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Haiti Relief eToolkit: Looking at the Data One Year Later

Posted Thursday, 01/13/2011
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti last January, we should look back at the tremendous work that has been accomplished and be proud. However, we must also be prudent and acknowledge the challenges and needs that remain as the country rebuilds.
 

Global Health eLearning and Facebook, a Recipe for Distance Education

Posted Thursday, 01/06/2011

The U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau of Global Health has long been providing distance education to health professionals worldwide through the Global Health eLearning Center (GHeL). Born out of a need to keep the Agency’s field staff up-to-date on global health topics, the platform now hosts more than 40 courses and serves over 67,000 health professionals.

Oral Contraceptive Use and Mortality, Setting the Record Straight

Posted Wednesday, 12/08/2010
The long-term health effects of oral contraceptive use have been the focus of research, discussion and debate for quite some time.  
 
Oral contraceptives have a long history. In the United States, they became available to women in the early 1960s, and due to their convenience and effectiveness they have become the most popular form of birth control in the country. However, questions have been raised concerning the role that the hormones in oral contraceptives play in the development of some cancers.
 

Keeping Ahead of the Digital Revolution at the Online Information Conference

Posted Thursday, 12/02/2010

During the three days of the Online Information Conference in London, attendees were exposed to a myriad of topics ranging from the Semantic Web to building organizational identity with social media and everything in between.

Raising Awareness About Pneumonia Through Photography

Posted Friday, 11/12/2010

© 2009 Arie Basuki, Courtesy of Photoshare

K4Health: The Link Between Knowledge and Effective Decision-Making and Health Policy Development

Posted Tuesday, 11/09/2010
If disease is to be defeated, existing knowledge must be applied in ways that will improve health care, especially in low- and middle-income countries, researchers wrote in The Lancet in 2006. They added that applying what we know will have a larger impact on health and disease than any drug or technology likely to be introduced.
 

Advancing Cross-Sector Collaboration at the mHealth Summit

Posted Monday, 11/08/2010

The 2010 mHealth Summit kicked off on Monday in Washington, DC, bringing together thousands of health practitioners from over 48 countries to advance cross-sector collaboration in the use of wireless technology to improve health outcomes worldwide. 

Blog Action Day 2010: Blogging About Water for Women and Children

Posted Tuesday, 10/12/2010
About one billion people are currently living without one of the most basic human rights, the right to access clean and safe drinking water. This inequity is not just tragic, but is also undermining progress towards achieving all of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 – health, education, economic growth, gender equality; they are all interconnected to water.
 

Interagency Gender Working Group Launches IGWG Gender & Health eToolkit

Posted Wednesday, 10/06/2010

The Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) on Tuesday launched the IGWG Gender and Health eToolkit on K4Health.org. The eToolkit is a product of the IGWG, the K4Health Project and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It brings together an enormous wealth of gender resources in one location.

US Development to be More Accountable, Smart and Transparent, USAID Administrator Shah Says

Posted Friday, 09/24/2010

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