Dear HIFA colleagues,
We now enter the last few days of our thematic discussion on health workers' informal use of mobile phones (which is mainly about how health workers use their personal mobile phones for work purposes).
It would be great to learn more from those who have been involved in the primary research in Uganda (which looked at the perspectives of (a) health workers, and (b) policymakers).
Also, on 6 June there will be a policy dialogue on the topic at WHO HQ. Are there any issues we could look at here on the HIFA forum to feed into this?
There was a regional policy dialogue several weeks ago at WHO EMRO. Do we have a summary of this dialogue we could circulate?
I will check with my colleagues on mHealth-Innovate...
Best wishes, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org