About GHDonline.org
GHDonline is where health care implementers from multiple organizations share proven practices, resources and tools, and connect with the people they need to improve health outcomes in resource-limited settings.
By joining GHDonline communities, global health practitioners can:
• Rapidly disseminate and exchange best practices and experiences.
• Collaborate with a network of peers at local and international levels for critical situations responses and support.
• Access a growing body of practical information created and recommended by community members.
GHDonline is one of the core components of the Global Health Delivery project. The GHD project leadership team includes Drs. Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer, co-founders of Partners In Health, and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter.
The Need for GHDonline
Reliable and current health care delivery information can be difficult to obtain in the communities that need it most because:
• Information is too fragmented.
• Health care practitioners in the world’s poorest countries work in isolation.
• Scale-up of services faces a desperate shortage of trained professionals and new approaches.
In addition, health care programs and facilities need people from multiple functional areas - both clinical and non-clinical, and not all organizations have direct access to these resources.
The GHD team has chosen a transversal and targeted approach to address these issues by developing communities around key Global Health Delivery areas, and by bringing together practitioners and leaders in the field and guiding them in defining common challenges and goals for each new community.
In addition, health care programs and facilities need access to both clinical and non-clinical people - and not all organizations have direct access to these resources.
The GHD team is taking a targeted approach to address these issues by developing communities around key Global Health Delivery areas, and by bringing together practitioners and leaders in the field and guiding them in defining common challenges and goals for each community.
GHDonline Communities
Communities are composed of health practitioners who, because of their mission and role, have common challenges and objectives, and therefore have a vested interest in creating and joining an active online group. They are either open or private, and each has specific missions developed by its own moderators and members.
The following features are available in all communities:
• Discussions, favoring exchange of best practices and knowledge.
• Resources: practical information - from documents and guidelines to check lists.
• Features: Highlighted resources and/or discussions as chosen by moderators. Features always appear at the top of the home page of each community.
A powerful search engine also makes finding key information easy and quick. Preserving and recommending available content at the right time adds incredible value as practitioners have the information they need - right there.
GHDonline also offers seamless contributions via email, so members can receive and reply to updates in communities using their regular email, just like sending an email to a mailing list.
GHDonline also supports multiple languages, and will soon automatically detect optimum settings for low-bandwidth users.
GHDonline Partners
Founding Collaborators
• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health
• Harvard Medical School
• Partners In Health
Partners
• Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
• Commission Nationale de Lutte Contre le SIDA, Rwanda
Supporters
Additional support is provided by The Leon Lowenstein Foundation, The Schooner Foundation, and private donors.
For more information about GHDonline partners, please click here.
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