This brief presents the issues discussed during the Bridging the Gap: Addressing Youth Unemployment and the Global Health Worker Shortage Virtual Roundtable held in April 2022. This meeting was organized by USAID's Global Health Bureau/Office of HIV/AIDS in collaboration with the Democracy, Development, and Innovation (DDI) Bureau/Center for Economic and Market Development (EMD), DDI/Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Hub, and DDI/Education. The discussion sought to identify how the private sector and USAID might work together to expand youth employment in the health and social sectors, understand stakeholder perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of engaging and employing youth in these sectors, and identify pathways for public-private collaboration to bridge the gap. The audience for this report is USAID, participants of the Roundtable, and private sector partners broadly in support of private sector engagement in workforce development opportunities supporting youth.

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