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HIFA engages with the Global Evidence Commission to Address Societal ChallengesDate: Wednesday, October 9, 2024HIFA (Healthcare Information For All) has become an official organisational partner of the Global Evidence Commission to Address Societal Challenges. |
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HIFA Project enables Cochrane paper on healthcare workers' informal uses of mobile phonesDate: Monday, September 9, 2024Note: HIFA facilitates in-depth discussions on priority global health topics. We are currently supporting mHEALTH-INNOVATE, a major research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. HIFA's role is to leverage the HIFA community (20,000 members in 180 countries) to explore the issues. Read more about how you can utilise HIFA to help achieve your objectives. We look forward to your suggestions for future projects. HIFA has enabled the development of a new qualitative evidence synthesis, published by Cochrane (27 August 2024): |
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The Lancet Global Health supports the championing role of WHO as recommended in the HIFA report: Towards universal access to reliable healthcare informationDate: Wednesday, August 28, 2024'We support the championing role of WHO as recommended in the Health Information For All report and stand ready to play our part in strategy development.' Lancet Global Health 2024 Below are the citation and extracts of a lead editorial from The Lancet Global Health, and a comment from the HIFA Coordinator. |
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Press release: Global health advocates call on the World Health Organization to explicitly champion the goal of universal access to reliable healthcare informationDate: Wednesday, July 3, 2024Download the report and infographic Reliable healthcare information saves lives |
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HIFA welcomes Enock Musungwini as HIFA Global Coordinator for Supporting OrganisationsDate: Wednesday, March 6, 2024HIFA is delighted to welcome Enock Musungwini as HIFA Global Coordinator for Supporting Organisations. Enock Musungwini is a distinguished public health professional, health management consultant, and development practitioner currently serving as a Programme Manager (Consultant) for an NGO called Pangaea Zimbabwe under the Wild4Life Health program. Enock joined HIFA in 2018 and is a longstanding HIFA Country Representative for Zimbabwe. He won the global CR of the Year award in 2022. For further info see his profile on the HIFA website |
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HIFA announces a deep-dive discussion on Alcohol Use Disorders, starts 5 February 2024Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024See below for announcement in Spanish and Portuguese. See our 30-second YouTube video here. The discussion starts officially on 5 February 2024 and will last 6 weeks. Join HIFA today in readiness: www.hifa.org/joinhifa: |
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HIFA seeks a Global Supporting Organisation CoordinatorDate: Monday, January 1, 2024Are you: ready to connect with more than 400 health and development organisations worldwide, including the World Health Organization? interested to maximise your global networking and collaboration opportunities? keen to increase your professional visibility across the global health community? The position of Global Supporting Organisation Coordinator is currently available, starting February 2024. About HIFA Supporting Organisations (SOs) |
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HIFA receives financial support from One VillageDate: Monday, December 11, 2023HIFA is delighted to receive a donation of £2000 from One Village. One Village is a retailer and wholesaler of craft made functional articles for the home. It works directly with community organizations in some of the most economically stretched parts of the world, with the purpose of building up the social wellbeing of communities. One Village achieves this through encouraging creative cooperatives and by pursuing an alternative approach to marketing, rooted in principles of solidarity towards a more equitable and just world order. |
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Oxford PharmaGenesis sponsors global HIFA-WHO consultation to promote reliable healthcare informationDate: Thursday, November 23, 2023Oxford PharmaGenesis sponsors global HIFA-WHO consultation to promote reliable healthcare information The text below is from a news item on the website of Oxford Pharmagenesis. Read in full here: https://www.pharmagenesis.com/news-and-events/hifa-who-consultation-sponsorship -- |
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Today! The Lancet @200 years & HIFA: Spotlight webinar on medical research as a catalyst for policy and societal change, Nov 9 at 13:30 GMTDate: Thursday, November 9, 2023Please join us for a Lancet-HIFA webinar to celebrate the 200th anniversary of The Lancet. Read online: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/research-for-health -- Prioritising evidence to guide and inform decision making For 200 years, The Lancet has published scientific research that has driven progress and generated knowledge. Now, in a growing phase of anti-science, researchers play a more crucial role than ever in science communication. We call for... |