Dear colleagues,
I would like to share a brief video presentation by Martin Carroll
(British Medical Association) on the global movement Healthcare
Information For All (HIFA).
Please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoBR8XeapyI
Martin describes the Ebola crisis - and indeed the loss of tens of
thousands of young lives daily from common illnesses - as the result
of a collective failure of global health research, publication,
training, and health education.
HIFA now has almost 14,000 members on 5 discussion forums in 3
languages, in collaboration with WHO and others. Join us here (free):
www.hifa2015.org
Best wishes,
Neil
Lets build a future where people are no longer dying for lack of
healthcare knowledge - Join HIFA: www.hifa2015.org
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is the coordinator of the HIFA
campaign (Healthcare Information For All) and co-director of the
Global Healthcare Information Network. He is also currently chair of
the Dgroups Foundation (www.dgroups.info), a partnership of 18
international development organisations promoting dialogue for
international health and development. He started his career as a
hospital doctor in the UK, and has clinical experience as an isolated
health worker in rural Ecuador and Peru. For the last 20 years he
has been committed to the global challenge of improving the
availability and use of relevant, reliable healthcare information for
health workers and citizens in low- and middle-income countries. He
is also interested in the wider potential of inclusive,
interdisciplinary communication platforms to help address global
health and international development challenges. He has worked with
the World Health Organization, the Wellcome Trust, Medicine Digest
and INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications). He is based near Oxford, UK.
www.hifa2015.org neil.pakenham-walsh AT ghi-net.org
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