Author: Tulenko K and Preker A

Project: CapacityPlus

Series: Technical Brief #8

Date: 2013

Description: For low resource countries to train and produce a health workforce sufficient to meet the populations’ needs, new sources of funding for health worker education need to be found. To address this problem, CapacityPlus partnered with the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank, and the Global Health Workforce Alliance in an exploration of innovative solutions for the financing of health worker education. This technical brief presents a summary of the forms of financing proposed or documented through this process.