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The November 2025 supplement of Healthcare Management Forum (HMF) is dedicated to health workforce data and is sponsored by the Canadian Health Workforce Network. Timely and accurate health workforce data provides health leaders with the foundation for making informed decisions about their communities and how to recruit, train, and retain healthcare workers to meet current and future population demands.
The Canadian Health Workforce Network is a knowledge creation and mobilization network of researchers, decision-makers and other knowledge users with expertise in health workforce planning, policy, and management.
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In this edition:
GUEST EDITOR
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, FCAHS, is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies and University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions at the University of Ottawa. She leads the Canadian Health Workforce Network.
WEBINAR
Join us for a sponsored webinar on November 13 at noon EDT with Kienan Williams as he discusses workforce surveys from an Indigenous employee perspective (What), identifies legislation and taxation considerations for health workforce leaders regarding Indigenous employees (So What), and shares organizational measurement tools and promising practices (Now What). This webinar also offers promising practices for non-Indigenous organizations to consider when recruiting and retaining an Indigenous workforce. Indigenous Peoples have unique legislative considerations as employees that may have implications for researchers and health leaders.
BLOG
Read the sponsored blog by Sarah Simkin, MD, as she talks about how raw data and indicators of population need and workforce capacity can be transformed into usable intelligence that can support decision-making. Using the case study of integrated primary care workforce planning in Toronto, she discusses a workforce planning framework that focuses on workforce analysis and describes the inputs and outputs that are needed for planning, including the key steps in the conversion of data to intelligence and the impact of the approach. This blog builds on her article in the November 2025 supplement of Healthcare Management Forum in which she and her co-authors highlight the important challenges related to data standardization, comprehensiveness, granularity, and accessibility and timeliness. Simkin is a physician and health workforce researcher at the University of Ottawa.
VIDEO
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