To establish a talent pool for global health in China: from political will to action

• Main Authors: Jiye Fu, Chu Jiang, Juguang Wang, Yan Xing
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
• Series: Global Health Action
• Subjects: Global health; human resource for health; China
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2018.1489603

Recently, China has played a more and more important role in global health, mainly by improving health outcomes of its own population nationwide and participating international health activities. In addition, China has participated in a dozen of international organizations, which all contained health domains, particularly the Belt and Road Initiative with an ambitious goal to improve health of the people in the countries alongside closely partnered with the World Health Organization. All these highlight the need of human resource for global health at the national level. The National Health and Family Planning Commission translated this political will into action – that a talent pool candidate for global health will be established in China. The establishment of the talent pool would be of great significance for China’s engagement in global health activities. However, much work, such as training, collaboration, and innovation, etc., remains to be done in the future. Based on the successful practice, China can share lessons learned to other countries.