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	Interested in global health, child health and rights? Work with CHIFA! Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Would you like to get more experience in public/global health, while working on some interesting and valuable projects, and gaining some great contacts? Child Healthcare Information for All (CHIFA) is looking for a CHIFA Desk Officer. This is a paid position for 4 hours a week (flexible timing), and is largely home-based/remote working, so it should be easy to fit it around your studies and/or work. The successful applicant would need to be based within 50 miles of Oxford to enable occasional visits tothe HIFA office for training and meetings.
	Humanitarian Evidence Week: Disaster Lit & HIFA Webinar, 9 November 2017 Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. EST / 3:00 p.m. GMT (UTC)
	HIFA Blog: Month in review, September 2017 - Family Planning Date: Thursday, November 2, 2017 Quote of the month: “If a woman becomes pregnant while wearing an Intra-Uterine Device, this device can enter the baby's body, even in his brain." (A misconception about the dangers of using IUDs, reported by Andre Shongo, HIFA Member and Country Representative, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
	Join HIFA for a global discussion on Evidence-Informed Humanitarian Action! Starts 16 October 2017 Date: Monday, October 9, 2017 Join HIFA!
	HIFA Blog: Month in review, August 2017 - Information, disasters and disease outbreaks Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Quote of the month: “I learnt about Ebola as a one page note during medical school. No special information was provided to doctors so I took to Google like everyone else. I continued working right through the outbreak and we faced challenges that we just muddled through." Bintu Mansaray (Sierra Leone)
	HIFA Prescribers and Users of Medicines Coordinator Sarah Cavanagh presents our work at the UKMi Practice Development Seminar, UK Date: Monday, September 25, 2017 Sarah Cavanagh is presenting a poster on 'Medicines Information for All: Improving the availability of information for prescribers and users of medicines worldwide', on behalf of the HIFA Prescribers and Users of Medicine Project, at the UKMi Practice Development Seminar this week in Birmingham, UK. The poster outlines the importance of the issue, the work of the project to date and proposed next steps.
	HIFA member Soumyadeep Bhaumick presents 'Understanding Implementation Research: Case study from the HIFA virtual discussion forum' at Global Evidence Summit Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 HIFA Country Representative Soumyadeep Bhaumick presented a poster on 'Understanding Implementation Research: Case study from the HIFA virtual discussion forum' at the Global Evidence Summit in Cape Town, 13-16 September 2017, on behalf of the HIFA Working Group on Evidence-Informed Policy & Practice. The three main themes, as described by HIFA members, are: 1. There is confusion about IR, particularly in relation to similar approaches like quality improvement, operational research, knowledge translation and health-services research.
	Join HIFA for a global discussion: Meeting the Family Planning and Contraception information needs of adolescents, girls, women, and men Date: Sunday, September 10, 2017 Join HIFA for a series of thoughtful discussions on how to meet the family planning and contraception (FP/C) information needs of the general public, healthcare providers, and policymakers in low- and middle-income countries, as ell as how to address harmful myths and misconceptions surrounding FP/C.
	HIFA Country Representative Jackeline Alger promotes HIFA at the XIII Central American and Caribbean Meeting on Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Honduras Date: Friday, August 25, 2017 HIFA Country Representative Jackeline Alger is giving a presentation about HIFA at the XIII Central American and Caribbean Meeting on Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, August 22 to 26, 2017, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She is also announcing the launch of HIFA-Spanish, which we aim to start later this year in collaboration with WHO, PAHO, and the Andalucian School of Public Health.
	HIFA Discussion on Systematic Reviews - Summary now available Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 From 15 May to 23 June 2017 the HIFA Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice working group supported a HIFA thematic discussion on Systematic Reviews, around five questions. 89 messages, from 36 contributors, were received. This 2-page narrative review summarizes the opinions expressed. See below for the full (76p) and edited (22p) versions of the discussion, respectively: