[afro-nets] Healthcare Information For All by 2015: HIFA2015 email forum launches today

["Neil Pakenham-Walsh" <neilpw@doctors.org.uk>]

Healthcare Information For All by 2015: HIFA2015 email forum launches today
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Dear AFRO-nets colleagues,

I would like to invite you to join a new email group, HIFA2015, which is launching today.

I attach details below.

Best wishes,
Neil

Neil Pakenham-Walsh MB,BS
Coordinator, Global Healthcare Information Network
16 Woodfield Drive
Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3SE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1608 811338
Web: http://www.ghi-net.org
Email: mailto:neil.pakenham-walsh@ghi-net.org

HIFA2015: Healthcare Information For All by 2015

HIFA2015 is a new global email discussion group with an ambitious but achievable goal: 'By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider'.

The group will provide a neutral discussion space for all those with an interest in the creation, exchange and use of relevant, practical healthcare information for family carers, primary health workers, and district-level healthcare providers in developing and transitional countries. It will complement the existing CHILD2015 group (http://www.dgroups.org/groups/child2015), which focuses on the information and learning needs of those responsible for the healthcare of children.

HIFA2015 will be the principal communication tool for the global campaign, 'Healthcare Information For All by 2015', which launches formally in Mombasa, Kenya, on 26th October 2006, at the 10th Congress of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa. HIFA2015 is goal-driven and action-oriented: together we want to move beyond dialogue towards collective understanding and effective action. For further details, see http://www.ghi-net.org/campaign

HIFA2015 will initially be managed and moderated by the Global Healthcare Information Network (www.ghi-net.org), on behalf of the HIFA2015 Interim Steering Group. You can be assured that all messages that you receive will be relevant, readable, and understandable.

HIFA2015 is open to anyone with an interest in improving healthcare in developing countries and membership is free. Join today: send an email to mailto:HIFA2015-admin@dgroups.org with your name, organization, and a brief description of your professional interests.

To post a message to the group, email mailto:HIFA2015@dgroups.org

Neil Pakenham-Walsh
Interim Coordinator, HIFA2015 Campaign

Further details:
HIFA2015 website: http://www.dgroups.org/groups/HIFA2015/
HIFA2015 moderators: mailto:HIFA2015-admin@dgroups.org

HIFA2015 profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of the Global Healthcare Information Network, a non-profit organization that supports the goal of 'Healthcare Information For All by 2015' (http://www.ghi-net.org/campaign). He has a special interest in the availability and use of relevant, reliable healthcare information in developing countries, especially at primary and district levels. He qualified as a doctor in 1983 and worked for 6 years in NHS hospital medicine, including 2 years in paediatrics. In 1990 he moved into medical publishing and worked with the World Health Organization, Medicine Digest, and the Wellcome Trust CD-ROM series 'Topics in International Health'. From 1996 to 2004 he developed and managed the INASP-Health programme (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) and the eForum, HIF-net (Health Information Forum). He has worked as a medical officer in rural Ecuador and Peru, and in 2005 he worked alongside rural healthcare providers in South India to assess local priorities in access and use of health information. neil.pakenham-walsh@ghi-net.org  

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Neil Pakenham-Walsh 
mailto:neilpw@doctors.org.uk