Healthcare Information For All
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| Type | Global Knowledge Network |
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| Headquarters | Charlbury, Oxford, UK |
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Coordinator
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Dr. Neil Pakenham-Walsh |
| Website | Official website |
Healthcare Information For All (HIFA) is a global network of health professionals, publishers, librarians, technologists, researchers, and policymakers. Formerly known as HIFA2015 (Healthcare Information For All by 2015), the network was rebranded as HIFA in 2014. They have over 16,000 members from 2500 separate organisations in 175 countries worldwide.
HIFA was formally launched in October 2006 at the 10th Congress of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa in Mombasa, Kenya. The network is administered by the Global Healthcare Information Network, a nonprofit organisation based in the United Kingdom. Universal and user-friendly access to relevant, reliable health information is considered a vital part of meeting the World Health Organization's goal of Health For All and the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals.
The HIFA community interacts on five discussion forums: HIFA, CHIFA, HIFA-Portuguese, HIFA-French, and HIFA-Zambia. HIFA forums are hosted on the Dgroups platform.
CHIFA (2006-), formerly known as CHILD2015, focuses on child health and rights and has more than 3000 global child health professionals. CHIFA is administered jointly by Global Healthcare Information Network, International Child Health Group (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health), and International Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health.
HIFA-French (2010-) is a collaboration between the World Health Organization and Global Healthcare Information Network. The forum was originally called HIFA-EVIPNet-French and had a focus on the information needs of policy makers for health in francophone Africa, in association with the Evidence-Informed Policy Network at the World Health Organization. In 2015, the forum expanded its remit to become HIFA-French, in association with the Health Service Delivery department of WHO.
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