International health workforce expert joins UTS

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International health workforce expert joins UTS


Internationally renowned academic Professor James Buchan has been appointed Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at the University of Technology, Sydney. Attracted to UTS by its dynamism and outward-looking nature, Professor Buchan joins UTS from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care at the Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. With expertise in health services management and health workforce planning, Professor Buchan is looking forward to testing current human resources policy in the health sector and shaping new policy. "Too often in the past the central contribution of the health workforce, particularly nursing and midwifery, has been ignored or underestimated," Professor Buchan said. "However, workforce issues are now, rightly, on the top of the agenda in the health sector. It is warranted that the focus of the 2006 World Health Report is on the workforce." Professor Buchan will work with the Faculty's Centre for Health Services Management in developing the policy research and consultancy portfolio in the Western Pacific and South East Asia Regions. Professor Buchan is a Special Adviser to the Health Committee of the United Kingdom Parliament and was previously Research Director on the International Council of Nurses global nursing workforce program. He has worked with the World Health Organisation in Geneva and as well as over thirty countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Pacific. Thursday 7 December 2006