Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the March edition of our section’s newsletter!

In this issue, you will find updates on our section leadership, annual Health and Care Workforce Section’s upcoming Mid-term Conference in Cluj-Napoca, interesting webinars, and recent publications.

We are looking forward to meeting many of you in Cluj-Napoca for our mid-term conference, on 22-24 April.

In the meantime, do not forget that submissions for the EPHC in Bilbao have started and will be open until 1 May. If you have any abstract submission ideas that you would like to propose, please do not hesitate to reach out!

With the best wishes,

Marius, Michelle and Tiago

We would like to inform you that Prof. Tiago Correia has decided to step down from his role as Vice-President of the EUPHA Section on Health and Care Workforce. This decision follows a careful consideration of his recent appointment as Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Public Health and reflects his commitment to avoiding any potential perception of conflict of interest in future interactions between the Journal and our Section.

While there is no formal incompatibility between these roles, Tiago has chosen to act with integrity and foresight, prioritizing the credibility and transparency of both the Section and the Journal.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude for his outstanding service, commitment, and collegiality. His contributions have played an important role in strengthening the Section’s work and community. We warmly congratulate him again on his new role and look forward to continuing our collaboration in other capacities.

In the same time, we are happy to announce that Dr. Ligia Paina will reaplce Prof. Tiago Correia as section vice-president.

Our section’s annual mid-term conference in taking place between 22 and 24 April in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Early bird registration is available until 30 March. More details, including the preliminary agenda, is available at this link: https://hwrconference.publichealth.ro/

We are looking forward to meeting many of you in Cluj-Napoca soon!

We are also pleased to announce an upcoming webinar that continues our shared efforts to advance evidence-informed policy and practice in the field of health and care workforce:

Responding to current and future challenges in health and care workforce: linking research, policies and practices

25 March 2026, 15:00–16:00 CET

The webinar will bring together leading experts and contributors to recent work in the field, with a focus on translating research into actionable policy and system-level change. The discussion will address current pressures on the workforce, emerging priorities, and practical approaches to strengthening capacity and resilience across health systems.

Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/iSf2cpWlTBCxVTmrImXscQ

The webinar will feature content published in a recent supplement of the European Journal of Public Health, available online at this link: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/issue/36/Supplement_1

We also highlight two recent publications of relevance to our community:

1. CPME Magazine, Spring 2026: https://www.cpme.eu/api/documents/adopted/2026/03/cpme_magazine_spring_2026.pdf

2. Kuhlmann E, Correia T, Czabanowska K, Falkenbach M, Ungureanu M-I, Wismar M, Zapata T. Health security needs a European health and care workforce strategy, and it needs it now. Health Policy, 2026;167:105597; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2026.105597

The webinar series The health and care workforce – from crisis to capacities will continue with two new webinars in April and May.

Webinar 2, 15 April 2026, 11.00-12.00am CET – Retaining health and care workers and improving resilience to ensure workforce sustainability

Webinar 3, 18 May, 3.00-4.00pm CET – Transforming health systems through health and care workers to build new capacities

 The series is organised by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Policies and Planning (IHMT NOVA – Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical), in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Health Policy, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, EUPHA – European Public Health Association, EUPHA Health and Care Workforce Section, and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development (Maastricht University).

Programme: https://whoccworkforce.ihmt.unl.pt/2026/02/05/the-health-and-care-workforce-from-crisis-to-capacities-webinar-series/

Free registration but mandatory: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=kH7UWagkbU-OenyOnd9A2rKvS4-UrH1GreJSZFjB3-pUNkNMQ1ZaS0VUVEZTTFQ0S0JPQ1o4TktVTC4u&route=shorturl

Abstract submission for EPHC 2026 in Bilbao: https://ephconference.eu/bilbao-2026/abstracts/

As usual, if you have any questions, proposals for EPHC 2026 submissions, or contributions for the April newsletter, please do not hesitate to let us know!