Table 1.

Key World Health Assembly resolutions impacting the global development and use of HRHIS (2000–2022)

Date	Resolution	Importance
May 2006	WHA 59.27 Strengthening nursing and midwifery [4]	Focused on the global shortage of doctors, nurses, and midwives; similar timing as the World Health Report (2006)
May 2007	WHA 60.27 Strengthening of health information systems [5]	Encouraged WHO member states to develop and use accurate data to estimate workload for health workers
May 2010	WHA 63.15 Health worker information systems and WHA 63.16 Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel [6]	Encouraged WHO member states to develop health worker information systems including data on migration of health personnel and encouraged member states to promote sustainable health systems
May 2016	WHA 69.19 Global Strategy on HRH: Workforce 2030 [7]	Instrumental in laying out four major initiatives: having evidence-informed policies to optimize the workforce; catalyzing investments in health labor markets to meet population needs; building institutional capacity and partnerships in HRH governance and leadership; and using data for monitoring and accountability, including the implementation of the NHWA and annual reporting to the WHO Global Health Observatory
May 2017	WHA 70.6 Working for Health: 5-year action plan for health employment and inclusive economic growth (2017–2021) [8]	A mechanism for coordinating the intersectoral implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, supporting WHO’s Global Strategy on HRH: Workforce 2030 and advancing universal health coverage (UHC). It gave impetus to two recommendations related to HRH data: 1) the establishment of an interagency data exchange and an online knowledge platform on the health and social service workforce; and 2) the establishment of an international platform on health worker mobility
May 2021	WHA A74/8 Strengthening health information systems [9]	Measures progress made toward implementing WHA60.27 and given COVID-19 highlights the importance of data and health information systems (HIS) in guiding policy responses to the crisis; current data and HIS are inadequate to track health emergency protection, preparedness, and recovery
May 2021	WHA 74.14, Protecting, safeguarding, and investing in the health and care workforce [10]	The Working for Health 2022–2030 Action Plan [11] responds to WHA 74.14, which calls for a clear set of actions for accelerating investments in health worker education, skills, employment, safeguarding, and protection to 2030