How your organisation can benefit and help us to achieve our goal

Benefits for your organisation

  • Engage directly with over 4000 health professionals, librarians, publishers, policymakers and researchers in 157 countries worldwide
  • Harness our collective experience and expertise to help achieve your goals
  • Raise global awareness of your organisation.

    Current projects

  • The British Medical Association is providing general support for HIFA2015 with a grant of £10,000
  • The International Child Health Group is providing support for the CHILD2015 Forum with a grant of £1000
  • The Royal College of Nurses and Royal College of Midwives are supporting the HIFA Annual Challenge with a grant of £1000 each
  • The British Medical Association is supporting a HIFA2015 Priority Topic* - Childhood Pneumonia, including focused global discussion and HIFA2015 web module development - with a grant of £500.



    • *Other HIFA2015 Priority Topics for which we need funding include:
    • Reducing maternal mortality and morbidity
    • Child pain relief / HIV/AIDS / diarrhoea / malaria / malnutrition / child protection / newborn care
    • Adult HIV/AIDS / tuberculosis / diabetes / epilepsy / palliative care
    • Meeting the information and learning needs of community health workers / nurses / midwives / parents
    • How to improve relevance and reliability of health information using mobile phones / television / radio / print / newspapers / internet.

    Collaboration

    We welcome proposals for collaboration. Examples of current collaborations include:
    1. Access to Health Information under International Human Rights Law (collaboration with New York Law School)
    2. Health Information and the Positive Practice Environment (collaboration with the PPE Campaign, administered by the International Council of Nurses with the World Medical Association and other global professional agencies)
    3. HIFA2015 Knowledge Base (collaboration with University of Toronto, with technical support from the World Health Organization)

    HIFA2015 Supporting Organisations

    Over 90 leading health organisations worldwide have officially declared their support for the HIFA2015 goal. Apply here to become a HIFA2015 Supporting Organisation

    All collaborations and support will be appropriately acknowledged and publicised.

    Please contact us to discuss any of the above or other ideas you may have. Help us to build a world where people are no longer dying from lack of knowledge.

    Thank you

    Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator
    On behalf of the Global Healthcare Information Network and the HIFA2015 Steering Group.