About GHDonline.org
GHDonline is the online platform of communities developed by the Global Health Delivery Project (GHD).
GHDonline enables open collaboration between global health implementers and organizations in online “communities of practice” in order to create a new breadth of knowledge applicable in the field, and democratize access to critical information to improve the delivery of health care worldwide. Six public communities focus on critical delivery challenges and are guided by expert moderators. GHDonline also hosts more than twenty private communities designed and maintained for specific organizations and collaborative initiatives.
By joining GHDonline communities, global health practitioners can rapidly disseminate and exchange proven practices and experiences,collaborate with a network of peers at local and international levels for critical situations responses and support, and access a growing body of practical information created and recommended by community members.
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. GHD 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.
GHDonline Communities
Members of GHDonline communities are professionals working in global health, health care and related services, and international and humanitarian development and projects. GHDonline communities are either public 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: from documents, guidelines to web links.
• Features: Highlighted content chosen by moderators. Features always appear at the top of the home page of each community.
A powerful search engine makes finding information easy and quick. GHDonline also offers seamless contributions via email, so members can receive and reply to discussions in communities using their regular email, just like sending an email to a mailing list. Last but not least, GHDonline supports multiple languages, enabling discussions in other languages than English.
If you or your organization is interested in creating a private community on GHDonline, or would like to suggest a public community, please send us an email with contact details using this link: contact us.
GHDonline Partners
There is a wealth of expertise in the global health, development, and medical fields, and GHDonline is interested to collaborate in various ways with organizations in the field to make sure that global health implementers can harness and leverage that breadth of knowledge to improve health outcomes worldwide. If your organization is interested in collaborating with GHDonline, please send us an email with contact details using this link: contact us.
Current partners include (for more details on these partnerships, please visit the "Partners" page):
Founding Collaborators
• Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
• Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business 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.
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