Global Health Workforce Alliance welcomes health workforce commitments to reach MDGs
30th September 2008
“The Global Health Workforce Alliance welcomes the pledges of commitment expressed at the United Nations High Level Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals and surrounding events that place resolving the health workforce crisis at the centre of ensuring progress on improving maternal and child health and addressing killer diseases such as malaria….”
Full statement:
http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/news/mdghlm_commitments/en/index.html
HIFA2015 welcomes five new Supporting Organisations
11th September 2008
Bellagio meeting on Access to Health Information: Report now available
29th July 2008
The report by the ‘Access to health information and knowledge sharing’ group in Bellagio is now available as a 7-minute video presentation by Mzamose Gondwe, Managing Editor of TropIKA Reviews, Malawi:
http://ehealth-connection.org/content/week-two-closing-address-access-information-knowledge-sharing
Bellagio meeting: Access to health information and knowledge-sharing
16th July 2008
The Rockefeller Foundation is holding a meeting on ‘Access to health information and knowledge-sharing’, 21-24 July 2008.
This important meeting has the potential to contribute significantly towards Healthcare Information For All by 2015: “The Access to Health Information conference week will build support for access to health information in the Global South by:
Looking broadly at health information access solutions, experiences, and lessons learned
Highlighting knowledge about and evidence of the ability of health information access to improve patient safety, equity, and health care quality
Discussing state-of-the-art practices, tools, and avenues for further eHealth proliferation in the Global South
Examining barriers to access and publishing health quality information
Exploring the role of social networks, collaborative spaces, communities of practice, and virtual communities
Seeding global alliances and networks on e-information access and
policies.”
For further details, see http://ehealth-connection.org/
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Three more organisations support HIFA2015
8th July 2008
Three more organisations have officially joined the campaign as HIFA2015 Supporting Organisations:
New HIFA2015 website launches today!
1st July 2008
Welcome to the new HIFA2015 website! A big thank you to all HIFA2015 volunteers who have helped create the site, and special thanks to HIFA2015 website developer Jeff Van Campen, logo and website designer Nadia Hussain, and webmaster Mike Jackson. We aim to develop this site substantially over the coming months. Please let us know what you would like to see. With thanks from the HIFA2015 Steering Group.
