Nigeria faces a severe shortage of skilled health workers.1 Nigeria has a density of only 1·83 skilled health workers per 1000 people, which falls far short of WHO's recommendation of 4·45 per 1000 people.1 With a population expected to reach 263 million by 2030 and a growing trend of medical professionals leaving the country, this problem is poised to worsen unless addressed effectively.1 In response, the Nigerian Government approved a new national policy on health workforce migration on Aug 12, 2024.

When I spoke to Emily Chan, she had just returned from a work trip to Timor-Leste as Chief Executive Officer of the GX Foundation, a Chinese non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Hong Kong that provides medical humanitarian assistance in Belt and Road Initiative countries. Before that trip, Chan was overseeing the Foundation's work in Honduras and Senegal. Alongside her NGO role, she wears many other hats, including Professor (Clinical) at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), founding and current Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), Director of the CUHK Centre for Global Health, and Assistant Dean (External Affairs) for the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK.

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