Many thanks Indi,
As mentioned in his HIFA profile, Indi is a volunteer on the HIFA Open Access project working group, along with Chris Winchester and Joanna Donnelly (both representing our sponsor Oxford PharmaGenesis), Lacey Lagrone (United States), Rabia Khaji (Tanzania), Virginia Barbour (Australia) and myself. You can see our profiles here: https://www.hifa.org/projects/open-access
While we were discussing which questions to ask, Indi proposed Question 4: How would you design an OA system that retains the benefits but fixes the problems of the current OA system? We're very much looking forward to hear your views on this.
Here again are the guiding questions for our discussion:
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.
Feel free to comment on any aspect of open access at any time.
Invite your contacts and networks to join us: https://www.hifa.org/news/hifa-announces-deep-dive-discussion-healthcare...
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