HIFA2015 Steering Group
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
Tom Barker is Acting Manager of the IDS Health & Development Information Team, at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK. The HDI team provides high-quality, accessible information to support informed decision-making by policymakers and practitioners working in health and development. Activities include managing the knowledge and information services of the DFID Health Resource Centre, producing id21 Health and the Health, Health Systems, and HIV and AIDS Resource Guides on Eldis, and collaborating with other organisations on information and communications activities. T.Barker AT ids.ac.uk
Kate Brincklow is Manager of the IDS Health & Development Information Team, at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK. The HDI team provides high-quality, accessible information to support informed decision-making by policymakers and practitioners working in health and development. Activities include managing the knowledge and information services of the DFID Health Resource Centre, producing id21 Health and the Health, Health Systems, and HIV and AIDS Resource Guides on Eldis, and collaborating with other organisations on information and communications activities. K.Brincklow AT ids.ac.uk
Frederick 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
Martin Carroll is Deputy Head of the International Department, British Medical Association, London, UK. The BMA International Department runs a scheme called BMA/BMJ Information Fund, which provides educational materials for health organisations in low-income countries. MCarroll AT bma.org.uk
David Chandler is General Manager of TALC. He has worked with and for
other health charities including the National Eczema Society, Psoriatic
Arthropathy Alliance, Skin Care Campaign, and the British League Against
Rheumatism on patient information development. This work has included
public awareness campaigns and government lobbying, particularly relating
to rationing of medical care within the NHS. davidchandler AT
btconnect.com
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. He has particular interest/expertise in parasitology and HIV medicine, and a wide interest in development. edcooper AT doctors.org.uk
Shane Godbolt is Director 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. shane.godbolt AT
ncgst.nhs.uk
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. hughes.rob AT gmail.com
Sue Jacob is Student Services Advisor for the Learning, Research and Practice Development ( LRPD) department, Royal College of Midwives UK. Sue worked as a midwifery lecturer prior to joining the Royal College of Midwives in 1995. She is a confident nurse and a midwife with extensive experience in all aspects of midwifery education and practice at policy and planning services level. Key aspects of her teaching role include developing, delivering and evaluating pre registration and post qualification education programmes. Her international work includes organising visits for overseas visitors to the Royal College of Midwives. She was a cofacilitator of training the teachers Indonesia Safe Motherhood project. Sue is a pro active member of the Royal Medical Colleges International Forum. Sue undertook research on women and work for her masters programme. Her dissertation explored the hypothesis midwives work is socially constructed as womens work. This has given her passion to enhance the role of midwives throughout the world and she seeks to strengthen their role at every opportunity. Sue.Jacob AT rcm.org.uk
Gemma Owens is president of Medsin-UK, a network of healthcare students, with branches at medical schools across the UK. Medsin-UK's activities aim to educate about and act upon health inequalities in our local and global communities. Medsin is the UK member of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations. gemmaowens AT gmail.com
Neil Pakenham-Walsh (Coordinator, HIFA2015) works with the Global Healthcare Information Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to a future where everyone has access to safe, effective healthcare. 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, the review journal 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 Tamil Nadu, India to assess local priorities in access and use of health information. neil.pakenham-walsh AT ghi-net.org
Jonathan Parker is an independent publishing consultant with special
expertise in marketing, including considerable experience in developing
countries. He established and developed the Elsevier international student
edition programme, and has an increasing interest in health information
issues in developing countries. jrp29 AT tiscali.co.uk
Julie Reza is a freelance writer/consultant specialising in global healthcare, international health and development, and biomedical science and health. She was previously medical writer and project manager at the Wellcome Trust, London, UK, where she worked on a variety of international health topics including African trypanosomiasis and trachoma. Prior to that she worked as a researcher in immunology and in neuroscience. She also has several years experience of teaching immunology at postgraduate level. naimareza AT hotmail.com
Abi Smith is immediate past president of Medsin-UK, a network of healthcare students, with
branches at medical schools across the UK. Medsin's activities aim to
educate about and act upon health inequalities in the UK and worldwide.
president AT medsin.org
Rachel Stancliffe has a background in demography and public health and experience in medical publishing and the use of evidence. She is a co-Director of the Global Healthcare Information Network. She is the Director of The Campaign for Greener Healthcare. Rachel has extensive experience in many countries, including Georgia, Kazakhstan, India and Latin America. rachel.stancliffe AT ghi-net.org
HIFA2015 Advisory Panel
Clare Chandler is an anthropologist and an epidemiologist and interested in using different methods to understand health worker behaviour. Why do health workers do what they do? She is currently working on malaria and other paediatric illnesses, and context of health care, medical culture and the motivation of clinicians with the London School of Tropical Medicine and the Joint Malaria Programme, Tanzania. Clare.Chandler AT lshtm.ac.uk
Jackie Cheeseborough is Head of Library and Information Services and Team Leader RCN Institute, Royal College of Nursing. Jackie.Cheeseborough AT rcn.org.uk
Patricia A Cholewka is Assistant Professor at the Department of Nursing, New York City College of Technology, City University, New York. She holds a Doctorate in International Education Development from Columbia University, a Master of Public Administration and Policy and a Master of Arts in Informatics from New York University, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Castleton State College. Her doctorate focuses on identifying transcultural issues affecting the sustainability of performance improvement and economic management of healthcare systems of post-soviet, transitional economies. She has resided in the Middle East and Central/Eastern Europe while teaching, consulting, conducting healthcare research, and/or presenting at international healthcare conferences. Her articles on healthcareorganization change strategies, nursing informatics (IT), transcultural considerations in healthcare management education, and the effects of government legislation on healthcare cost and quality have been published in various healthcare journals and policy manuals. She has been awarded a 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar lecture/research award to Lithuania to study the application of IT to nursing education and clinical practice. She is co-author of a book on health capital and sustainable socioeconomic development to be published in February 2008 by Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Publishing Group. pacholewka AT verizon.net
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
John Eyers is a retired librarian (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) with an interest in health information in the developing world. He has run information workshops in Africa and India over the last few years and is currently developing a CD-ROM of teaching materials for medical schools in Africa. johneyers AT hotmail.com
Erica Frank is Founder and Executive Director of Health Sciences Online. HSO is a portal (www.hso.info) where health professionals in training and practice access free, comprehensive, high quality, current courses, references, and other learning resources across all of medicine, public health, pharmacy, and dentistry. Erica is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and specializes in preventive medicine. Her research established the strong and consistent influence of clinicians health habits on their patients. She was Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Preventive Medicine (1994-1999), and is the 2008 President of Physicians for Social Responsibility. erica.frank AT ubc.ca
Eric Friedman is chair of the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI), which is dedicated to one of the Global Health Workforce Alliance's core functions, namely to keep human resources for health at the top of the agenda at the country, regional and international level. The purpose of the HWAI is to make the case for the policies and sustained investments necessary to develop and empower a health workforce capable of delivering on health goals, using evidence gathered by GHWA and GHWA partners. Eric Friedman is Senior Global Health Policy Advisor at Physicians for Human Rights, and is based in Washington, DC, USA. EFriedman AT phrusa.org
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
Yunkap Kwankam is Coordinator of eHealth at the World Health Organization, Geneva. He was formerly Professor and Director at the Center for Health Technology, University of Yaounde, Cameroun. kwankamy AT who.int
Mona Nasser is co-ordinator of the Cochrane Developing Countries Network. The CDCN is a network of the Cochrane Collaboration registered in 2006 with the aim of addressing some of the deficits in the contribution and participation from developing countries. Mona is a researcher/lecturer in Systematic Reviews, Educational Development Office, Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. monanasser1 AT googlemail.com
Caroline Nyamai Kisia is Exexutive Director of Action Africa Help Inetrnational, based in Nairobi, Kenya. AAH-I implements community health and development programmes in South Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, Zambia and Kenya, to strengthen the communitys participation, contribution and sense of ownership; to develop a partnership based on equity, transparency and accountability among programme stakeholders; and to mobilise appropriate and adequate resources, locally and externally, to support local programmes, enabling more communities to meet their basic needs and improve their quality of life. Caroline previously worked with AfriAfya, African Network for Health Knowledge Management and Communication. ckisia AT actionafricahelp.org
Ayo Onatola is a Librarian at St. Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine, Luton, England. He holds BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, PGDE, MLS [Ibadan]. He is the former Librarian, Medical Schools/ Teaching Hospitals of Ogun State (now Olabisi Onabanjo) University, Sagamu (1993-99) and Lagos State University, Ikeja (1999-2004), Nigeria. Author of the book "Basics of Librarianship - theory & practice: a guide for beginners", published 2004. His professional interests are in ensuring access to updated Biomedical and Clinical Information in support of excellent medical education, cutting edge research and delivery of effective patient care.He is professionally affiliated to Association for Health Information & Libraries in Africa (AHILA), Nigerian Library Association (NLA); Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP), UK; and Biohealthmatics Africa Network (BHAN). He currently serves on the Advisory Panel of HIFA2015 Campaign. ayoonatola AT yahoo.com
Tikki Pang is Coordinator of Research Policy and Cooperation at the World Health Organization, Geneva. pangt AT who.int
John Sandars is a Senior Lecturer in Community Based Education, Medical Education Unit, University of Leeds, UK. He is a medical General Practitioner by background but now has more academic medical education interests in the use of new technologies (blogs/wikis/podcasts) in medical education and also online communities. He is adviser to CHAIN (Contact, Help, Advice and Information Networks) and saferhealthcare and has also been working with BMJ learning and BMJ journals to look at developing the use of new technologies. J.E.Sandars AT leeds.ac.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, a Web-based clearinghouse for Russian-language health information and related resources. mstorey AT igc.org
Peter Tugwell is Professor of Medicine, and Epidemiology & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is a practising rheumatologist at the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada. He is Director for the Centre for Global Health under the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, with research interests in socioeconomic inequalities and inequities in health in Canada and developing countries. He currently serves as Secretary General to INCLEN's North American group (CanUSAClen). His research interests include rheumatology, developing and evaluating strategies for assessing quality of life and utilities, the evaluation and development of educational strategies in the teaching of medicine, research into the disadvantaged, global health and health equity, knowledge translation, decision support and consumer participation in research and health care. ptugwell AT rogers.blackberry.net
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
