INFORM/ Tanzania Health

A thousand facilitators and end-users will be taught, in this ICT-in-health project in Tanzania, to utilize online resources and information about health problems.Swedish trainers will work with Tanzanian counterparts in running workshops, including in rural areas.INFORM provides on-site, topic-focused information training. In Tanzania, 20 institutions are involved, including the Ministry of Health, COSTECH, and DIT.
Summary of project objectives: 

The project will train a substantial core group of medical information trainers and provide them with mentroship and support while they train about 1000 medical information end-users (doctors and other health professionals in how to access online information resources. The objects are to promote development by encouraging changes in the local information culture, by helping to remove cultural and organizatonal hindrances blocking usage of online medical resources, and by assuring that a substantial number of medical professionals can competently access online information resources for application in research, clinical practice and policy formulation.

Partners: 
Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS)
INFORM/Tanzania
Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT)
Contact person: 
Martha J Garrett
Field of work: 
Medicine and Public Health
Funding: 
SEK 500.000
Project Duration: 
December, 2005 - December, 2007
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