Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world.

reaffirms the critical role of frontline health workers in achieving core global health goals, including ending preventable child and maternal deaths, ensuring global health security, and achieving an AIDS-free generation;

commends the progress made by the United States in helping to build local capacity and to save lives in the world’s most vulnerable communities by training and supporting frontline health workers;

acknowledges that in the aftermath of natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and conflict, frontline health workers continue to perform critical services under difficult working conditions, often at great personal risk, to save the lives of those without access to medicines, equipment, or running water in many cases;

urges greater global attention and support for local frontline health workers to ensure their protection and ability to respond effectively during humanitarian and public health crises and to safeguard the health of the world’s most vulnerable populations, including populations in conflict-affected states; and

calls on all relevant Federal agencies, including the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of State, and the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to develop a coordinated, comprehensive, inter-sectoral, and data-driven health workforce strengthening action plan with concrete targets for increasing equitable access to qualified health workers in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in underserved areas, to support the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 and recommendations of the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, including clear accountability mechanisms for monitoring progress, including progress on the protection of health in conflict in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2286.