James Buchan | University Technology Sydney/Queen Margaret University Edinburgh
He is an Adjunct Professor at the WHO Collaborating Centre, University of Technology, (UTS), in Sydney, Australia; at Queen Margaret University, in Scotland; at IHMT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal; and a Policy Associate at the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems.
He has thirty years’ experience of policy research on health sector human resource. Recently, he directly worked with several organizations, include OECD, WHO (Europe, Western Pacific, South East Asia, and HQ), ILO and the World Bank.
His background includes periods as a senior HR manager in the National Health Service in Scotland; senior policy analyst at the Royal College of Nursing, (RCN), UK; HRH specialist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland; and most recently as a specialist adviser to Health Workforce Australia, a federal government agency.
His other current commitments include being Associate Editor of the peer review journal “Human Resources for Health”.
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