If there are still many areas where the pandemic leaves us in the dark, it will have had the merit of highlighting the structural shortcomings of the world of health. And in particular the importance of its agents and of having trained and competent staff in sufficient numbers.
This Monday, May 24, the President of the Republic spoke at the annual meeting of WHO in Geneva until 1is June. And the announcement of the day was the opening of the World Health Academy in Lyon in 2023. The project was decided before the health crisis, in June 2019 with the aim of ” train public officials, business leaders and the driving forces of global civil society in global health issues “. The stated objective? ” Become the benchmark training structure in public health. »
Emmanuel Macron said that France has committed up to 120 million euros in this project and that from this summer, a first catalog of online training will see the light of day. This academy will take place at the Gerland biotechnology research center. The latter is already home to the International Cancer Research Center and pharmaceutical groups such as Sanofi.
WHO has insisted on the need to train new recruits. The Institution estimates that there will be a shortage of 18 million health workers by 2030, particularly in the less wealthy countries. However, as the French President recalled, this crisis has highlighted the importance of being able to count on reliable information and ” robust health systems ».
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