Who Trains, Who Retains?Attracting and Keeping Health Workers Across Border

Public round table on health worker mobility: who pays to train them, what keeps them, and what fair mobility looks like. Free.

This public round table closes the X Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing with a debate on the international mobility of health professionals: who pays for training them, where they end up practising, and what destination and origin countries can do so that mobility works for health systems on both sides. It brings together a global health-workforce policy perspective, a hospital management perspective and the experience of doctors who have moved across borders.

Panel

• James Avoka Asamani — Team Lead for Health Workforce, WHO African Region, Brazzaville
• Alexandre Lourenço — Health Management Professor, National School of Public Health; President of the European Association of Hospital Managers
• Beatriz Blasio — General Surgeon, Blasio&Cordeiro LDA
• Carolina Di Fabrizio — Gynaecologist and Obstetrician
• Moderator: Carolina Santos — Postdoctoral Researcher, Nova SBE

Programme — Wednesday 18 November 2026

• 14:15 Arrival and registration
• 14:30 Opening — Pedro Oliveira, Dean, Nova School of Business and Economics
• 14:45 Institutional remarks — Artur Santos Silva, Member of the Board of Trustees, "la Caixa" Foundation
• 15:00 Framing the debate and presentation of the panel
• 15:15 Opening interventions by the panel
• 16:00 Moderated discussion: Who trains? Who retains? What would fair mobility look like?
• 17:00 Questions from the audience
• 17:20 Closing remarks — Pedro Pita Barros, BPI | "la Caixa" Foundation Professor in Health Economics, Nova SBE
• 17:35 End

Free and open to the public; registration required. Workshop participants who ticked the round table in the workshop form are already registered.