Re-direct general COVID messages to HIFA

9 April, 2020

Dear CHIFA colleagues,

I would like to invite all CHIFA members with a general interest in coronavirus to join our sister forum HIFA, where there is an ongoing discussion - more than 350 messages to date. You can join here: www.hifa.org/joinhifa<http://www.hifa.org/joinhifa> HIFA has also set up a dedicated RSS feed here: http://www.hifa.org/news/coronavirus

There is a large amount of information here which may answer your questions!

Meanwhile, please do continue to share your experience and expertise on how coronavirus impacts on the health and rights of children, whether directly or indirectly, here on CHIFA: chifa@dgroups.org

Best wishes,

Tony Waterston

CHIFA Lead moderator

Neil Packenham Walsh, HIFA Coordinator

CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA . www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.

www.hifa.org/people/steering-group www.hifa.org/support/members/tony

Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk