dietetics, dentistry, social work, psychology, among other disciplines. Representatives from the Innovation Collaboratives also attended as well as other at-large members.

 

The forum was spearheaded by Dr. Patrick Kelley and is co-chaired by two other Lancet report Commissioners, Professor Afaf Meleis (Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) and Dr. Jordan Cohen (George Washington University School of Medicine and former President of the Association of American Medical Colleges). You can read more about the meeting below.

 

We very much appreciate your continuing interest. You'll find more news and upcoming events on our website, which is updated weekly at http://www.healthprofessionals21.org.

 

Best regards,

   

 

Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health and Commission Co-chair 

 

Lincoln Chen, President, China Medical Board and Commission Co-chair

 

IAMP Selects Countries to Hold Local Workshops on Reform

Led by Dr. Bernie Jones, the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP) has been disseminating the Commission report recommendations to its member medical academies, concentrating in regions with especially large numbers of low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Jones reports that seven member academies have been selected to hold workshops in their countries "to further disseminate, discuss and assess for local relevance the conclusions and recommendations of the Commission report": Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Sweden. Read more.