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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, [email protected], [email protected]
• 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
