Message from the Editor in Chief

Abstract

In today’s healthcare circumstances, we must prioritize shared commitments to health equity, sustainable health systems, digital transformation, and preparedness for pandemics and climate change. Concerns are raised about inequitable international nurse recruitment to protect nursing workforces in fragile nations and prevent aggressive recruitment by high-income countries that undermines global health equity and access to essential services. Greater emphasis is required on establishing sustainable and ethical policies for health workforce migration. There is need for advocates to build self-sufficient nursing workforces globally and ending unsustainable recruitment practices that drain the health workforce from under-resourced areas. We must prioritize improving health workforce conditions, remuneration, education, and gender equity, alongside supporting equitable digital health transformation, vaccine access, and pandemic preparedness, and highlights the role of social inequalities in driving pandemics.