Workforce Well-being Committee

The Workforce Well-being Committee creates awareness of the impact of occupational stress on our profession and implements for its prevention and management. 

Key Committee Aims:

• Develop educational and training materials to support Workforce Well-being. 
• Support and develop WFSA publications and educational activity covering Workforce Well-being. 
• Ensure WFSA guidelines and standards relevant to Workforce Well-being are appropriate. 
• Seek funding and other support for WFSA’s activities related to Workforce Well-being and work to expand those activities. 

2024-2026 Workforce Well-being Committee Activities:

• Championed WFSA’s 2024 Annual Theme: Workforce Well-being 
• 2024 Annual Theme Webinars: 
  • The ageing anaesthesiologist: we need a strategy (July 2024) 
  • World Anaesthesia Day: yoga for well-being (October 2024) 
  • World Anaesthesia Day: Enhancing Workforce Well-being: Advocate, Collaborate, Educate, and Mentor (October 2024) 
• Update in Anaesthesia Special Edition: Workforce Well-being (Volume 39)
• Supporting WFSA’s Global Anaesthesia Mentorship Programme 

Additional Resources:

• Chemical dependence in anaesthesiologists: the actuality 

Members of the Workforce Well-being Committee:

Chair
Rodrigo Lopez Barreda	Chile
Africa and the Middle East
Maryrose Osazuwa	Nigeria
Eugene Tuyishime	Rwanda
Asia
Chow Yen Yong	Malaysia
Muralidhar Thondebhavi Subbaramaiahin	India
Lei Zhao	China
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
Susan Nicoll	New Zealand
Moira Rush	Australia
Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands
María Eugenia Veras	Guatemala
Smita LA Almeida	Cayman Islands
Europe
Szederjesi Janos	Romania
Marina Varela Duran	Spain
North America
Rebecca McGoldrick	USA