PHM-Exch> Introduction: Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA2015, UK

[Neil Pakenham-Walsh, UK]

Dear all on phm-exchange

Greetings. I have just joined and would like to introduce myself.

I'm based in the UK and am interested in the potential of global 
interdsiciplinary networking to help address complex health 
challenges. I'm especially interested in finding ways to address the 
information and learning needs of healthcare providers in low and 
middle income countries. These (and other) needs must be addressed to 
empower health workers to realise progressively the right to 
evidence-based health care for all.

I run a global email discussion forum called Healthcare Information 
For All by 2015. It's a group of 3500 professionals from 2000 
organisations in 158 countries, ranging from staff at WHO 
headquarters to rural community health workers in Uganda. Our common 
goal is to to eradicate the daily toll of death and suffering that 
result from lack of availability to basic healthcare knowledge in 
low-income countries. We communicate on three forums, the main one 
being called HIFA2015 (the other two are CHILD2015 - child health - 
and HIFA-Portuguese for Portuguese-speaking countries, in 
collaboration with WHO). We recently launched a new forum on the 
information needs of health policymakers in francophone African 
countries, in collaboration with EVIPNet at WHO (Evidence for 
Informed Policy Making).

To join, and to find out more, see: www.hifa2015.org

I look forward to discussions on (and cross-pollination with) phm-exchange.

Best wishes,
Neil

Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh MB,BS, DCH, DRCOG
Coordinator, HIFA2015
Co-director, Global Healthcare Information Network
16 Woodfield Drive
Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3SE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1608 811338
Email: <mailto:neil.pakenham-walsh at ghi-net.org>neil.pakenham-walsh at ghi-net.org
HIFA2015: http://www.hifa2015.org

Join HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 - send your name, organisation and brief 
description of your professional interests to 
hifa2015-admin at dgroups.org and child2015-admin at dgroups.org (or direct 
to Neil PW at 
<mailto:neil.pakenham-walsh at ghi-net.org>neil.pakenham-walsh at ghi-net.org )

"Healthcare Information For All by 2015: By 2015, every person 
worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider"

With thanks to our 2011 financial supporters: British Medical 
Association, CABI, International Child Health Group (Royal College of 
Paediatrics and Child Health), Joanna Briggs Institute, Network for 
Information and Digital Access, Public Library of Science, 
Rockefeller Foundation (Monitoring & Evaluation), Royal College of 
Midwives, Royal College of Nursing, Tropical Health and Education Trust
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