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HIFA colleagues, I hadn't known that several of us had HINARI's launch in common. HINARI is what drew me to WHO in 2001, as it was launching soon after I invented NextGenU.org -- I spent several weeks in Geneva volunteering on HINARI and discussing creating accessible health sciences education, then becoming the Coordinator (from 2002-2006) for the nascent WHO Health InterNetwork Education and Training initiative (HINET).
How gratifying to see all these wonderful direct and indirect outcomes from HINARI!
Erica
Erica Frank, MD, MPH, FACPM
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Affiliate Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia
Inventor/Founder, www.NextGenU.org <http://www.nextgenu.org/>
Principal Investigator, Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient
HIFA profile: Erica Frank is the Founder and President of NextGenU.org, the world's first portal to free, accredited higher education, now being used in 193 (of 195) countries, and offering the world's first free degree (a Master's degree in Public Health), as well as a MedSchoolInABox that includes Graduate Medical Education. Erica is Professor and Canada Research Chair of Preventive Medicine and Population Health at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and is a physician specializing in preventive medicine. Her research established the strong and consistent influence of clinicians' health habits on their patients. She was Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Preventive Medicine (1994-1999), and the 2008 President of the Nobel Peace Prize winning (1985 and 2017) Physicians for Social Responsibility. erica.frank AT ubc.ca