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Health Workers
Save Lives

Building the health workforce of the future

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THE CHALLENGE

A Health Worker Shortage

The countries of sub-Saharan Africa shoulder 24 percent of the world’s disease burden with only 3 percent of the global health workforce. And by 2030, Africa’s health worker shortage is expected to exceed six million.

Despite the crucial role health workers play in saving lives, less than 7 percent of global health funding has been invested in the health workforce since 2010.

At Seed Global Health, we’re working to change this.

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WHAT WE DO

Invest In Health Workers

We educate and train doctors, nurses, and midwives to deliver high-quality health services and save lives. We do this by partnering closely with ministries of health, health professional schools, hospitals, and clinics. We also advocate globally and nationally to create policies that support health workers to provide high-quality care.

Our Impact At a Glance

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42,000+

Health workers trained

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30

Partner organizations

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76M+

Estimated population served by our partner sites

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Our Work

We focus on health workers because people are the leading levers of change in a health system.

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MALAWI

We build the capacity of doctors, nurses, and midwives so that they can address the diverse and specific health needs of their communities and serve as agents of change. We  focus on:

  • Community Health
  • Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
  • Mental Health

MALAWI

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SIERRA LEONE

We strengthen human resources for health and build a comprehensive health system that can provide care for all. We focus on:

  • Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health

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UGANDA

We enable access to high-quality emergency care and maternal, newborn, and child health services that improve the well-being of those who seek them. We focus on:

  • Emergency Care
  • Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health

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ZAMBIA

We train family physicians and midwives who can provide comprehensive, continuous, high-quality care in urban and rural communities to people at all stages of life. We focus on:

  • Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
  • Primary Care

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