Thursday 25 February 2021

IPR.Global Press Release - Building Resilience in Health Care in the time of COVID-19 through Collaboration - A Call to Action


February 24th, 2021

Dear Regional, National, and International Leaders, Educators, Researchers, Networks, and Colleagues: 

InterprofessionalResearch.Global (The Global Network for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Research) has published "Building Resilience in Health Care in the time of COVID-19 through Collaboration - A Call to Action".

This Call to Action is developed by the IPR.Global COVID-19 Taskforce – Resilience Initiative Group with number of global experts in healthcare resiliency and interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) who have been working together over the past 10 months to develop and share relevant and timely information.

This Call to Action is the latest publication of the Taskforce with the goal to raise awareness and urge the global health care communities to act strategic and bold, by using system approach, to address the imminent threat of a parallel burnout pandemic through collaboration. This Call to Action provides a global strategy in using collaboration to build and lead resilience in health care at all levels, from individuals and teams to organizations and systems.

Please follow this link to read and download the Call to Action. We encourage everyone to help us in widely distributing this Call to Action publication among your local, regional, and national health care authorities and decision-makers.

To facilitate the global conversation in building and leading resilience in health care, the IPR.Global is hosting two similar webinars as following:

  • March 29th, 2021 at 9-10am CT
  • March 31st, 2021 at 4-5pm CT

To join a Webinar, please RSVP here by March 22nd, 2021.

To learn more about IPR.Global, please visit us at https://interprofessionalresearch.global/.

Hossein Khalili, BScN, MScN, PhD, FNAP, President, IPR.Global; Director, UW CIPE, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dean Lising, PT, MHSc, BScPT, BScBio,  Co-Chair, IPR.Global COVID-19 Taskforce - Resilience Initiative