Welcome to the "Strengthening Health Workforce Information Systems" community of practice. The purpose of this global discussion forum is to facilitate dialogue among experts and stakeholders in health workforce (human resources for health) data and statistics in order to collectively discuss challenges and opportunities for strengthening health workforce information and monitoring systems. The community joins together members and stakeholders from around the world to share tools and resources as well as local and international experiences on effective practices, success stories, lessons learnt, issues and concerns in health workforce information. The creation of this forum is an initiative of the Health Workforce Information Reference Group (HIRG), under the auspices of the World Health Organization's Department of Human Resources for Health, the Health Metrics Network and the Global Health Workforce Alliance.