K4Health Enhancements

  • Blog post

    We are delighted to introduce the new website for Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers, at www.fphandbook.org. The Handbook is one of K4Health's flagship publications, and we wanted it to have a website that did it justice.

  • Blog post

    POPLINE has been around for nearly forty years, providing an authoritative source for the world's scientific and unpublished-but-reliable literature on population, family planning, and reproductive health. The POPLINE team adds thousands of new records every year, keeping the database up-to-date and highly relevant.

    But the last time the POPLINE website changed significantly was in 2003. Its web presence was creating the misleading impression that the database was out of date.

  • Blog post

    The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project is pleased to announce that changes are coming to the POPLINE website (www.popline.org). POPLINE is the world’s largest database of reproductive health literature, and thousands of new records are added every year. But while the database is up-to-date, the website itself has not had a major upgrade in quite some time.

  • Blog post

    I've written quite a bit about the user feedback and usability reasons behind the recent series of enhancements to K4Health's web products portfolio, but there is also a technical reason for the changes: the lifecycle of Drupal. Drupal is a widely-used open source content management platform that JHU·CCP has been using to build websites since 2007.

  • Blog post

    This is the fourth in a series of posts about changes to K4Health's web products portfolio (here’s Part 1 from December, Part 2 from March, and Part 3 from April).

    The newest change in the grand scheme of changes to K4Health's web products portfolio is up. The revised Toolkits application has had its first road test with the mHealth Toolkit, which went live on Thursday.

    The Toolkits system is a knowledge management tool for groups and organizations in the public health sphere, allowing them to effectively present and curate a collection of resources online. The biggest differences between the new Toolkits system and the previous version are:

  • Blog post

    One of the outstanding "tidying up" items from our recent website updates is the K4Health Newsletter archives.

    You can access our most recent newsletters here: March 2012 | February 2012 | January 2012

  • Blog post

    This is the third in a series of posts about upcoming changes to our web product portfolio (here’s Part 1 from December, and Part 2 from March). The next big set of changes has arrived: the enhancements to K4Health’s main website, www.k4health.org, are rolling out today. I'd like to say a huge "Thank you!" to everyone involved in this process. It has been an amazing group effort, and I'm proud to work with such a great team.

    What’s New? In addition to the more modern, engaging look (already familiar to our blog readers), you’ll find several new features, including:

  • Blog post

    This is the second part of a series on the now-in-progress enhancements to the K4Health Web Products Portfolio. Read Part 1 (Photoshare and the Blog).

    Updating the Main K4Health.org Site: We Hear You

    As you may know, we have been working on several enhancements to K4Health’s web-based products. The next piece of this project to roll out will be a revised www.k4health.org. You’ll see changes within the next few weeks. (Later this spring, we will also be rolling out long-awaited improvements to Toolkits and POPLINE, a second round of Photoshare upgrades, and some more surprises.)

    The upcoming changes are our response to the concerns raised by you—the people who rely on K4Health for high-quality, up-to-date information about family planning and reproductive health and related global health issues. We have turned our knowledge management expertise and the best practices we recommend to others onto ourselves.  Based on what we found our users need and want, we have revised how we arrange and share knowledge on K4Health.org, our flagship website.

  • Blog post

    You might (we hope!) have noticed some changes around here. Our new-and-improved blog platform is part of an ongoing series of enhancements to K4Health’s web products portfolio. These changes are based on feedback from the people who collaborate on and use our products—website visitors, blog readers, Toolkit builders, Photoshare devotees, POPLINE researchers, and eLearning students.