IOM has partnered with an international consortium led by the
Scientific Institute of the German Medical Association (WIAD) to
implement a three-year research project on the mobility of health
professionals into, within and outside of the European Union
(MoHProf).

Worldwide mobility of health workers is a growing phenomenon,
impacting the health systems of receiving, transit, and sending
countries. EU Member States and third countries are increasingly
affected by these developments, occurring sometimes simultaneously
within the same country. The MoHProf project aims to inform EU
policymaking in this field by generating more comparable and
qualified data through primarily qualitative research.

IOM offices in Brussels and Pretoria have worked closely with
WIAD to develop a multi-stakeholder consortium of research partners
in Bulgaria, Germany, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa and the
United States, as well as international organizations and
professional associations representing health workers and
hospitals.

Through a network of researchers in 25 countries of origin and
destination, information will be collected through secondary data
analysis and in-depth interviews to determine quantity of flows,
professions impacted, and push and pull factors. A key component of
the project, funded by the European Commission, will be to develop
conceptual frameworks for monitoring health worker mobility. The
project's policy dimension will provide recommendations for health
human resource policies in European and third countries based on
sound empirical research.

IOM is a founding member of the Global Health Workforce Alliance
and has developed expertise in research on health worker mobility,
as well as through long-standing initiatives such as the Migration
for Development in Africa (MIDA) programme.

For further information please contact:

Roumyana Petrova-Benedict

IOM Brussels

Tel: +32 2 2824560

E-mail: "mailto:rpetrovabenedict@iom.int">rpetrovabenedict@iom.int