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Umbrella 2007 Emma Farrow and Jean Newman

Information literacy and international collaboration work with Partnerships in Health Information (Phi). Umbrella 2007 Emma Farrow and Jean Newman. Outline. Information literacy and international context Role of Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) Kenya partnership in close-up.

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Umbrella 2007 Emma Farrow and Jean Newman

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  1. Information literacy and international collaboration work with Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) Umbrella 2007 Emma Farrow and Jean Newman

  2. Outline • Information literacy and international context • Role of Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) • Kenya partnership in close-up

  3. Information Literacy and the international context “ Knowledge is the enemy of disease… Applying what we know already will have a bigger impact on health and disease than any drug or technology likely to be introduced in the next decade. ” Pang T et al, Lancet 2006 367:284-6

  4. International developments • Millennium Development Goals • HINARI and the digital divide • Global Health Partnerships (Crisp Report) • HIFA2015 Campaign

  5. Millennium Development Goals By 2015: Goal 4 - Reduce child mortality Goal 5 - Improve maternal health Goal 6 - Combat HIV/Aids, malaria, TB + other diseases

  6. Bridging the digital divide • HINARI: Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative Full-text of 3,700 + journal titles www.who.int/hinari • AJOL: African Journals OnlineAbstracts from 271 African journalswww.ajol.info/

  7. HIFA2015 Health Information for All: By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider “ We live in the ‘information age’ but the reality is that most healthcare providers continue to lack the information they need to deliver basic health care. ” HIFA2015 foundation document

  8. Global Health Partnerships (Crisp Report) Published February 2007 www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/ghp.pdf

  9. Key Recommendations The developing country owns the solution • Strategic and comprehensive approach • Different levels of partnership UK as global employer • Overseas training / work - NHS & internat. staff • ‘One-Stop-Shop’ and ‘HealthBay’ Systematic spreading of good practice • Role of ICT and other new technology • Knowledge, evidence and best practice

  10. Background to Phi • Began in 1992 as Satellife - satellite technology to provide articles to countries in Africa • Renamed Partnerships in Health Information [Phi] www.omni.ac.uk/hosted/phi Registered charity no.1031674

  11. Key objectives of Phi • Training to identify reliable information • Outreach services • Documentation / dissemination of indigenous research

  12. Role of Phi • Finding suitable partners and project funding • Making a preliminary needs assessment • Facilitating, monitoring and advising the partnership • Evaluating the results/outcomes

  13. Building library partnerships for better health care across the globe

  14. Moldavian Librarians visit

  15. Sierra Leone partnership There is a real deepening of human experience when working closely with colleagues, who have so little but do so much and it is chastening to realise how privileged we are. Alison Weightman Head of Library Service Development& Support Unit for Research Evidence, Sir Herbert Duthie Library, Cardiff University Technology has revolutionised the transfer of health information and knowledge, but as a result librarians need new or enhanced skills and training programmes. Nance M’jamtu-Sie Medical Librarian, College of Medicine and Allied Sciences, University of Sierra Leone

  16. Uganda partnership I have been able to look at my own service afresh; we are trying to achieve the same things but in a different context. Rachel Cooke Head of Library Services & Knowledge Management Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, UK Workshop participant Member of staff from the Albert Cook Medical School Library, Makerere University, Uganda This training is timely and we are getting lifetime skills that will improve the quality of our work.

  17. Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) The Kenya Partnership

  18. Outline • The partners • Background on Kenya • Needs assessment • Plans for developing the partnership

  19. Who are the partners? SW SHA – South West Strategic Health Authority Phi – Partnerships in Health Information

  20. Background on Kenya WHO Statistics 2007

  21. Needs Assessment • Health Information Seminar in Nairobi, March 2006

  22. What did the visits show us? • A strong desire to share problems and form networks, nationally and internationally • Motivation to make use of technological developments in health knowledge management • The will to breach ‘the divide within the divide’

  23. AHILA Congress Biennial Congress of the African Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa, Mombasa, October 2006 “Millennium Development Goals and health information provision in Africa”

  24. ‘ The right information in the right format at the right time’ “ Most health care takes place in rural areas at primary and district level. Lives are lost because so many people at this level do not have access to an informed health care provider.”(Neil Pakenham-Walsh. Phi trustee and founder HIFA2015 campaign)

  25. “ The divide within the divide” • Few libraries and poorly resourced • Variety of spoken languages • Lack of locally relevant material • Poor connectivity

  26. Reaching rural areas • Print Blue Trunk Libraries • Radio Vernacular languages • Oral tradition ‘Barazas’ (village meetings) • CD Roms Repackaged learning programmes • Electronic Mobile phone technology Internet

  27. Library in a medical training college for nurses and allied health professionals

  28. The next stage • The Nuffield proposal • Training via in-country workshops • Exchange of expertise through visits

  29. Ultimate aims • To help create a sustainable health information network in Kenya in which librarians have a key role • To learn ourselves from sharing problems and solutions and building international relationships

  30. “Creating true global health partnerships will both help to improve health and, by bringing people together, contribute towards improved relationships across the world and stand the UK in good stead in a changing and risky world.” Global Health Partnerships

  31. Please consider becoming a Friend of Phi Thank you! For further information please contact: Jean.Newman@gosw.gsi.gov.uk or Emma.Farrow@uwe.ac.uk

  32. References • African Journals Online www.ajol.info • Global Health Partnerships (Crisp Report)www.dh.gov.uk • HIFA2015 www.hifa2015.org • HINARI www.who.int/hinari • Newsnight broadcast: Mobile phones in Kenyahttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6241603.stm • WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information System) www.who.int/whosis/en/ "Maps courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps, used with permission"

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