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Dear EBHC colleagues, Evidence-based health care is clearly impossible without access to evidence. Evidence generated in low- and middle-income countries is especially valuable to inform policy and practice in LMICs. I would like to invite you to join HIFA (Healthcare Information For All) for a thematic discussion around an important and neglected question: How can health research from low- and middle-income countries be made more accessible? The discussion starts on Monday 6 June and will continue through to 3 July. This thematic discussion will build on previous discussions that led to the Manila Declaration on the Availability and Use of Health Research Information in and for Low- and Middle-income Countries (26 August 2015) [http://www.wpro.who.int/entity/apame/publications/en/]. For further information, and to join, see: http://www.hifa2015.org/2016/06/03/new-hifa-thematic-discussion-how-can-health-research-from-lmics-be-made-more-accessible/ About HIFA: HIFA (Healthcare Information For All) is a professional global health network working in collaboration with WHO. It has more than 15,000 health workers, librarians, publishers, researchers and policymakers, committed to accelerate progress towards the HIFA vision: a world where every person has access to the healthcare information they need to protect their own health and the health of others. HIFA members represent more than 2500 organisations in 175 countries worldwide, and interact on five global discussion forums in three languages (English, French, Portuguese). Best wishes, Neil Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator On behalf of the HIFA Access to Health Research working group (HIFA Access to Health Research is one of eight HIFA projects led by HIFA volunteers.) http://www.hifa2015.org/meeting-the-information-needs-of-researchers-and-users-of-health-research-2/ Acknowledgements: We are grateful to The Lancet, COHRED, and APAME for supporting the thematic discussion in 2015. We are also grateful to Elsevier, The Lancet and mPowering Frontline Health Workers for their ongoing support for the HIFA Voices database (hifavoices.org). Elsevier has provided funding for the HIFA Access to Health Research initiative. This funding goes solely to pay for the time of the HIFA coordinator and not to any of the working group, all of whom are volunteers. Let's 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 - www.hifa.org ) and current chair of the Dgroups Foundation (www.dgroups.info). Twitter: @hifa_org FB: facebook.com/HIFAdotORG [log in to unmask]