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Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health,…

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Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world.

Introduced: May 18, 2017 See on congress.gov
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Reaffirms the critical role of frontline health workers in achieving core global health goals.

Commends U.S. progress in helping to build local capacity and save lives in the world's most vulnerable communities by training and supporting such workers.

Urges greater global attention and support for such workers to ensure their protection and their ability to respond effectively during humanitarian and public health crises and to safeguard the health of the world's most vulnerable populations.

Calls on all relevant federal agencies to develop a health workforce strengthening action plan with concrete targets for increasing equitable access to qualified health workers in low- and middle-income countries to support the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 and recommendations of the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth.

What's happening now May 18, 2017

Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Res. 342: Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HRES-342/
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"H. Res. 342: Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HRES-342/.
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H. Res. 342, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HRES-342/.
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[H. Res. 342: Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world.](https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HRES-342/)
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