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Zambia Health Information Portals |
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| The Sparkman Center for Global
Health at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the
University of Iowa WiderNet “eGranary” Project, and
colleagues at health institutions in Zambia have teamed up
to build a digital library of health information resources
for students and practitioners in medicine, nursing, public
health, and other health-related disciplines. For more
general information about the eGranary project, please
visit www.widernet.org/eGranary
To overcome limitations of access to the Internet (either
because of limited availability, slow speed, or high cost),
the eGranary Digital Library provides a LAN/Intranet based
off-line repository of digital information. The eGranary
interface is much like the Internet, and users can access
videos, CDs/DVDs, PDFs, websites, and basically any material
that can be digitized. This project will help users of the
eGranary access health information and training materials
through specially created "portals".
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| ● Latest News |
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| The eGranary was installed at four health institutions in
Lusaka, Zambia during the June/July of 2009 (University of
Zambia-UTH, Chainama College of Health Sciences, CIDRZ, and
ZAMFOHR). View the PDF of a
poster presentation
given at Unite for Sight 2010 in New Haven, CT. |
| ● View the
Portals in Progress |
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| ● Invitation for
Collaboration |
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| To our Zambian colleagues: We invite input from
Zambian administrators, faculty members, and students as to the
content, structure, and organization of the digital library portals. To our colleagues in the US and elsewhere: We
invite health and information sciences professionals and students to
send suggestions of websites of useful health related
resources. Please see the structure and existing content in the
portal pages.
For more information, and to send your suggestions, please
contact Heather Lee at
[email protected] or Mary White at
[email protected] |
| ● Endorsements and
Support |
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About the Sparkman Center: This project was
graciously funded by the Sparkman Center for Global Health at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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The mission of the UAB
Sparkman Center for Global
Health is to contribute to solutions of health
problems in developing countries through
graduate-level public health education, research,
and training programs. These programs are organized
collaboratively with academic institutions,
international agencies, and health ministries within
the host country. Additionally, the Center works to
enhance the capacity of the UAB community to engage,
prepare, and support current and future health
professionals through a global health agenda. |
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