Background

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EMMS International is dedicated to improving healthcare in the most hard-to-reach areas in Nepal, Malawi, India, Rwanda, Zambia and Scotland. By supporting women within those communities to gain healthcare qualifications, we are reducing the impact of sex inequality while promoting academic study and developing sustainable care for the most vulnerable families. We have supported women to enter the healthcare profession and celebrated medical excellence for over a century.

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The countries in which we work face critical shortages of health workers. According to World Bank data, the number of nurses/midwives per 1,000 patients in the UK is 10.3. By contrast it is only 0.4 in Malawi, 3.3 in Nepal, and 2.4 in India. One of the best ways we can remain focused on women’s health, equality and opportunity, is by increasing the number of women, and in particular financially vulnerable women, in healthcare leadership positions.

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"The financial value of women’s input into (global) health systems is estimated to be over US $3 trillion annually. Yet women’s contributions to health and the health labour market remain markedly undervalued. Women in health tend to be clustered into lower status, low paid, and often unpaid roles. Sustainable development needs to better value women’s contributions to population’s physical, social and mental wellbeing... Gender equity is key to building resilient health systems and gender transformative health and social care policies are key to achieving gender equality globally."

- World Health Organisation

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Our Healthcare Career Pathways build and sustain a dedicated and highly-educated healthcare workforce. They make use of our unique international partnerships and expert knowledge of healthcare systems in hard-to-reach communities to identify specific gaps in local health work forces.​