Improving maternal, newborn, child & adolescent health through thriving health workers
Commitment description:Johnson & Johnson supports the World Health Organization’s call for universal health coverage and is committed to addressing the gap of 18 million frontline health workers needed by 2030 to achieve that goal. Building upon decades of steadfast commitment to supporting and championing health workers, Johnson & Johnson announced the formation of the Center for Health Worker Innovation in 2019 to focus on the three cadres—nurses, midwives and community health workers—who are the first point of contact in the health system for most patients and communities. Johnson & Johnson is committed to close the health worker coverage gap, improve quality of care and strengthen primary, community-based health systems to improve health outcomes—including decreased maternal and child mortality, reduced disease burden and susceptibility to pandemics, and improved mental health. Employing innovative, collaborative tools that go beyond grant funding, Johnson & Johnson will emphasize five areas important for health workers to thrive on the job—Training & Education, Leadership & Management, Well-being & Resilience, Connection & Integration, and Respect & Recognition. No single institution can deliver universal health coverage, but as the world’s largest diversified healthcare company, we will apply our unique capabilities to accelerate a successful collective approach to provide everyone, everywhere with access to basic, quality health services.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionJohnson & Johnson will emphasize five areas important for health workers to thrive on the job—Training & Education, Leadership & Management, Well-being & Resilience, Connection & Integration, and Respect & Recognition.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
