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Senior Specialist Jessica Smith
Jessica Smith is a senior specialist in health technical writing in the global health division at Chemonics. She enjoys leveraging her clinical nursing background on behalf of diverse health projects.
by Jessica Smith
How Can We Address Health Workforce Challenges to Meet SDG3?
The target of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.c.1 is to “substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries” by 2030 and thus improve health workforce density and distribution. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates a shortfall of 10 million healthcare workers by 2030, mostly…
Weaving Security Blankets: Maximizing Local Organizations’ Impact on Health in Fragile Settings
For the twelfth consecutive year, the number of people forcibly displaced globally has increased. It is currently at an all-time record. As levels of fragility, conflict, and violence increase across the globe, healthcare is becoming harder to access, especially for women and girls who need access to family planning and maternal, newborn, and child health…