Multilingualism

The HIFA Project on Multilingualism promotes:

1. communication, discussion and debate on the HIFA forums, on issues relating to language and healthcare information and learning needs among citizens, health workers, publishers, researchers and policymakers

2. understanding of language and information needs and how to address these issues, and build the relevant parts of the HIFA Voices database        

3. advocacy to improve the availability and use of health information for all end-users in a language that they can understand.  

In addition, the Project promotes and supports alignment (eg scope, moderation approach, branding), development and cross-fertilisation across the HIFA forums (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic…) to maximise their collective impact towards the HIFA vision and goals. The Project also assesses tha feasibility and need for HIFA forums in other languages (eg Chinese, Russian…).