World Health Professions Alliance - WHPA

No single profession can meet every healthcare need alone 🩵

The World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) emphasizes that interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) brings health professionals together to deliver coordinated, person-centred care. When physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, physiotherapists, and other regulated health professionals work as one team, patients experience:

✅️ Better health outcomes
✅️ Improved safety
✅️ Stronger continuity of care
✅️ Greater involvement in decision-making

🤝 Collaboration isn't just good practice—it's essential for stronger health systems.

📖 Read the WHPA Statement on Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and discover how teamwork can transform care https://bit.ly/3FZGwcu



WHPA members:
FDI World Dental Federation
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
ICN - International Council of Nurses
World Medical Association - WMA
World Physiotherapy

📣 Calling all ! Help make approaches an integral part of education for health professionals 🩵

👉 Fill in this interprofessional survey and make sure the health workforce of the future can support climate and ecosystem resilience 🌏

https://redcap.uasz.sn/surveys/?s=JEFLNMAED7TKHD8P&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=survey_evaluating_planetary_health_and_one_health_education&utm_term=2026-06-30

✅ Survey available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hausa, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish

🌍 We’re inviting health professionals and students worldwide to participate in a global survey led by WVA and our collaborating partners to assess how and principles are integrated into education and professional training.

Who can participate?
🔹 Veterinarians
🔹 Veterinary paraprofessionals

🔹 Physicians
🔹 Nurses
🔹 Dentists
🔹 Public Health & Global Health professionals
🔹 Educators, students & trainees in related fields

Your input will help shape future recommendations for a stronger, more collaborative global health workforce. Takes about 10 minutes to complete!

Survey: https://redcap.uasz.sn/surveys/?s=JEFLNMAED7TKHD8P



World Medical Association - WMA
Consortium on Climate and Health Education
Network for Health Workforce Education
-International Council of Nurses
Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)
International Veterinary Students' Association (IVSA)
Doctors Network
WFPHA - World Federation of Public Health Associations
Health Alliance (PHA)
Health Lessons
Health Latinoamérica, Ibero y el Caribe (OHLAIC)
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Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
-Pan African University Institute of Life and Earth Sciences (Including Health & Agriculture)
One Health Commission

💥 WHPA's impact at the 79th World Health Assembly 💥

The resolution improving the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was adopted by 👏

Watch our statement supporting the changes to the code and urging high-income countries to make targeted co-investments in the health workforce and health systems in source countries
📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_2NSVMQ24g


World Health Organization (WHO)

WHPA members:
FDI World Dental Federation
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
ICN - International Council of Nurses
World Medical Association - WMA
World Physiotherapy