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]
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