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London NHS-HE Conference Tuesday 13th November 2012
Saving lives through reliable health information
Partnerships in Health Information (Phi)
PRESENTERS Shane Godbolt, Phi
Potenza Atiogbe,
Epsom and St Helier University
Hospitals NHS Trust Ania Nogal, e-KAT , London Deanery Lucy Reid, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust Maria Musoke , Makerere University, Uganda
Overview
• The need for health information
• Partnerships in Health Information
• Case studies: Uganda & Tanzania
• Conclusion
The need: people are dying for lack
of knowledge
“Reliable health information is the foundation of good health, which is
essential to reduce poverty “ Jean Shaw, Research Officer, Phi
Millennium Development Goals:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Health related Goals:
Goal 4. Reduce child deaths worldwide by two-thirds
Goal 5. Reduce maternal deaths worldwide by three-quarters
Goal 6. Reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other major diseases, and provide universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS.
About Phi
• Founded 1992
• Trustees; health professionals including librarians, academics & other NGO colleagues
• Programmes Officer 2006 -2010; full time grant funded post . 2011 – volunteers until Jan 2012 Phi Africa Office
• Pan African partners – ITOCA and AHILA
• Enabled expansion of activities & alignment with government level emphasis on partnerships
Phi’s objectives
• Support African Leadership to improve the
availability and quality of health information; Capacity building for health information professionals & librarians
• Work in partnerships with others to strengthen health information systems in Africa
Facilitating health information partnerships & development projects
• Improve public access to health information (PAHI) in Africa
Sponsored PAHI workshop in three languages at AHILA 13 Cape Verde
Track record to date
• Essential need for Phi's activities were promoted in the Crisp Report
• Developed broad portfolio of projects and partnership activities (funded by BMA, INASP, DelPHE, IFLA, THET & others)
• Substantial experience in working with partners to support library service development in societies where local hierarchy's and high rates of illiteracy are the norm
• Strong working relations with other organisations and groups working in the field of health information
Where and who we are working with
Country focus:
• Ethiopia
• Uganda
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Kenya
• Zambia
• Nigeria
Strategic collaborations:
• THET (MoU)
• INASP
• HIFA2015
• AHILA
• ITOCA (MoU)
• IFLA
• CILIP esp.HLG & ILIG
Future direction
• Strategic partnerships
• Strategic issues
• Fundraising
Getting Practical - Opportunities
If you would like to be more involved
• Commonwealth Professional Fellows; help with
hosting Mid Feb – early April 2013
• Join Friends of Phi
• Speak to us on our stand
Case Study – Uganda 1
Potenza Atiogbe
Overview
• The Uganda partnership – Brief History
• Exchange visits
• My involvement
• eLearning workshop (October to November 2012)
• The future
The Partnership – brief history
• Makerere University Library & Albert Cook
Medical Library, Uganda & Kent, Surrey &
Sussex Library and Information Services &
London Health Libraries
• Since 1994 (informal partnership)
• Funding, collaboration, understanding and
learning
Formal Partnership
2000: Guided by Partnerships in Health
Information (Phi)
‘The aim of the partnership will be to
encourage the free flow of health related
knowledge between nations’
My Involvement
• 2004 – Deputy Head of Library Services,
Surrey and Sussex
• 2005 and 2009 – Visit to Uganda: Launch
and development of the Albert Cook
Library website
• 2006 – Trustee for Phi
• 2007 – Lead for the UK Steering Group
• 2012 – eLearning workshop
Key themes
• Funding: British Council, TFPL, CILIP
• Collaboration: building the content
• Understanding: power cuts, Internet
access
• Learning: key skills to update the website
eLearning workshop - objectives
• Identify correctly the six stages to develop
e-learning as per the Training Foundation
TAP method
• Produce storyboards for an interactive e-
Learning module using basic tools such as
Power Point
eLearning workshop -Trainers
• Marisa Martinez Ortiz
– Diploma in eLearning
– Tutor on the Internet
– Author eLearning strategy for Surrey and Sussex
• Potenza Atiogbe
– TAP eLearning Design
– Facilitated Online Learning Interactive
Opportunity (FOLIO) course
– Open University student
eLearning workshop - Delivery
• 26 attendees
• Power Point presentations
• Flipchart exercises
• Practical session – design own eLearning
module via a storyboard
eLearning workshop – example
eLearning Tools
eLearning workshop -
evaluation
• 26 attendees
• Survey Monkey
• Positive comments
eLearning workshop –
evaluation examples
Key themes
• Funding: Elsevier
• Collaboration: participatory, two way
learning, forum
• Understanding: key issues e.g. Internet
• Learning: collective knowledge of
eLearning – rich and diverse, two way
Next steps
• Implementation of the learning: attendees
• Follow up workshop – blended learning
approach
• Interested in being involved?
Case Study – Uganda 2
Ania Nogal
Phi visit
Kampala
November
2012
Ania Nogal
eKAT
Elsevier Foundation project:
Enhancing Access to Current Literature by Health Workers in Rural Uganda and community Health Problem Solving
• visit to Naggalama hospital
Phi theme:
Building Strong Library Associations
Workshop : Impact of the Internet on healthcare information delivery: journey from library to mobile technology
Naggalama Hospital – workshops for health information workers in community
(am) and health care medical staff (pm)
Presentation on Malaria prevention
Audience – healthcare information workers in community
Naggalama Hospital - Emergency
laundry
Mending workshop
dryer
Hospital shops Per 100 beds 1 or 2
doctors
Building Strong Library Associations
Working in groups
Exercise: communicating & collaborating
without speaking a word
feedback
• Networking and partnerships
• Projects (RDD, ULS, EBM, KA24, Project Connect)
• From print to CD
• CD to online to www.lhlcatalogue.nhs.uk and
• Communication: www.hilo.nhs.uk and www.londonlinks.nhs.uk mailing lists
• Promotion
• Mobile technology
Impact of the Internet on healthcare
information delivery: journey from library to
mobile technology
Discussions in groups
Break and fun
How many believe mobile technology is the future?
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Lucy Reid
Case Study -Tanzania
Partnership started in 2006
• Six partners
– Partnerships in Health Information
– Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
– Tanzania Library Services Board • School of Library Archive and Documentation Studies
– University of West London
– Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• DelPHE funding from 2008 – DfID and British Council to support north/south HE partnerships
– 3-year project
Project objectives
• Improvement of health in Tanzania focusing on
maternal and reproductive health and
communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS, TB,
malaria and cholera 1. Embedding information skills training the MUHAS curriculum
2. Developing a health information module for library students at
SLADS
3. Developing a network of Health Corners for members of the
public to access good quality, appropriate health information
Health in Tanzania
• Maternal death = 6 women /1,000 live births (NBS 2007).
Lifetime risk = 1/24
• HIV/AIDS prevalence = 6 % (15-49 years)
• Malaria, cholera and TB affect significant numbers of
people
• Health information systems mostly situated in urban
areas with poor coverage in rural areas
• Access to relevant information is crucial to the
economic, political, and social well-being of any
community (UNESCO)
Year 1 – 2008-9
• Baseline study
– Identifying needs of library staff (TLSB)
– Mapping resources available for Health Corners
• Exchange visits
– Sharing knowledge about local needs (staff and
users) and facilities
– Learning from existing services with similar aims
– Workshops on delivering information to members of
the public
– Training on health information skills
– Introductory presentation to library students at SLADS
• Developing information skills programmes for
undergraduates and postgraduates at MUHAS
• Improving infrastructure at MUHAS
• Developing partnership working between MUHAS
(appraising health information) and TLSB (network for
dissemination)
• PhD study – Effectiveness of communication channels in
disseminating HIV/AIDS information
• Exchange visit to UK
• Presentation at HLG and poster at IFLA
Year 2 – 2009-10
Year 3 – 2010-12
• Project extended due to personnel changes
• Information literacy training embedded as mandatory
component of undergraduate curriculum at MUHAS
• Curriculum for diploma students at SLADS submitted for
approval by National Council for Technical Education
• Health corners established at:
– MUHAS
– National Central Library
– Morogoro
– Dodoma
• Further evidence-based practice training in Tanzania
• Programme of visits to health libraries in HE, NHS and
public sector providing consumer health information and
information literacy training
• Meeting with partner organisations
• Evidence-based practice workshops
• Project planning and review
• Capacity building
Annual exchange visits
MUHAS Library
IT training room
Dodoma and Morogoro libraries
Workshops at MUHAS
Health Corners at MUHAS and
National Central Library
• Tanzania faces significant health challenges
• Access to health information for members of the public is
difficult
• Libraries are ideally placed to deliver health information
to members of the public
• Institutions working in partnership have resources and
skills to deliver health information in a way that is
suitable for members of the public
• Librarians need to repackage information and develop
ways of disseminating it to the community
Lessons learnt
Maria Musoke
Makerere University
Conclusion
Partnership working
• leads to mutual learning & mutual benefit
• is more effective
• delivers better outcomes
BUT
• takes considerable time & effort
• needs strong commitment
• involves building trust & friendship