Democratizing health sciences knowledge Erica Frank, MD, MPH Founder and Executive Director, Health...

democratizing health sciences knowledge

Erica Frank, MD, MPH

Founder and Executive Director, Health Sciences Online

Professor and Canada Research Chair

UBC – School of Population and Public Health

Health Sciences Online:

The problem we’re fixing

• In 2006 WHO identified a need for 4.3 million more trained health workers globally

• It is clear this will require greater use of training innovation, especially through information and communication technologies

What is www.HSO.info ?• Health Sciences Online is the first website to deliver

authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge.

• Search any health sciences topic from over 50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other learning resources – in medicine (basic and clinical sciences), public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, and other health sciences disciplines.

• Materials are selected from accredited educational sources including universities, governments, and professional societies, by knowledgeable staff at HSO.

• Resources can be searched and retrieved in 52 languages.

HSO.info

HSO Home Page

Diabetes

52 Languages Available

• Afrikaans• Albanian• Arabic• Belarussian• Bulgarian• Catalan• Chinese (Tr)• Chinese (Si)• Croatian• Czech• Danish• Dutch • English

• Italian• Japanese• Korean• Latvian• Lithuanian• Macedonian• Malay• Maltese• Norwegian• Persian• Polish• Portuguese• Romanian

• Estonian• Filipino• Finnish • French• Galician• German• Greek• Hebrew• Hindi• Hungarian• Icelandic • Indonesian• Irish

• Russian• Serbian• Slovak• Slovenian• Spanish• Swahili• Swedish• Thai• Turkish• Ukrainian• Vietnamese• Welsh• Yiddish

Diabetes Search in French

Diabetes Search in Chinese

Diabetes Search in Japanese

HSO’S VISION – Phase I

A world where health professionals in training and practice access comprehensive, easily-found, high quality, free, current courses, references, and other learning resources to improve health.

Founding Collaborators and Funders

American College of Preventive Medicine

Annenberg Physician Training Program

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NATO – Science for Peace

University of British Columbia

World Bank

World Health Organization

World Medical Association

HSO Summary by Month – June 2010

MonthDaily Average

Hits Files Pages Visits

Jun 2010 6332 4918 5266 573

May 2010 5862 4590 4785 329

Apr 2010 5629 4013 4499 520

Mar 2010 4668 3360 3565 563

Feb 2010 4865 3144 3605 464

Jan 2010 4535 2803 2915 475

Dec 2009 3630 2314 2586 492

“Health Sciences Online is a visionary undertaking.” – Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, Former Director, U.S. CDC

“HSO.info will help globally democratize health science knowledge.” -Carmen Carpio, Knowledge Mgmt Officer, World Bank

"HSO is an incredible resource for health professionals all over the world. Open access to health information should literally save millions of lives and lead to important new discoveries.” -Anne Margulies, former Executive Director, Open Course Ware, MIT

“HSO is expected to make a considerable contribution to the advancement of e-learning worldwide.” -WHO, Building Foundations for E-Health, 2006

“The internet at its finest… a bonanza… a boon… an incredibly worthwhile enterprise… a model of what Health 2.0 and Science 2.0 can be… one of the most altruistic and honorable health service resources on the planet.” -Online reviews, 2009

HSO’S VISION – Phase II

A world where health professionals in training and practice continue to have free access to www.HSO.info -- a comprehensive, easily-found, high quality, free, current website, with courses, references, and other learning resources to improve health AND

A world where anyone can become and remain a well-trained health professional in any discipline where they are qualified – to answer WHO’s expressed needs.

A community-based model for a more knowledgeable/plentiful health workforce

• We propose using community-based education to enormously and rapidly expand the number of well-trained health workers, combining the best aspects of a 19th century apprenticeship with the 21st century’s most powerful, high quality, and efficient educational tools.

Populating from HSO

Populating from HSO

Examples of Educational InitiativesPublic Health (Epi, biostats, Env Health, Admin, Social/Behav) UBC

Physical Activity and Health CDC; ACSM; Fundacion Santa Fe Bogota

Dermatology for Primary Care Practitioners NATO; Yerevan State Medical University

Perinatal Care (pre/intra/post partum, women’s and infants’ health) WHO, FIGO, MWIA

Immunology UBC, PUEA

Nutrition and Health UBC/ University of West Indies (Barbados, Jamaica)

Pre-medical Certificate Univ of Cape Town

Foundations of Preventive Medicine APTR?

Biochemistry Kenya/PUEA and UBC

Adolescent Health ACPM

CVD Prevention (child and adult) CINI, Procor, Universidad de los Andes

Introduction to Pathology

Field Medicine

Hospital and Clinic-acquired infectious disease WHO

Pulmonology Intl Primary Care Resp

Speech/Language Pathology Utah State/ASHA?

Climate Change and Health PSR

Certificate in Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol Abuse Annenberg Foundation, Betty Ford Institute

Surgery (general, ortho, ophthalmology, urology) Harvard's Global Surg Prgm, Univ of Zambia, Educ Cmte COSECSA

Erica Frank, MD, MPHefrank@emory.edu, erica.frank@ubc.ca

• Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health and Department of Family Practice

• Founder and Executive Director, Health Sciences Online

• Founder and Principal Investigator, Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient

• Immediate Past President, Physicians for Social Responsibility