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Received: 17 August 2018

Accepted: 17 September 2018

First Online: 12 October 2018

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: <b>Claudia B. Maier</b> is a health workforce and health systems researcher at <i>Technische Universität Berlin</i>. Her research focuses on the nursing and health workforce in Europe, skill-mix innovations, the changing roles of nurses, migration of health professionals and health systems research. From 2014 to 2015, Maier spent one year in the U.S. at the University of Pennsylvania as a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. Prior work experience included cross-country research, policy evaluation and dialogues at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the European Commission, a state-level Institute of Public Health in Germany, the World Health Organization, and the University of Bielefeld, Germany.<b>Hannah Budde</b> is a research assistant at Technische Universität Berlin and a graduate in European Public Health from Maastricht University. Her research focuses on public health services for vulnerable populations, which she will further deepen in the field of international social and public policy as part of her graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.<b>James Buchan</b> is an Adjunct Professor at University of Technology, Sydney. He has worked extensively as a policy researcher and consultant on nurse workforce issues in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. He is Editor in Chief of the journal “Human Resources for Health”. His background includes periods as a senior manager in the National Health Service in Scotland; senior policy analyst at the Royal College of Nursing, (RCN), UK; and as a specialist adviser to Health Workforce Australia, a federal government agency. Most recently he has completed a contract as Senior Adviser- Human Resources for Health, WHO European Region.

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