Dr Tana Wuliji (PhD, BPharm) led the establishment of the World Health Organization Academy between 2018 – 2021. The Academy will support 10 million people by 2023 with state-of-the-art lifelong learning to achieve health impact, with its first programmes released in 2021.
Tana cares deeply about equity and health and is passionate about people. She is a health workforce expert, researcher and policy advisor and has led large-scale international programmes for over 16 years in 15 countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia.
As Team Lead of the Working for Health programme from 2017-2019 at the WHO, she established and coordinated the world’s first interagency programme with ILO and OECD to address the 18 million health worker shortfall. This programme amplifies health and social workforce investments and intersectoral action for skills, employment and performance to guide and stimulate 40 million new health worker jobs.