Lack of skilled and qualified workforce to ensure high quality of healthcare is one of the main challenges in health systems around the world. Such workforce crises require new ways of thinking, planning and implementation where knowledge from interdisciplinary research teams (spanning from healthcare professionals and sociologists to economists, operational science and management experts) will become increasingly important. These new ideas include task-sharing / task-shifting between different cadres of health and social care professionals, new compositions of skill-mix, adoption of new technology which could complement and enable limited workforce, particularly in the rural and hardship areas. One of the key moves to solve the health workforce problems by Dr. Leckcivilize during his Tsuha fellowship  is to establish data infrastructure for long-term workforce planning in Thailand. Good quality longitudinal data (a combination of survey and administrative data) would enable researchers and policy makers to follow career trajectories of different cadres, their movement and retention, and plan the workforce in the long term with supports from evidence. Moreover, better data at local and regional level (ideally including professionals in private sector and those who do moonlighting practices) would enable whole-system planning that focuses on how to create and maintain a multidisciplinary care team with the right support from the suitable type(s) of technology in Thailand.