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). […]
Health Worker Well-BeingInfectious Diseases
Mar 18, 2025Visual Collection
Healthy Providers, Healthy Patients: Advancing Workforce Well-Being in the Health Professions
An NAM Graphic Medicine project To recognize the annual Health Workforce Well-Being Day on March 18, 2025, the NAM released this graphic medicine project demonstrating the critical health worker-patient relationship. Through art, the project highlights that health workers and the communities they serve have the common goal of better outcomes for all, and addressing burnout among health […]
Health Worker Well-Being
Mar 4, 2024Visual Collection
Health Leaders Accelerate Well-Being
At the inaugural Health Workforce Well-Being Day in March 2024, the NAM announced more than 350 health care institutions nationwide have signed up to the NAM’s Change Maker Campaign. As part of this Campaign, the NAM Clinician Well-Being Collaborative engaged about 15 Change Makers in a Photovoice project to depict what institutionalizing health worker well-being as a value looks […]
Health Worker Well-Being
Jan 28, 2025
Building a Culture of Well-Being: Planning for Health Workforce Well-Being Day 2025 Starts Now
Aug 20, 2024
From Vision to Reality: The Change Maker Campaign’s National Impact
Mar 18, 2024
NAM Recognizes First Health Workforce Well-Being Day; Health Leaders Accelerate Well-Being
Mar 11, 2024
Announcing the Health Workforce Well-Being Day of Awareness
