Contact information

Global Healthcare Information Network
16 Woodfield Drive
Charlbury, Oxford OX7 3SE, UK

Email:
Tel: +44 (0)1608 811338

Co-directors:

Fred Bukachi:
Neil Pakenham-Walsh:
Rachel Stancliffe:

Fred 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 organisations 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. He co-moderates HIF-net (Health Information Forum) and HR4D-net (Health Research for Development) email groups.

Neil Pakenham-Walsh has a special interest in the availability and use of relevant, reliable healthcare information in developing countries. 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, Medicine Digest, and the CD-ROM series Topics in International Health (Wellcome Trust). 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 South India to assess local priorities in access and use of health information. He co-moderates HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 email groups.

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.