This document provides information about a webinar on meeting the information needs of healthcare providers in lower and middle income countries. The webinar featured presentations from INASP, Ubiquity Press, and HIFA. INASP works to improve access to research and knowledge in developing countries. Ubiquity Press focuses on open access publishing and works with partners in the global south. HIFA is a global campaign and knowledge network that aims to ensure all health workers have access to health information. The webinar discussed challenges healthcare providers face in accessing information, and different approaches to addressing this issue.

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2. Strengthening research
and knowledge systems in
lower and middle income
countries
@INASPinfo
www.inasp.info

3. Ethiopia July 2015
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5. Materials science in Ethiopia
“You only need a couple of weeks in Ethiopia to
realise that materials science is a priority…
…Even in the capital you’ll experience cuts in power
and water; in rural areas it’s even worse…
….Producing quality and inexpensive bricks for
building houses, designing active water filters, and
supplying ‘off-the-grid’ energy systems for rural
areas are all vital to the country’s development.”
Visiting academic
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6. What does INASP do?
INASP is an international charity
working with a global network of
partners to improve access,
production, communication and
use of research information and
knowledge, so that countries are
equipped to solve their
development challenges
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7. Access
• Work in 22 partner countries, building skills to
enable affordable, sustainable access to
research information
• Offer 150 packages, containing about 50,000
journals and 20,000 books
• Consortia make annual selections based on
research interests and budget
• Sustainability is key, so we are preparing
consortia to take over responsibility for access
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8. INASP’s principles for responsible
engagement #inaspprinciples
1. Make an effort to understand the country
context
2. Respect a country’s wish to negotiate as
a consortium or purchasing club
3. Avoid making sudden changes
4. Think medium to long term on pricing
5. Be realistic about sales expectations
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9. Production and communication of
research
www.authoraid.info
• Supporting developing country
researchers in writing up and publishing
their work
Journals OnLine
• Raising visibility of Southern research
• Addressing quality of Southern journals
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10. Use - Evidence-Informed Policy
Making (EIPM)
Strengthening the capacity of policymakers and
practitioners in the use of evidence
Aims:
• Promote the use of evidence in policy and practice
• Stimulate demand from policymakers for evidence
• Strengthen capacities to use evidence
• Strengthen links between researchers and
policymakers
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11. Our approaches
Finding ways that work – ways that fit countries’
needs
• Sustainability
– Embedding
– Organisational capacity development
• Networking and convening
– Mentoring, brokering relationships
• Scale
– Online courses
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12. To the end that
countries are equipped
to solve their own
development
challenges
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13. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
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Anne Powell Ruth Bottomley
apowell@inasp.info Rbottomley@inasp.info
@AnnePowellINASP @INASPinfo
@INASPinfo www.inasp.info
www.inasp.info

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Ubiquity Press and the South
Tom Mowlam, Director of Operations
‘Focus on the South’, webinar 1 December 2015

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To return control of publishing to societies, universities and
researchers, providing them with the infrastructure and support
to publish open access at a competitive cost.
About Ubiquity Press
Background
Mission
 Spun out of University College London in 2012
 Researcher-led
 50+ years publishing experience
(BioMed Central, PLoS, Elsevier, IoP)
 Current staff of 15, based in London
 Comprehensive approach: journals,
books, data, software, wetware…

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The Social Contract
of Science
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Data
• Results
• Software
• Hardware, wetware…
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For any questions, please contact
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Press portal and content management system
Sri Lanka Journals Online website: http://www.sljol.info/
Sri Lanka Journals Online

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Journal and journal management system (based on OJS)
Ceylon Medical Journal website: http://cmj.sljol.info/
Sri Lanka Journals Online

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Network and teamwork

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The Ubiquity Partner Network

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Thank you.
Tom Mowlam
tom.mowlam@ubiquitypress.com
Ubiquity Press website: http://www.ubiquitypress.com
Koh, A. 2012. Open Access Ahoy! An Interview with Ubiquity Press. The Chronicle of
Higher Education. Available: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ubiquity/43312
More information

26. Meeting the information needs of
healthcare providers in LMICs
UKSG Webinar, 1 December 2015
Contact: Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator
neil@hifa.org www.hifa.org
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27. Introduction
Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh
Oxford, UK
NHS/Ecuador/Peru 1983-90
 Medicine Digest/Wellcome Trust/WHO
1990-95
 INASP 1995-2004
 HIFA 2005-present
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28. HIFA
Global campaign and knowledge network
>15,000 members, 175 countries, 5 forums, En/Fr/Pt
HIFA vision: “A world where every person and
every health worker will have access to the
information they need to protect their own health
and the health of others."
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The HIFA forums are hosted by the
Dgroups Foundation - 700 CoPs
www.dgroups.info
Dgroups Vision: “A world where every person is able to contribute
to dialogue and decision-making for international development and
social justice.”

30. Health professionals lack access to
health information
“The studies suggest a gross lack of
knowledge about the basics on how to
diagnose and manage common diseases,
going right across the health workforce and
often associated with suboptimal, ineffective
and dangerous health care practices.”
Pakenham-Walsh N & Bukachi F. Information needs of health care
workers in developing countries: a literature review with a focus on
Africa. Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:30doi:10.1186/1478-4491-
7-30
http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/7/1/30
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31. Example: hospital care of children
'3 in 4 doctors caring for sick children in
Africa and Asia lack basic knowledge of
common causes of child death‘
Nolan T et al. Quality of hospital care for seriously ill children in less-
developed countries. Lancet 2001;357(9250):106-10
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-
6736(00)03542-X/fulltext#
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32. Example: home care of
diarrhoea
'4 in 10 mothers in India believe they should
withhold fluids if their baby develops diarrhoea,
thereby tragically increasing their risk of death
from dehydration' (India MoH, 2006)
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India. National
Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) 2005/6
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADK385.pdf
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33. Example: Ebola
“Ebola kills people; but more lives
are put at risk because of lack of
information or misinformation”
Dr. Guido Borghese, UNICEF Principal
Advisor Child Survival and Development for
West and Central Africa
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34. The Global Health
Information System
Paper: Can we achieve health information for all by 2015?
The Lancet, 2004; 364:295-300
Fiona Godlee, Neil Pakenham-Walsh et al.
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35. Doing health research
“Clinical trials should begin and end with
systematic reviews of relevant evidence”
Clinical trials should begin and end with systematic reviews of relevant
evidence: 12 years and waiting. Mike Clarke, Sally Hopewell, Iain Chalmers.
Lancet 2010;376:20-21.
http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61045-8/fulltext
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36. Publishing health research
“Abstracts of research should be routinely
available in the main language of the country
where the research was undertaken”
HIFA members (especially those in francophone and lusophone LMICs)
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37. Making research information
available
“Open access, open access, open access…”
Openness, transparency and sharing in health
research, publishing and information sciences
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open access

38. Making actionable information
available
WHO HQ
WHO Country Offices
Ministries of Health
Mass media
Publishers
Information services
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39. Acknowledgements
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BMA
WHO
Financial contributors (2015):
• British Medical Association (main funder)
• Africa Health
• Afro-European Medical & Research Network
• Anadach Group
• Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria
• Awojobi Clinic Eruwa
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Children for Health
• Commonwealth Nurses Federation
• Council of International Neonatal Nurses
• eCancer
• Elsevier
• Friends Of Chitambo
• Global Health Media Project
• Haiti Nursing Foundation
• HealthProm
• Intel Corporation
• International Child Health Group
• International Foundation for Dermatology
• International League of Dermatological Societies
• International Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health
• IntraHealth International
• Joanna Briggs Institute
• Knowledge Transfer Africa Ltd
• The Lancet
• LiveWell Initiative
• mPowering Frontline Health Workers
• Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba
• Network for Information and Digital Access
• Partnerships in Health Information
• Physicians for Haiti
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Quality + Care Solutions
• Royal College of Midwives
• The Test Foundation
• The Mother and Child Health and Education
Trust
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge
Translation & Health Technology Assessment in
Health Equity
• Wiki Project Med Foundation
• Your.MD
• Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance.

40. 1. Contact: Neil Pakenham-Walsh
neil@hifa.org
2. Continue the discussion on the
HIFA forum: www.hifa.org
Thank you
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41. INASP
www.inasp.info
@INASPinfo
Anne Powell
apowell@inasp.info
@AnnePowellINASP
Ruth Bottomley
Rbottomley@inasp.info
Ubiquity Press
http://www.ubiquitypress.com
Tom Mowlam
tom.mowlam@ubiquitypress.
com
HIFA – www.hifa.org
Neil Pakenham-Walsh
neil@hifa.org
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