Health and technology magazine editorial: global CE day 2021

Clinical Engineering practitioners around the world (800,000 plus in 130 countries according to the World Health Organization-WHO’s 2018 survey) have rallied around the profession locally and globally during COVID19 in 2020–2021 to make a huge difference in healthcare delivery. CED and GCEA’s collaboration also has aligned with several global entities of note, such as the International Hospital Federation, the Every Breath Counts Coalition, the Gates Foundation, and many other NGOs in our common efforts to ensure health technologies are appropriately selected, deployed, and sustained to improve the quality and safety of healthcare delivery around the world every day. Because the use of health technologies has never been greater and therefore the need for local and global clinical engineering expertise continues to expand.