Poster that I presented at the 2012 Sustainable Connections & Collaborations for Health & Human Rights conference at University of Michigan CC BY The Regents of the University of Michigan

1. The African Health OER Network
Mission: The African Health Open Educational Resources (OER) Network (est. 2008) aims to advance
health education in Africa by creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials created by
Africans to share knowledge, address curriculum gaps, and support health education communities.
Challenges to Approach Results: Examples of Use
Health in Africa and Adaptation
Local Materials + Open Licenses = Greater Access, Ghana: University of Ghana students
• Low government Visibility, and Use of Knowledge Worldwide used an obstetrics module from
budget for health Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
• Low healthworker to and Technology
population ratio South Africa: University of Cape Town
• High disease burden created an occupational health module
• Scarce, aging, and that has been used on three continents
emigrating lecturers (Africa, Europe, and South America) and
has been translated into Spanish
for basic sciences Ethiopia: The Ministry of Health distributed a Caesarean section
• Not enough learning module by University of Ghana
instructors or Nigeria: Medical residents used gynecology surgery videos from
classroom spaces University of Ghana
• Repetitive Botswana: University of Botswana created a collection of pre-
instructional clinical supplemental
responsibilities resources using materials
from University of Michigan,
• Large lectures and
Johns Hopkins University,
crowded clinical Tufts University, and others
situations
• Lack of affordable,
Community Collection Usage
contextually
•160 people trained in •135 modules •8500 views/mo on website
appropriate
open licenses •339 materials •861K views on YouTube
instructional Visualization of greatest word
•115 authors •144 videos (906 minutes) •795 favorites on YouTube
materials frequency in YouTube
•12 institutions •Accessed in 190+ countries •173 comments on YouTube
comments from wordle.com,
openmi.ch/a2datadive_ahon
Funded by: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | University of Michigan Medical School
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