title: Restructuring brain drain: strengthening governance and financing for health worker migration.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Health worker migration from resource-poor countries to developed countries, also known as ''brain drain'', represents a serious global health crisis and a significant barrier to achieving global health equity. Resource-poor countries are unable to recruit and retain health workers for domestic health systems, resulting in inadequate health infrastructure and millions of dollars in healthcare investment losses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using acceptable methods of policy analysis, we first assess current strategies aimed at alleviating brain drain and then propose our own global health policy based solution to address current policy limitations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Although governments and private organizations have tried to address this policy challenge, brain drain continues to destabilise public health systems and their populations globally. Most importantly, lack of adequate financing and binding governance solutions continue to fail to prevent health worker brain drain.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In response to these challenges, the establishment of a Global Health Resource Fund in conjunction with an international framework for health worker migration could create global governance for stable funding mechanisms encourage equitable migration pathways, and provide data collection that is desperately needed.
authors: Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA 92101, USA. tmackey@ucsd.edu
authors: Tim K
authors: TK
authors: Mackey
authors: Bryan A
authors: BA
authors: Liang
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000458:organization & administration; D014943:Global Health; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D009042:Motivation; D057766:Policy; D014944:World Health Organization
keywords: brain drain; global health; global health governance; health policy; health system strengthening; health worker migration