CGH estabilishes Global Health Informatics Partnership with the WHO

The George Washington University Center for Global Health (CGH) is working with the Public Health Mapping and Geographic Information System (GIS) Programme within the Department of Health Information and Statistics at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.  CGH will provide technical expertise in application development and training, and assist in the development of a community-oriented monitoring methods curriculum.

Initial activities have focused on the evaluation and testing of WHO partner-developed health informatics applications and related training materials.  Tova Reichel, CGH’s Africa Program Coordinator, and Ashley Sheffel, a GWU Global Health Service Fellow based in the WHO collaborative unit, assisted in the development of a Global Health (GH) Informatics curriculum. It will train MPH students and health researchers in relevant tools and technologies for remote field data collection and spatial analysis.

The newly designed GH Informatics curriculum, which consists of six hands-on modules, is currently being piloted with a select group of GH students, GH Service Fellows, and Doctoral Candidates.  The Department intends to implement the curriculum in Spring 2010 as part of its Overseas Community-Oriented Learning Program that will be taking place with GWU students and faculty at Moi University in Kenya and BRAC University in Bangladesh.

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