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Satellite Meeting Call for Papers (Sponsor: The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and Institutions Health and Biosciences Libraries Section)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday 23 August 2018
Theme: Evidence for global and disaster health - where are we now and where do we need to be
Evidence for Global & Disaster Health is a new IFLA special interest group, [E4GDH]. E4GDH will contribute to this year's WLIC theme of "Transform Libraries, Transform Societies" with a satellite meeting exploring how libraries in health
and allied sectors can play an increasing role in programs to reduce disaster risk, loss of life, livelihoods and health.
Innovative models to support global and disaster health are emerging and a recent evidence briefing showed that library and information centres have a very important role to play in terms of providing support during, and after disasters.
We invite anyone with an interest or experience related to this theme to submit abstracts, and later full papers, particularly those which provide transferable examples of current practice, or which outline the developments needed to build
skills, partnerships and resilience.
We are keen to enable sharing and learning from different perspectives and so welcome submissions from a wide range of roles including librarians and information officers; health and public health professionals; systematic reviewers; humanitarian
and voluntary sector workers, and relief coordinators.
Abstracts are invited for either full papers or for lightning talks.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Monday 12 March 2018
See the full call for papers on the IFLA WLIC 2018 website.
[https://2018.ifla.org/cfp-calls/evidence-for-global-and-disaster-health-special-interest-group]
Mrs Caroline De Brún, DipLIS, PhD
Knowledge & Evidence Specialist – South West and Thames Valley
Knowledge & Library Services
Public Health England
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