Advancing a Common Care Framework for Ethical Health Worker Mobility

This session will explore how to make international health worker mobility fairer, more sustainable and more credible for all parties involved. It will introduce the Common Care Framework, a practical policy model for governing health worker mobility not simply as a matter of recruitment, but as a broader relationship that must also address integration, professional recognition, worker protection, retention, and mutual benefit between countries of origin and destination. Structured around the principles of respect, recognition and utility, the Framework aims to define what responsible and workable mobility should look like in practice for governments, employers, health workers and communities. The discussion will connect this approach to current global debates on the WHO Global Code of Practice, the WHO Support and Safeguards List, and the ILO fair recruitment framework, with a view to identifying more concrete and accountable ways of governing health worker mobility