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Health Workforce

A strong and resilient health workforce is essential to meeting current and future health care demands. At the National Academy of Medicine, we focus on strengthening workforce development, supporting well-being, and ensuring that health professionals are equipped with the skills needed to deliver high-quality care.

Action Collaborative

Clinician Well-Being & Resilience

The Clinician Well-Being Collaborative is a network of leaders and representatives of many major health professional organizations and health systems across the United States. Since 2017, the Collaborative has convened, published, and shaped the national conversation to advance three goals:

Raise the visibility of clinician anxiety, burnout, depression, stress, and suicide
Improve baseline understanding of challenges to clinician well-being
Advance evidence-based, multidisciplinary solutions to improve patient care by caring for the caregiver

Apr 7, 2025Discussion Paper

A Path to Improved Health Care Worker Well-Being: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Introduction Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the general public may have been unaware of the growing health care worker burnout crisis. However, during the pandemic, it was difficult to miss media reports of increasing levels of burnout, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among health care professionals caring for seriously ill patients infected with a novel disease (Gregorio, 2020; Farrar, 2021). […]

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A Path to Improved Health Care Worker Well-Being: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mar 18, 2025Visual Collection

Healthy Providers, Healthy Patients: Advancing Workforce Well-Being in the Health Professions

Health Worker Well-Being

Healthy Providers, Healthy Patients: Advancing Workforce Well-Being in the Health Professions

Mar 4, 2024Visual Collection

Health Leaders Accelerate Well-Being

Health Worker Well-Being

Health Leaders Accelerate Well-Being