Healthcare Information For All by 2015
‘By 2015, every person worldwide will have access
to an informed healthcare provider’
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contacts between members.
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verify the accuracy of information provided by members for the Directory.
Funmi Abokede works with the Women and Development
Movement,
Patrick Abuya is Director of Centre for Health Social
Research (chsr),
Uzodinma
Adirieje is Programs
Director and Trustee with Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet
Association,
afrepton AT yahoo.com
Grace Ajuwon
is the Reference and Information Services Librarian at the
Emmanuel
E. Akpo is a
consultant general surgeon. He has served in various healthcare positions in
Africa including the Nigerian director of an American-based healthcare NGO
(Christian Medical Fellowship) involved in free healthcare delivery to rural
Nigerian communities and the Nigerian coordinator of G77 South-South Healthcare
Delivery Programme in Sierra Leone. He also has served as the head of Surgery
in Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, Kambia Government
hospital (Sierra Leone) and Eastern regional hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone. He
is currently a lecturer in the department of surgery at the University of Jos,
Nigeria and the President and CEO of Global Medical Missions, Jos, Nigeria.
Global Medical Missions is a Christian-based not-for-profit charity
organisation. It aims to alleviate poverty in rural African communities through
free healthcare delivery through volunteers. The services covered include free patient
consultation, drug dispensation, eyeglasses, general, plastic, orthopedic,
maxillofacial, gynecological, ENT, dental and ophthalmological surgeries; HIV
care and support as well as medical instruction. His interest is in
surgical care and ensuring that patients in rural Africa get access to
specialized healthcare services and information that will improve health among
those in very remote communities. marieakpo AT yahoo.com
Stephen Allen is a co-moderator and adviser for the CHILD2015 email discussion
group. He is a Reader in Paediatrics and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at
the School of Medicine, Swansea University, UK. He is the Overseas Director for
Africa for the David Baum International Foundation, and a committee member of
the International Child Health Group, in association with the Royal College of
Paediatrics and Child Health, UK. He has 4 years experience in Papua New Guinea
and 6 years with the Medical Research Council, The Gambia, involved in
training, research and clinical paediatrics. He has developed eLearning in
international health in partnership with colleagues at the University College
Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria (see http://www.medicine.swan.ac.uk/inthealth.html).
s.j.allen AT swansea.ac.uk
Mildred Asiimwe is the Learning Resource Center Coordinator at the African Palliative
Care Association, Kampala, Uganda. Her job mainly involves collecting &
disseminating information about palliative care (especially in Africa), to APCA
members, partners and other stakeholders. mildred.asiimwe AT apca.co.ug
Benjamin
Atkinson works at the
Independence Health Center, Indiana, USA. He is developing a technology
platform for clinicians to build treatment protocol, distribute protocol to
other clinicians and collect outcomes at each clinical encounter.
benjamin.atkinson AT gmail.com
Cheick Oumar
Bagayoko is coordinator of
the RAFT network (Réseau Afrique Francophone de Télémédecine) and is a
specialist in health informatics. He qualified as a medical doctor at the Medical
Faculty of Mali, were he helped develop the telemedicine project Keneya-Blown.
He is based at the Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland. cob281 AT yahoo.fr
Jo Barnes is a medical student at Swansea
University, UK. She spent part of 2005 volunteering in hospitals in Nepal. Her
interests include health education in developing countries, particularly the
availability of nutritional information and prevention of infectious
disease. j.n.barnes.191314 AT swansea.ac.uk
Hektor Binishi is a Specialist of Family Medicine and
Coordinator of Family Medicine Training Centre & Learning Resource Centre,
Gjakova, Kosovo. Interests include implementation of IT in health care, and
evidence based medicine. hbinishi AT yahoo.com
Rakesh Biswas is Associate professor, Department of
Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia. He is a physician
academic trying to merge two worlds, the developing and developed in his day to
day practice.
He has worked in India, Nepal and Malaysia. His interests include Medical
problem solving, education and evidence based telemedicine.
http://www.manipal.edu/melaka/departments/departments.htm
rakesh7biswas
AT gmail.com
Swarnendu
Biswas is a journalist and
writer, presently working in an NGO, based in Noida, India, in the capacity of
Assistant Editor. The name of the NGO is Centre for Science, Development and
Media Studies (CSDMS). Its primary focus is towards advocacy, developing
solutions and dissemination of information and knowledge for the
underprivileged societies through innovative usage of information and
communication technologies (ICT) and geographic information systems (GIS). It
has four publications: egov, Digital Learning, i4d and eHealth. Swarnendu
is responsible for handling the editorial of eHealth. He has a deep desire to
know more about the ongoing healthcare scenario and the prevalent and
futuristic e-Health developments across the globe. swarnendu AT csdms.in
Ibrahima Bob works for the British Embassy in Senegal as
Aid & UK Trade and Investment Officer. He has a solid experience in ICT
project management as regional co-ordinator for the Open Knowledge Network
(OKN) an international programme from the DOTForce process and specialises in
communication for development. He is the immediate past president of AHILA
(Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa). bobibrahim AT
yahoo.com
Jon Brassey is based in the UK and runs a number of
groups, including TRIP Database www.tripdatabase.com ; ATTRACT www.attract.wales.nhs.uk
; and the National Library for Health Q&A Service www.clinicalanswers.nhs.uk.
Jon is interested in allowing easy access to the literature for practicing
clinicians. The TRIP Database is a clinical search engine that is designed with
busy clinicians in mind. The other two services are question answering services
for clinicians in Wales and England. Jon is very interested in moving his
expertise to 'developing' nations. jon.brassey AT gmail.com
Fred Bukachi is a cardiovascular physician with a strong interest in health informatics. He previously worked as HealthNet co-ordinator and regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa. He has also served as a consultant, board member and advisor to several international organizations working to improve access to health information in Africa. He has written and spoken extensively on the subject of using information and communications technologies to access health information in Africa. fred.bukachi AT ghi-net.org.
Ann Burgess is a freelance nutritionist based in
Scotland, UK. She is interested in facilitating the sharing of practical
nutrition information between professionals in developing countries
particularly those in Africa. To this end, she has helped prepare nutrition
manuals and CD-ROMs. annpburgess AT yahoo.co.uk
Mary Burket is Technical Communications Associate with
Pathfinder International, Watertown, MA, USA. Pathfinder International works to
improve the reproductive health of women, men, and adolescents throughout the
developing world. www.pathfind.org
MBurket AT pathfind.org
David Chandler worked as General Manager of TALC
(Teaching-aids at Low Cost - www.talcuk.org) from 1999-2005 and now acts
in an advisory capacity and remains a member of the Executive Committee. He has
also been in involved in advocacy campaigns in the UK. In 1992 he co-founded
with his wife a UK charity for people with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis and
he is currently Chief Executive of a UK based patient healthcare charity. He is
interested in the distribution of healthcare information to those who are most
in need. The material should be inclusive, accessible, appropriate and
sustainable. Lack of access to financial resource should not be a barrier to
healthcare. Raising the education and understanding of diseases and healthcare
allows people to make informed choices and can lead to increased confidence in
decision making and self-help. davidchandler AT btconnect.com
Molly Cheah is a medical doctor and President of the
Primary Care Doctors Organisation, Malaysia (PCDOM). She developed http://pcdom.org.my,
a web-portal that provides information on the practice of primary care in
Malaysia. She was also responsible for the development of PCDOM PrimaCare, an
integrated Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Clinic Management System for GPs
which can be used as a tool to manage risk factors to achieve health MDGs at
primary care level. PrimaCare is currently being funded by UNDP-APDIP to
develop a generic engine for modules to enhance its features to address health
MDGs particularly Child Health, Women's Health and HIV and Chronic Diseases.
Molly is also the Protem President of the Open Source Health Care Alliance
(OSHCA) http://oshca.org
and Deputy President of the Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control http://mctc.org.my
Molly has extensive experience in public health work especially maternal and
child health as well as medical informatics in primary care practice. She is a
team member of the WHO sponsored initiative on EVIPNet Malaysia, a project to
utilize evidenced-based information for policy decision making. She is also a
member of the Steering Committee on the National Health Account, the Technical
Committee on the National Health Care Financing Scheme and several other
committees related to Family Health. drcheah AT pc.jaring.my
Jackie
Cheeseborough is Head of
Library and Information Services and Team Leader RCN Institute, Royal College
of Nursing. She has recently been elected Vice Chair of PHI, Partnerships in
Health Information, which fosters partnerships between health Libraries in the
UK and health libraries in developing countries for mutual benefit,
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/hosted/phi Jackie.Cheeseborough
AT RCN.ORG.UK
Arlene Cohen is a librarian at the University of Guam
RFK Library with a passion for medical information access and resource sharing.
She is responsible for the Pacific Region Medical Distribution List, a listserv
for people with an interest in health issues in the Pacific Region. acohen AT
uog9.uog.edu
Catherine Coleman is the Editor in Chief of ProCOR, a global health
communication network promoting cardiovascular health in developing
countries and other low-resource settings. Globally, cardiovascular disease and related conditions like diabetes and hypertension cause three times as many deaths as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. In middle- and lower-income countries, 80% of deaths are due to chronic disease. Eighty percent of these diseases are preventable but health workers often lack information about effective, low-cost prevention strategies. ProCOR promotes exchange of knowledge among a diverse constituency that includes health workers, public health professionals, community planners, advocates, policy makers, and information specialists. ProCOR is a program of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts USA. Catherine is also an instructor in health communication and technology at Tufts Medical School in Boston, MA, USA and a visiting international
faculty member in global health at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. ccoleman5 AT partners.org
Ed Cooper is a general pediatrician and clinical
consultant to the Partnership for Child Development, Department of Infectious Disease
Epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London (www.child-development.org).
He has particular interest/expertise in parasitology and HIV medicine, and a
wide interest in development. edcooper AT doctors.org.uk
Marie-Reine Cossi Marie-Reine Cossi is a librarian with the Institut Régional de Santé Publique, Ouidah, Bénin. She is the Bénin focal point for the Africa Index Medicus. mrcossi AT yahoo.fr
Andrew Craig is Electronic Resources Officer of the
Lancashire Teaching Hospital, Royal Preston Hospital, UK. andrew.craig AT
lthtr.nhs.uk
David Curnock retired in 2006 from a consultant
paediatrician post (neonatology and general paadiatrics including special
interests in HIV, epilepsy, cleft lip & palate, and child protection) at
Nottingham University Hospitals (UK) and is now an Emeritus Consultant with
continuing involvement in project work in Africa. dcurnock AT doctors.org.uk
David Curtis is Head of Programme and Capacity
Development at Healthlink Worldwide, a UK-based NGO. Healthlink Worldwide works
with over 50 partners worldwide, mobilising innovative knowledge and
communication processes; empowering people to voice their health needs and have
those voices heard. David is a health communications specialist with a
background in primary health care. He has worked extensively in Africa,
South Asia and South-East Asia. curtis.d AT healthlink.org.uk
Carlos Delgado is a Peruvian pediatrician and
neonatologist. He works at the Instituto Nacional de Salud
Daisy Dharmaraj is a medical doctor specialised in Public
Health, from
Efunbo Dosekun is a paediatrician. She recently moved
back to
Maureen Duggan is a paediatrician, with a special
interest in nutrition, and retired apart from teaching one month yearly a
tropical nutrition Module at the University of Sheffield, UK where she was a
senior lecturer in paediatrics. She worked in South & North
Alison Earley is a consultant paediatrician who works
for Child Health Advocacy International UK. earley AT doctors.org.uk
Sarah El-Hadi works as a paediatrician at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend,
Wales, UK. sarah.elhadi AT bromor-tr.wales.nhs.uk
David Emerson is the director of a 501c3 (non-profit)
called the Galen Foundation, based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The Galen
Foundation's mission is to promote Interactive Health Communication. Its
first project is www.Beating-myeloma.org daviddecemerson AT
mac.com
Dorothy Flatman is Programme Director with Women and
Children First, a UK registered charity working to develop and share best
healthcare practices to improve maternal and newborn health in poor communities.
Dorothy has more than ten years experience in international health development
including Africa, Asia and eastern Europe. She is a qualified paediatric nurse
and nurse tutor, and in 2000 completed a Masters degree in Public Health at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. d.flatman
AT wcf-uk.org
Mário Fresta works at the Centre for Medical Education
(CEDUMED), UAN, Angola (www.fmuan.ao). His interests include medical education,
Health Care Reform, Innovative Health Learning,
ICT in Health Professions Training. mariofresta AT netcabo.co.ao
Alan Fricker is Knowledge & Library Service
Manager, Newham University Hospital NHS Trust, UK. He is currently Chair of
CILIP Health Libraries Group (Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals). alan.fricker AT newhamhealth.nhs.uk
Andrew Gammie is a clinical engineer with experience in
Nepal, India and Africa. He currently works part time as a freelance
consultant and part time as a clinical scientist in the UK's National Health
Service. He has been involved with the UK's IET seminars on Appropriate
Healthcare Technology. www.Fishtail.biz agammie AT
fishtail.biz
Pat Gargan is Project and Business Development Manager
at Bournemouth University, UK. pgargan AT bournemouth.ac.uk
Jean Bosco
Gasherebuka works with
World Health Organization/Rwanda as Health Information and Promotion Officer.
His interests include Health Promotion, Health Community, School Health,
Fighting against tobacco and other non communicable diseases and Health
Information in general. gasherebukab AT rw.afro.who.int
Meenakshi
Gautham has a PhD in
Public Health and Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, and is currently an independent public health consultant based in
Delhi, India. Her special area of
interest is how to better connect, better inform and better support health
systems and the health workforce in rural, poor and low resource settings.
Meenakshi.Gautham AT lshtm.ac.uk
Maryvonne
Grisetti works at the
World Health Organization headquarters, Geneva. She is currently in charge of
free dissemination of WHO priced publications worldwide but especially aimed at
developing countries. grisettim AT who.int
Rathi Guhadasan is a London-based paediatric middle grade
doctor but previously worked for three and a half years with Angkor Hospital
for Children, a paediatric teaching hospital for all cadres of health worker
(www.angkorhospital.org, www.fwab.org) in Cambodia as Medical Education
Coordinator and Senior Paediatric Doctor. She also has a Masters degree in
Public Health in Developing Countries. rathiguha AT hotmail.com
Iurie S Guzgan is a researcher at the Center for Public
Health and
Sanitary Management, Ministry of Health, Chisinau, Moldova.
His interests include quality management in health care, information
technologies in health system, and management of pathology services.
iguzgan AT mam.md
Paul Heinzelmann works with Partners
Telemedicine, a non-profit organisation based in Boston, USA, utilizing
telemedicine to bring sustainable and quality health care to underserved
populations. Paul is head of Partners Telemedicine’s program in Cambodia,
Operation Village Health, which links clinics in remote areas of Cambodia with
physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and
Partners/Dana Farber Cancer Care. Paul is board certified in Family
Medicine, received a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Royal
College of Physicians, London and is an MPH candidate at the Harvard School of
Public Health. He is committed to providing increased care and access to underserved
populations through the use of communications technologies. PHEINZELMANN
AT partners.org
Agnes Hibbert is an independent consultant with a
professional background in nurse education and science. Her professional
interests include research in human resources for health, and she has a
personal interest in improving health and development in central Asia. She is
currently based in Oxford, UK. agnes.hibbert
AT btinternet.com
David Hock is responsible for electronic
dissemination of Family Health International research and publications. Based
in Durham, North Carolina, FHI is a large non-profit organization active in
international public health with a mission to improve lives worldwide through
research, education, and services in family health. dhock AT fhi.org
Margaret
Holmes-Rovner is Professor
of Health Services Research, Center
for Ethics & Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University
College of Human Medicine. She is particularly interested in Shared
Decision-Making and Evidence-based health communication. She is currently
working on developing decision support tools, and approaches to involving
patients in collaboration with health care providers to improve decision-making
about their care. More broadly, she is working on building the field of
investigation and application of research to engagement of people in
their health and health care. http://bioethics.msu.edu mholmes AT msu.edu
Alec Holt is director of the Health Informatics
Program and senior lecturer of the Department of Information Science,
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.hein.otago.ac.nz AHolt AT infoscience.otago.ac.nz
Robert Hughes is a medical student at the University of Bristol, UK. He is also 'Think Global Coordinator' for the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations and coordinates the Medsin-UK Global Health Education Project, both of which aim to promote international health and development learning opportunities amongst healthcare students around the world. www.ifmsa.org hughes.rob AT gmail.com
Irina
Ibraghimova is Coordinator
of Medical Information Resources, American International Health Alliance. She
is a medical librarian, based in
Adesina Iluyemi is a dentist by profession with Masters
degree and postgraduate Royal College of Surgeons, England diploma in Dental
Public Health. He is presently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Healthcare
Modelling and Informatics,
Marie Paule
Kabore is head librarian
of the WHO Africa Regional Office,
Grace Kamau is the Head of Infocentre at the
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI),
Andrew Kanter is a physician with 20 years of
international health and medical informatics experience. He works part-time
with Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. in
Barbara Kirsop is interested in the movement towards free
and open access to all published research papers through the global Open Access
movement. This interest is shared by her colleagues at the Electronic
Publishing Trust for Development, http://www.epublishingtrust.org
EPT AT biostrat.demon.co.uk
Jose Lacal has a BA in Economics and is pursuing a Master's in Public Health. His current area of research is centered around his concepts of Seamless Health and Personalized Health Informatics to deliver customized personal and public health services to the individual using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) (http://www.IEEE2407.org
). Jose leads the Seamless Health Center of
Excellence at Motorola, Inc. based in
Stephen Lacey works at the Publishing Group -
International Health, Wellcome Trust,
Anne Langdji works with Projet de Soins de Sante Primaire, Eglise Evangelique
Lutherienne du Senegal. Her
interests include primary health care work in rural settings. langdji AT
sentoo.sn
Anton W LeMair is a medical doctor and completed medical
school in
innovations in publishing and communication - both on a technical and
organizational level. tlemair AT warwick.net
Charthian
Mambou is Technical
Assistant at the WHO Regional Office for
Edwin M Mapara is a medical doctor and Public Health
Specialist with a speciality in the management of HIV/AIDS in the developing
countries. With over twenty years HIV/AIDS experience in the field, in Zambia,
Botswana, South Africa and now UK, he has been been very passionate about the
use of colour images/medical illustrations to teach, share experiences and
engage audiences in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support initiatives. He is
currently working with Brent & Harrow Community Health Projects (BHCHP),
Mian Imran
Masood is Assistant
Coordinator Pharmaceuticals, Advocacy and Research Unit, The Network for
Consumer Protection,
Dan Mayer is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the
Sara Mbaga is a librarian at
Jessie
McGowan is a senior information scientist at
the
Neema Mgana is founder of an AIDS organization to
serve children affected with HIV/AIDS in
schools in underserved areas in developing countries. She is a member of the
board of directors of Kabissa, a civil society organization working to help
African civil society organization put information and communication
technologies to work for the benefit of the people they serve. She has a
Masters in International Public Health and an undergraduate degree in Health
Informatics. In 2005, she was the youngest of 1000 women from around the world
jointly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. nmgana AT yahoo.com
Lea Mgonja is Information Officer and Researcher at
the National Institute for Medical Research,
Shobha Mocherla is an Audio-Visual Producer with L V
Prasad Eye Institute,
training. www.lvpei.org/videogallery.html
mshoba AT lvpei.org
Fiorenza
Monticelli works for the
Health Systems Trust in
Lulu Muhe works in the Department of Child and
Adolescent Health and
Development of the World Health Organization,
Lady Murrugarra works at the Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru ( www.upch.edu.pe/tropicales). Her main interests are studies of free software, computer science, software medical, telemedicine, health informatics and artificial intelligence. Further information is available at:
http://www.upch.edu.pe/tropicales/qsomos/contenido/LADY1.htm ladymurrugarra AT yahoo.es
Nyokabi Musila is a post-doctoral research fellow at
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a pharmacist by
training, and works in national evidence-based guideline development, with a
view to improve the quality of healthcare. She is keen to shift her focus from
the National Health Service (NHS) in the
Virdiana Mvungi works as Information Manager for the
National Institute for Medical Research,
Shampa Nath is Programme Manager - International, with
Healthlink Worldwide,
Keith Nockels is an Information Librarian at the
César Nureña works as an information manager in IMPACTA Salud
y Educacion,
Ohnmar is a medical doctor and epidemiologist at
the Epidemiology Research Division Department of Medical Research (
Bolajoko
Olusanya is a research
fellow at the
Ayo Onatola is the Librarian at St. Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine,
Florence Oriedi works at the Acacia Care Centre in
Nottingham, UK. oriedi2001 AT yahoo.com
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’ (www.hifa2015.org). 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 AT ghi-net.org
Sadia Dilshad
Parveen is Director of
Quality Improvement, NGO Service Delivery Program, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her
interests include reproductive health and family planning; and health systems.
NSDP is a local USAID-funded population and health program, which is a
consortium of eight US-based country assistance strategies that provide
technical support to 33 Bangladeshi NGOs to deliver maternal, child and
reproductive health and family planning services to their catchment
populations, which are over 20 million. Sadia's parent organization is University
Research Co., LLC, based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. sdparveen AT URC-CHS.COM
Anjana Patel
is a pharmaceutical scientist and a writer based in the UK. She
has an MSc in pharmacology and a PhD in medicinal chemistry and is a
published author of a book on Diabetes Mellitus for pharmacists. Her main
interests are: 1. Provision of good quality and validated information about
health care interventions for front line healthcare professionals. 2.
Systematic assessment of harms of medical interventions. 3. The role of
traditional herbal medicines in an allopathic medical system. Anjana’s
working experience includes working as a clinical editor for BMJ Clinical
Evidence (an evidence based resource of information about health care
interventions) and as an assistant editor for the British National Formulary
(a national resource of drug prescribing information for drugs available in
the UK). She has also worked both as a hospital and community pharmacist in the
UK. anjanan.patel AT virgin.net
Devendra Patel is Director of Medisoft Telemedicine Pvt.
Ltd., India. Medisoft Telemedicine is a research based development company
established with the objective of improving health care delivery by setting the
highest standards in the field of public health with the help of telemedicine
and bio-technology. For more
information do visit http://www.medisofttelemedicine.com. Email: deven AT medisofttelemedicine.com
Bryan Pearson is the publisher of MERA (Medical
Education Resource Africa)/Africa Health, which is a largely paper-based CME
resource for senior health professionals in Africa. He is based near Cambridge,
UK. bryan AT fsg.co.uk
Carol Priestley is Head, Special Projects, with the
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP),
a registered charity based in Oxford, UK. She has an interest and commitment to
access to relevant and timely health information for all. http://www.inasp.info/
cpriestley AT inasp.info
Rebecca
Priestley is Programme
Officer of Health and Special Projects, at the International Network for the
Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, UK. rpriestley AT inasp.info
Connie Pullan is a community paediatrician. She retired from her paediatric post in
the UK in 1997 has been working abroad on and off since then. She
returned in June 2006 from spending a year as a paediatrician in Maua Methodist
Hospital in Kenya. connie.pullan AT btinternet.com
Syed Ziaur
Rahman is a medical doctor
specialising in Pharmacology. In addition to serving Jawaharlal Nehru Medical
College, he is also associated with the AIDS Cell of the Ibn Sina Academy,
Aligarh, India. He is an Honorary Consultant in AIDS/HIV. ibnsinaacademy AT
gmail.com
Juan Ramos is the Program Coordinator of ProCOR (www.procor.org), a program of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. ProCOR is a global health communication network promoting cardiovascular health and the prevention of related conditions such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension through cost-effective practices in clinical, community and policy settings. ProCOR uses e-mail and the web to provide timely and unbiased health information that is relevant in developing countries and other low-resource settings. jramos3 AT partners.org
Natalia Rekhter is a Lecturer at the School of Public and
Environmental Affairs, Program of Health Care Management and Administration,
Indiana University, USA. Originally she is from Russia; she did her Masters in
Health Service Administration at the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. at the
World Distributed Information University (www.WIDU.us). Her research interests
include, but are not limited to, healthcare management education in Russia,
HIV/AIDS and behavioral change. She has two collaborative projects in rural
Russia. nrekhter AT yahoo.com
Ward Rinehart is Associate Director of the Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he serves as editor for the INFO Project. The INFO Project publishes Population Reports and other periodicals, as well as client-provider communication tools and a provider's handbook, on family planning and related reproductive health (FP/RH). INFO also produces the new OneSource online database. In addition, the USAID-funded project seeks to help FP/RH organizations adapt and apply knowledge management approaches in low-resource settings. www.infoforhealth.org wrinehar AT jhuccp.org
Harold Robles is Founder and President of the Medical
Knowledge Institute, based in Oostvoorne, Netherlands. The Medical Knowledge
Institute (MKI) is a non-profit healthcare education and healthcare information
organization dedicated to the premise that healthcare is truly a human right,
both in industrialized or developing and transitioning countries. The programs
of MKI are designed to improve the quality of and to promote humanitarian
values in healthcare through education and public health programs. They include
an HIV and AIDS Training Program in cooperation with the International
Confederation of Midwives (ICM), VU Medical Center in Amsterdam and the Dutch
Red Cross. This training program is aimed at informing and educating midwives
and healthcare workers on how to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS from
mother to child. MKI is also very active in the areas of oncology and Human
Resources for Health.
Harold Robles is founder and
President Emeritus of the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities in the
United States. http://www.infomki.org/ hrobles
AT infomki.org
Toumzghi Sengal is a program manager in health and
nutrition with Vision Eritrea, Asmara, Eritrea. Vision Eritrea is a national
NGO that strengthens community based health care delivery system with the
training of community health workers in C-IMCI (Community Integrated Management
of Childhood Illness). Toumzghi trained in Northeastern University Boston and
had been practising in USA. sengal AT gemel.com.er
Sasha Shepperd is a Research Scientist in Evidence
Synthesis, University of Oxford, Department of Public Health, Oxford, UK. Her
research areas of interest are systematic reviews of complex interventions with
a focus on external validity and the development of the DISCERN guidelines
which provide a mechanism for involving patients in decisions about their
health, make explicit information gaps and facilitate the use of available
resources. The DISCERN guidelines were developed using qualitative methods to
identify the views of a wide range of users of information (including lay
users) and quantitative methods to test the reliability of the quality
criteria, and are freely available from www.discern.org.ukand
www.discern-genetics.org
Sasha.Shepperd AT dphpc.ox.ac.uk
Tungamirirai
Simbini is a medical
doctor by training. Currently he is studying for a masters in biomedical
informatics. He is based in Zimbabwe. His main interest is in information
retrieval and accessibility vs ICT skills for health professionals in
developing countries. tsimbini AT medsch.uz.ac.zw
Marcel
Singirankabo is a
professional librarian since 1991. At present, he is responsible for the WHO
Documentation Centre in Kigali, Rwanda. His interests include library sciences,
ICT infrastructure, health information delivery and electronic resources.
singirankabom AT rw.afro.who.int
Jeffrey Soar is Associate Professor and Director of the
Collaboration
for Ageing and
Aged-care Informatics Research (CAAIR) at the University
of Southern
Queensland, Australia. He is also the Secretary, Aged Care
Informatics
Australia, part of the Health Informatics Society of
Australia. Jeffrey
researches assistive technologies for active, productive ageing and for access
to care in home and community settings.
Douglas
Soderdahl is a
free-lancing volunteer medical educator in urology, general surgery, and
gynaecology, with experience in over 60 countries. He is currently based in
Antananarivo, Madagascar. He is Founder & President of Global Medical
Education, Inc, a nonprofit organisation in Georgia, USA. Douglas was formerly
Professor of Urology and Public Health at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
dsoderdahl AT yahoo.com
Emily Spry is a recently qualified doctor and
Supervising Council Member of the International Federation of Medical Students'
Associations, which links medical students in more than 90 countries and aims,
among other things, to educate future doctors on global health issues. Emily is
currently working as a junior doctor in Brighton, but maintains a keen interest
in global health. emilyspry AT gmail.com
Vijay Srinivas is a Delhi (India)-based journalist and
communication professional with more than 15 years' work experience. Currently,
he is working as Editor (Online and New Media Initiatives) of Businessworld
magazine, India's leading business weekly. Earlier, he has worked as
correspondent and writer for leading Indian magazines such as India Today and
Businesssworld, scripted and produced popular television news and features
programmes (INDIA THIS WEEK), planned and implemented
communication strategies for an international environmental NGO (the
World Wide Fund for Nature--India), and developed and managed content for
a careers and jobs site. His interests
include environment, health, music and cinema. vijaysrinivas_
AT hotmail.com
Divya
Srivastava is assistant
director general of the Division of Publication and Information, Indian Council
of Medical Research, Delhi, India. drdivya.srivastava AT gmail.com
Rachel Stancliffe has a background in demography and public health. She
is a co-director of the Global Healthcare Information Network
(www.ghi-net.org). Rachel has extensive
experience in development work
in many countries, including Georgia, Kazakhstan, India and Latin
America. She works at Update Software Ltd, a publishing and software
company based in Oxford, UK, which specialises in assembling, preparing
and disseminating information needed to make informed health care
decisions. rstancliffe AT update.co.uk
Joanne Stemp is a health care librarian at the
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK. She is particularly interested in
information skills and evidence-based practice. joanne.stemp AT ghnt.nhs.uk
Mark Storey has worked on programs designed to improve access to health information for over 14 years. Based in Washington DC, USA, he has managed projects at over 160 health organizations in Eurasia and Africa aimed at improving health professionals' capacity to access information. Over the years, he has organized several dozen training seminars designed to enhance health professionals' information retrieval and critical appraisal skills. He is also the creator of the EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network (www.eurasiahealth.org), a Web-based clearinghouse for Russian-language health information and related resources. mstorey AT igc.org
Pritpal
S Tamber is
the Managing Director of Faculty of 1000 Medicine, an online resource that
pools and organises the opinions of experienced researchers and clinicians
worldwide. He was previously the Editorial Director for Medicine at BioMed
Central, a publisher of open access journals, and an editor at the BMJ.
Pritpal.S.Tamber AT f1000medicine.com
Joanne
Thomas has a
special interest in rehabilitation and specifically access / appropriateness of
physiotherapy services in developing countries. She qualified as a
physiotherapist in 1990 from Sydney University. Over the last 3 years she has
travelled to East and West Africa. She is presently undertaking a Masters in
International Public Health (University of Sydney) and seeking an appropriate
existing project in a developing country with which she can contribute research
of a practical purpose. thomasj65 AT hotmail.com
David Tuck is a trustee of Partnerships in Health
Information. Phi is
a UK-based charity contributing to improved health care in countries with
few material resources. By building partnerships between health libraries,
Phi supports access to reliable health information. dandtuck AT btinternet.com
Hendra van Zyl is divisional manager of the Web and Media Technologies Division of the Medical Research Council in Tygerberg, South Africa. hdev AT mrc.ac.za
Doug Vanisky is a freelance writer and California
Licensed Acupuncturist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before returning
to school to study Traditional Chinese Medicine, he served as the Proposal
Manager for Pharmaceutical Care Network, a major health care organization
formerly owned by the California Pharmacists Association. Mr. Vanisky graduated
from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine's four-year Master's
degree program, where he sat on the UCSF/ACTCM Steering Committee. In this
capacity, he worked with MDs and Med students at the University of California
at San Francisco to help build the first dually accredited medical exchange
program and lecture series of its type, with the aim of facilitating a dialogue
between allopathic and TCM healing modalities. He later interned at California
Pacific Medical Center's Stroke Department, treating stroke patients and those
suffering from neurological trauma. He now maintains a private practice in Mill
Valley, California. In addition, he has done extensive writing for web
environments, most notably serving as the primary new content writer for
Seagate Technology, Forbes Magazine's 2006 Company of the Year. His forthcoming
novel, The Realm, is slated for a 2007 release. doug.vanisky AT gmail.com
Lalji
K Verma is a
retired Air Marshal of the Indian Air Force, having retired from the position
of Director General of Medical Services. His expertise is in the field of
healthcare waste management, and solid waste management. He is current
President of Indian Society of Hospital Waste Management (ISHWM), and President
of VIKALP - Seeking Waste Solutions through Alternatives. vermalk AT bol.net.in
or laljeeverma AT vsnl.net
Hitesh Vyas is an Ophthalmologist at the Aga Khan
Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His interests include teaching medical
students, community work, and telemedicine in ophthalmology. hitesh.vyas AT
akhst.org
Bill Ward has been involved in maternal and child
health in developing countries for the last 4 decades (Middle East, West
Africa, and the Caribbean primarily). He is a faculty member in the Department
of Health Policy and Measurement at the University of South Florida College of
Public Health and he teaches distance courses in international health
management. He also teaches a graduate course In global primary health care
strategies, and directed a primary health care and community development
program on the Palestinian West Bank that provided 125,000 visits annually to
50 villages. He is a doctorally trained health educator with a focus on
community health, primary health care, and health care planning and evaluation.
http://hsc.usf.edu/publichealth/hpm/wward/index.html wward
AT hsc.usf.edu
Chris Watts is a researcher at the University of Warwick with an interest in
research on communications and networking. He has also worked as an information
consultant for a range of health-based organisations. He has a broad
variety of research and teaching experience, particularly in the fields of
information management and health informatics. C.Watts AT ljmu.ac.uk
Anke Weisheit is an Agricultural Economist by training.
She holds a Masters degree in Agricultural Science from University of Bonn,
Germany and is currently undertaking her PhD research in Development Studies at
Mbarara University in Uganda. She has attended short courses relevant to good
governance and peace studies (Civilian Peacekeeping & Peace-building
(ACCORD, South Africa), Principles of Decentralisation (UMI, Uganda), Conflict
Analysis, (United States Institute of Peace, USA), and Youths & the Challenge
of Africa's Development,(International Centre for Conflict & Human Rights
Analysis, Ghana) to broaden her knowledge in her field of interest. Her fields
of specialisation are agricultural commerce, agroforestry and rural enterprise
establishment and of recent conflict prevention and peace building. Anke worked
several years in Germany in the field of West African Refugee Counselling and
Guidance and the training of camp staff at German refugee camps in aspects of
Intercultural understanding and conflict resolution. Since 2002, Anke has been
working in Uganda with ICRAF on medicinal tree domestication and development of
training modules for herbalists in sustainable management of natural resources
and improvement of patient care and product development. From February 2005 has
been working as a research associate in the Faculty of Development Studies of
Mbarara University and has embarked on a PhD study in the field of Traditional
Medicine trying to understand the accessibility to traditional health care for
people in refugee settlements in South Western Uganda. Ms Weisheit is exploring
alternative coping mechanism for people living in conflict situation using
indigenous knowledge. ankeweisheit AT web.de
Tana Wuliji is a PhD student at the School of
Pharmacy, University of London and a Project Coordinator for the International
Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). Her main area of work relates to human
resources for health, pharmacy education, and patient safety. twuliji AT
varsity.co.nz
John Zeal is
a Patient Temperature Specialist with Camborne Consultants, UK. His specialist
subject is the accurate measurement of body temperature from 'birth to death'.
With Professor David Morley, founder of TALC, he has designed, sourced and
introduced the ThermoSpot - a non-invasive hypothermia indicator for neonates,
infants and children. temperaturedoc
AT aol.com
Chris Zielinski spent over 20 years in publishing and
language services
in the UN system (mainly WHO and FAO), working in Africa, Asia and
Europe. Among his earlier activities in health information are ExtraMED
(CD-ROMs containing scanned images of over 300 biomedical journals
published in the developing world), and the Health Information for
Development Project (a Gates-Foundation funded capacity building and
networking project). Chris is currently at WHO/Geneva, working in the
Knowledge Management and Sharing department on country support. He is
currently leading a group preparing a global survey of the knowledge enterprise
in health. zielinskic AT who.int