4 Topic Commentaries

How is the global health workforce changing?

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  Peter H. Kilmarx, MD

  Infectious diseases and global health

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  National Institutes of Health

  In my talks with early-career colleagues, I warn them that AI won’t take their jobs, but someone who knows how to use AI might.

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  Ana Langer, MD

  Reproductive and maternal health

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  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  The bottom line is that women play an incredibly important role in the health care workforce and in the health system, but very often their contributions represent an invisible subsidy to the health system because they are not fully recognized, they are underpaid, they are not paid at all, and they are not represented in decision-making bodies.

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  Wagaki Gicheru, MBChB

  Anesthesiology; health professions education

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  Kenya Medical Training College

  Global health is about issues that are transnational that affect different countries. One thing that affects our country and the world, including the U.S., is [global health] workforce shortages. It is a prominent issue on the global front.

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  Andres Barkil-Oteo, MD, MSc

  Psychiatry; public psychiatry; global mental health

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  Yale School of Medicine

  The program serves as a model for expanding access to mental health services by rational task shifting. The program is a hands-on introduction to the field of public psychiatry and the challenges of providing culturally-competent care with limited resources.

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