Dear HIFA colleagues,
I look forward to your engagement with the upcoming discussion on open access, officially starting 13 October.
We are grateful to Oxford PharmaGenesis for sponsoring this project. We are dependent on sponsored projects to provide the income we need to maintain and develop HIFA. Such projects account for more than two-thirds of our total income.
Here again are the guiding questions:
Week 1. What is the impact of open access (OA) on health care?
Week 2. What is your experience of OA as a healthcare professional/reader?
Week 3. What is your experience of OA as a researcher/author?
Week 4. How would you design an OA system that retains the benefits but fixes the problems of the current OA system?
Week 5. Open discussion and next steps.
The best way for you to support this project is by sending an email (or several!) to hifa@hifaforums.org - we look forward to your contributions. The more contributions we have, the richer will be our discussion.
You are welcome to comment on any of the above questions at any time.
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