ThemeCaring for the Caregiver: Investing in Health to Build a Resilient Workforce
Until Ghana's landmark conference on health worker wellbeing
Their health, safety and wellbeing directly influence patient safety, quality of care, workforce productivity and organisational performance.
The Human Resources for Health Wellbeing Conference 2026 brings together healthcare leaders, policymakers, human resource professionals, occupational health practitioners, researchers and frontline health workers to explore practical, evidence-based solutions for building healthier and more resilient healthcare workplaces.
The conference positions wellbeing as a strategic institutional priority, not simply a staff welfare initiative. Healthy, engaged and supported employees are more productive, experience less burnout and absenteeism, and contribute directly to improved patient safety and clinical outcomes.
To position employee wellbeing as a strategic institutional priority that strengthens workforce resilience, enhances organisational performance, and improves patient care.
Investing in Health to Build a Resilient Workforce
When healthcare workers are healthy, supported and resilient, they are better positioned to provide safe, compassionate and high-quality care.
A healthier workforce. A stronger health system. Better patient outcomes.
Doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, managers and support staff from hospitals, clinics and health institutions across Ghana, public and private. Wherever you care for people, this conference is for you.
Employee wellbeing is not a soft benefit sitting at the edge of the organisation. It runs straight through the middle of everything a hospital is measured on.
Healthier staff take fewer sick days and stay well enough to stay in service.
Supported clinicians carry the emotional weight of the work without breaking under it.
Rested, supported teams make fewer errors and take fewer risks.
People stay where they are cared for. Retention is a wellbeing outcome.
Engagement rises when staff believe the institution is invested in them.
The wellbeing of the caregiver is felt directly at the bedside.
Compassionate care is difficult to sustain from an empty tank.
3 December 2026 · Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. The full timed programme will be published here as speakers are confirmed.
The conference opens with the formal commemoration of two years of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Employee Assistance Programme.
How investment in employee wellbeing returns measurable value to a health system, and why it belongs on the executive agenda rather than the welfare agenda.
The responsibility of leaders, directors and line managers in building workplace cultures where staff are genuinely supported.
A cross-sector panel drawn from hospital leadership, regulation, government and academia.
An open exhibition floor running alongside the conference: health screening, wellness services and partner stands.
The closing session, dedicated to the partnerships the conference is designed to start.
The Secretariat is confirming a keynote speaker, guest speakers, panellists, moderators and workshop facilitators. This page updates as each confirmation comes in. Register for updates and you will be the first to know.
Interested in speaking, moderating or facilitating a workshop? Write to the Secretariat at eap@kbth.gov.gh.
Health workers from every hospital, clinic and health institution in Ghana are welcome to register, not only Korle Bu staff. Registration is free. Participation is subject to confirmation. Successful registrants will receive confirmation by email.
The conference commemorates the second anniversary of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Employee Assistance Programme, and the staff who trusted it.
Korle Bu became one of the first public health institutions in Ghana to run a structured, confidential employee assistance service for its own staff.
Referrals, management consultations and wellbeing education expanded across directorates as staff confidence in the service grew.
The Programme marks its second anniversary, and uses the moment to move staff wellbeing from a programme initiative to a strategic institutional agenda.
Private, professional counselling for personal and work-related concerns.
Support through bereavement, crisis, trauma and life transitions.
Workshops and sensitisation on stress, burnout and mental health at work.
Advisory support for managers handling staff wellbeing concerns in their units.
Targeted interventions where team conflict, strain or distress is affecting a unit.
A first point of contact for any member of staff who needs help.
Running alongside the conference: health screening, wellness services, and the organisations building healthier workplaces across Ghana.
Organisations showcasing practical workplace wellbeing services.
On-site screening for delegates throughout the conference day.
Guidance, materials and referral pathways for psychological support.
Providers offering staff wellbeing programmes to institutions.
Diagnostic and laboratory partners with delegate offerings.
Specialists in occupational health and employee assistance.
Development partners, NGOs and professional bodies.
Bring your organisation to the Wellness Village.
Book an Exhibition SpaceThis conference is convened by Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and carried by its partners. Whether you want your name on the day itself or your people on the exhibition floor, there is a route in, and a person at the Secretariat ready to talk it through.
Underwrite the conference and put your organisation's name to the national conversation on health worker wellbeing. It appears across the branding, the programme and the platform that outlives the day.
Take a stand in the Wellness Village, the exhibition floor running alongside the conference, and meet healthcare professionals and institutional decision-makers face to face, all day.
Four packages, each built around how visible you want to be on the day. Every tier carries branding, recognition in the programme and delegate places for your own people.
GHS 50,000
Exclusive Principal Partner
GHS 40,000
Major Partner
Sponsor at this tierGHS 25,000
Supporting Partner
Sponsor at this tierGHS 15,000
Contributing Partner
Sponsor at this tierPrefer to underwrite a single part of the conference? Each component below can be sponsored individually, with recognition attached to it throughout the day.
Tell us which package interests you and the Secretariat will send the full sponsorship pack, with the deliverables and deadlines for each tier.
Showcase your organisation to an audience of healthcare professionals and institutional decision-makers, on a floor built around staying well.
Tell us what you would bring and the Secretariat will send the exhibitor pack, with stand sizes, the floor plan and what is included.
The conference closes with four deliverables designed to outlive the day itself.
A practical handbook putting wellbeing responsibilities into the hands of line managers.
A standing network of staff advocates carrying the agenda into every directorate.
Wellbeing measured, published and tracked year on year like any other institutional priority.
A national statement on health workforce wellbeing, issued at the close of the conference.
This platform is intended as the digital home of the health workforce wellbeing movement at Korle Bu, not a single conference page.
The first annual national reference on the state of health worker wellbeing.
A permanent institutional home for employee assistance and workforce wellbeing.
A recurring national platform for dialogue, evidence and collaboration.
To be listed here, write to the Conference Secretariat at eap@kbth.gov.gh.
Free to register · Participation by confirmation
Completing the form registers your interest in attending. The Secretariat reviews every registration and confirms successful participants by email.
Human Resources for Health Wellbeing Conference 2026
Employee Assistance Programme
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
Accra, Ghana
Caring for the Caregiver. Building a Resilient Health Workforce. Improving Patient Outcomes.
