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Global Review of Access to Health Information in Developing Countries
Expert Advisory Panel
The Global Review thanks the following for providing expert advice and guidance during the Review:
Frederick Bukachi is a Kenyan physician and cardiologist with a strong interest in health informatics. He is currently a [1] Research Fellow in Cardiology at the Norrlands University Hospital, Umea, Sweden;[2] a board member of Healthnet Kenya - a successful HealthNet model in Africa, and [3] a founder and board member of International Partnership for Health (IPH) a not-for-profit based in Chicago, USA. Dr. Bukachi previously worked as SatelLife's regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa coordinating HealthNet in that region. He has also served as a consultant, board member and advisor to several international organizations working to improve access to health information in Africa. Dr. Bukachi has written and spoken extensively on the subject of using information and communications technologies (ICTs) to access health information in Africa focusing primarily on the challenges and opportunities.
Marietje de Villiers is head of the School of Public and Primary Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa. Her research interests include continuing professional development of rural doctors in southern Africa.
Paul Glasziou is a general practitioner and director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK. He is also co-editor of 'Evidence-Based Medicine', a journal which alerts clinicians to important advances in internal medicine, general and family practice, surgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, and obstetrics and gynaecology. 'Evidence-Based Medicine' is published by the BMJ Publishing Group and is available free to developing countries via
HINARI. <www.cebm.net>
Edwin Mapara is a medical doctor trained at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. He is currently studying at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a former chief medical officer of Athlone Hospital, a 175-bed district hospital in Lobatse, Botswana, where he established the Athlone AIDS Awareness Programme, a model which is now being replicated in other district hospitals in Botswana. Edwin has a special interest in HIV/AIDS and the use of health information materials -especially TALC clinical slides - for sexual health promotion.
Maria Musoke is Medical Librarian at the Albert Cook Medical Library, Makerere University, Uganda. Her background is in the biological sciences and librarianship/information studies. She has been actively involved in AHILA, Communication for Better Health (CBH), AIM and other local, regional and international health information activities. She has recently obtained a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Sheffield, UK. Her interests include access to and use of health information in rural areas.
Michel Menou is an independent consultant based in France specialized in knowledge and information management, mostly in developing countries. He is also a visiting professor in various universities. He is particularly interested in monitoring and evaluation of information and ICT projects and information impact on development.
Naina Pandita is Senior Technical Director and Head and Project Coordinator of the ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information (Indian MEDLARS
Centre, IMC), National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, India. She is interested in health/biomedical information especially digital resources and open access initiatives. IMC has designed two databases,
IndMED, a bibliographic database of peer reviewed Indian biomedical journals and
medIND, full-text of select IndMED journals. These are accessible free of cost from the Centre's site.
<http://indmed.nic.in>
Helen Strong works with Interprax Ltd, South Africa. Interprax develops software applications in medical records and health inforamtion management systems, and technology for distribution and updating of information. Interprax has particular experience in access to information in rural areas of developing countries.
See also Steering Group
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