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Global Health Workforce Development Institute (GHWDI)
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The Global Health Workforce Development Institute is a center of knowledge and excellence for health worker career advancement and mobility.
Launched in early 2024, the Global Health Workforce Development Institute conducts original research and leverages knowledge and data developed by TruMerit over its half-century of providing credentialing services affecting health worker migration. Its goal is to advance scientific knowledge about the evolution of health workforce roles, the impacts of health workforce mobility, and the development of credentialing and certification programs and policies.
Among the Institute’s primary objectives is creating rigorous global certification programs that streamline the assessment and recognition of practice competency. These will empower nurses and other health professionals around the world to achieve “work-readiness” regardless of where they choose to apply their knowledge and skills, while enabling them to showcase their competencies to employers, regulators, and educators worldwide.
The Institute’s mission is to:
- Advance global health workforce initiatives that empower health workers to improve care delivery and health outcomes.
- Connect service providers, policy makers, public advocates, and experts through contributions to knowledge management, research, assessment, and certification.
- Focus on global health workforce development using an interdisciplinary, evidenced-based approach, informed by research emphasizing implementation science and product development strategies.
The Institute’s effort will be guided by the following themes:
- Research
- Competency Validation
- Knowledge Generation
- Care delivery
Institute centers
- Center for Global Assessment and Certifications
Leads efforts in the setting of global standards and assessment of competencies in the health professions. - Center for Knowledge Management
Manages TruMerit’s extensive international education and health regulatory databases, along with other knowledge assets, with a focus on leveraging the educational and regulatory data to advance initiatives, policies and further research in global health workforce development. - Center for Global Research and Policy
Catalyzes a robust research and development agenda and contributes to global human resources for health scholarship through inquiry around global health workforce development, care delivery, and lifelong learning issues. - Global Nursing Workforce Centre (GNWC)
A joint initiative of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and TruMerit, the GNWC is a clearinghouse for research from around the world focusing on the nursing workforce. In addition to collecting and organizing nursing workforce research papers and publications, the Centre will analyze findings to identify trends, summarize policy recommendations, and highlight data and policy gaps.
Institute Research
The Nursing Education Pipeline: A literature review from 2014 to 2025
Institute News…
Resources…
- TruMerit Global Rehabilitation Certification
- Global Health Workforce Development Institute Will Support Population Health Through Research, Certification and Knowledge Generation – I.C.E. Credentialing Insights
- Global Rehabilitation Health Worker Certification: Global Agenda, Local Imperative – ASAHP Journal of Allied Health
- Global Certification: A Transformative Approach to Building the World’s Rehabilitation Health Workforce – Journal of Rehabilitation Therapy
- Delivering Rehabilitation Care Around the World: Voices From the Field – Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
Institute leadership
Global Health Workforce Development Institute Advisory Council
Amanda Marr Chung, PhD
Executive Director
Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
United States
Julie A. Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN
Endowed Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans
Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Lilian Ferrer, MS, PhD
Vice President for International Affairs and Professor
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Director, The Center for Health Services and Nursing Development for Non-
communicable Diseases Care
Chile
James Henderson, PhD
Psychometrician
Credentialing Examination Consulting, LLC
United States
Quinette Louw, BSc, MASP, PhD
Executive Head
Department of Health and Rehabilitation Studies, Stellenbosch University
South African Research Chair in Innovative Rehabilitation and Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia, South Africa
Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III
Global Health Scientist
Editor-in-Chief, Public Health Challenges (Wiley)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
United Kingdom
Jack Needleman, PhD, FAAN
Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Oscar Ocho
Director of School of Nursing, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
Ministry of Health, Acting Chief Nursing Officer, West Indies
Wesley Teter
Higher Education Reform Expert
Asian Development Bank
Thailand