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HIFA Project enables Cochrane paper on healthcare workers' informal uses of mobile phones

9 September, 2024

Note: 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): 

The Lancet Global Health supports the championing role of WHO as recommended in the HIFA report: Towards universal access to reliable healthcare information

28 August, 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.

Iraqi Association for Medical Research and Studies IAMRS

The first scientific association in the province of Basra / IRAQ that was established in 2017 by Ministerial Order No. 5747/5 in 2017/7/12 AD issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and is under the umbrella of the Supreme Council of Scientific Societies in Iraq and has a seat in the Council of Medical Education in the Ministry of Health Iraq. We support medical scientific research and medical studies in the various specialties of medicine and public health.

Location

Basra
Iraq
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IQ

Press release: Global health advocates call on the World Health Organization to explicitly champion the goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information

3 July, 2024

Reliable healthcare information saves lives

Doctors on Mission International

Doctors on Mission International is a volunteer based non-for-profit organization uniting like-minded Christian medical teams with the aim of serving humanity with freely accessible, acceptable and reliable medical and surgical; needs to reduce the burden on medical care on the community while serving God and bringing healing to communities. Founded in 2023, Doctors on Mission International unites like-minded Christian medical teams to provide medical care to low limited setting communities while serving God and bringing healing to communities.

Location

Mbarara City
Uganda
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UG

Peoples-Praxis

Peoples-Praxis supports graduates of master’s degrees in Public Health and related fields such as health management, monitoring and evaluation or health promotion, who work in low- to middle-income countries, to empower them to extend and apply their skills and knowledge towards improving the health of their populations, through a practice based experiential programme.

Location

Dartford
United Kingdom
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GB

María de los Angeles

Elsevier Foundation

'The Elsevier Foundation contributes over $1 million a year to non-profit organizations and it’s funded by Elsevier, a global information analytics company specializing in science and health...' [https://elsevierfoundation.org/about-us/]

Location

Amsterdam
Netherlands
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NL

Alejandro Moctezuma

Nick

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