Healthcare leaders across the world consistently rank staff shortages as their most pressing concern. From the US and Canada to major parts of Europe, several reasons such as a growing aging population, an aging health workforce, rapid increases in chronic diseases, and the limited capacity of health education programs continue to impair timely healthcare delivery.

Similarly, about half of all countries do not meet the basic standard density of healthcare workers of 23 skilled health professionals per 10,000 people. Of the 80 million health workers that the world will need to meet the demands of the global population by the end of the decade, without intervention, the world will be short of 18 million health care workers by 2030. Nurses and midwives make up half of this gap.

Simply put, there are just not enough healthcare professionals to take care of humanity.

The urgency and scale of this need was why we began District, a next-generation college delivering world-class education in healthcare’s most in-demand roles to everyone, everywhere. Our mission is to make the world healthier by building skilled healthcare professionals for critical and urgent global roles.

Working with a proven faculty and a robust curriculum, our programs are curated based on deep insights that ensure impact at scale. We also engage retired healthcare professionals to mentor future practitioners and bridge important knowledge gaps.

As a sector with the fastest-growing demand yet biggest drop in workforce, our focus on healthcare helps us solve two fundamental problems - declining healthcare delivery and unemployment.

District’s programs facilitate global employment opportunities for talents seeking to do impactful work, while improving the quality and safety of lives for others. Our big goal is to have trained 200,000 essential healthcare workers by 2030 and hit 1 million by 2040.

With a clear understanding that over 70% of the global health and social workforce are women, we are deliberate in our efforts to empower and actively support 10,000 women each from Africa and the Asia-Pacific to launch and advance their careers.

We continue to count on our stakeholders, including investors, partners, instructors, students and regulators for their unwavering support.

With love from all of us at District,