A Few Good Links....
I was curious about the conference my friend Ed Jezierski of InSTEDD is attending in South Africa, so I did a little sleuthing and ended up wandering links.... When he has a chance to catch his breath, I am hoping Ed publishes a few posts himself, but in the meantime, armed with some Twitter hints, I found:
HISA:, which I am guessing stands for "Health Informatics South Africa," although nowhere on the site does it actually say (sigh...everybody needs an editor...). The website promises digital abstracts, but so for nothing has been posted online.
One of Ed's tweets mentioned a woman named Heather Zornetzer, who has done some interesting work tracking children's health in Central America. As of this fall, she will be the ICT program coordinator at the San Francisco-based -- Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI). I certainly liked the sound of that, so did a little more digging on the site:
Global health relies on biomedical scientists and public health workers who can recognize and resolve infectious disease problems at a local level. In developing countries, these investigators face tremendous challenges, including the lack of technical training, research tools, financial resources, and up-to-date scientific information.
The mission of Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI) is to develop scientific research capacity in areas with pressing public health problems.
To that end, SSI helps local biomedical scientists gain access to training, funding, information, equipment, and supplies, so that they can better meet the public health needs of their communities.
Zornetzer's background crosses ag, tech and public health:
Heather joined the Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI) as the ICT Program Coordinator in 2008. Heather, who will be starting as an MPH student in the Infectious Disease Division at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health in the fall of 2008, comes to SSI with an M.S. from UC Davis in International Agricultural Development and a B.A. in Biology from Reed College. As the ICT Program Coordinator, Heather is describing and evaluating the multiple ICT systems that are currently being developed and implemented as part of a collaboration between SSI and the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health to improve national immunization coverage, maternal and prenatal health and chronic diseases. Heather has been working with various NGOs in Nicaragua since 1999 to improve the health of rural communities.
She's also a member of a couple of Meetup groups that look interesting.
SSI partners with several groups, including Scientists Without Borders (does no one have any borders any more?), which is affiliated with NY Academy of Sciences. As it happens, a couple of reporter friends attended a reception hosted by SWB about a month ago. Their whole raison d'etre is about bringing down "silos of expertise" (see article, "A Need to Connect") Sound familiar?
And now you know how I find sources!
6/25/08: And here's Ed's post for the techies out there: Mesh4x SMS Adapter: Sync data without an Internet connection
HISA:, which I am guessing stands for "Health Informatics South Africa," although nowhere on the site does it actually say (sigh...everybody needs an editor...). The website promises digital abstracts, but so for nothing has been posted online.
One of Ed's tweets mentioned a woman named Heather Zornetzer, who has done some interesting work tracking children's health in Central America. As of this fall, she will be the ICT program coordinator at the San Francisco-based -- Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI). I certainly liked the sound of that, so did a little more digging on the site:
Global health relies on biomedical scientists and public health workers who can recognize and resolve infectious disease problems at a local level. In developing countries, these investigators face tremendous challenges, including the lack of technical training, research tools, financial resources, and up-to-date scientific information.
The mission of Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI) is to develop scientific research capacity in areas with pressing public health problems.
To that end, SSI helps local biomedical scientists gain access to training, funding, information, equipment, and supplies, so that they can better meet the public health needs of their communities.
Zornetzer's background crosses ag, tech and public health:
Heather joined the Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI) as the ICT Program Coordinator in 2008. Heather, who will be starting as an MPH student in the Infectious Disease Division at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health in the fall of 2008, comes to SSI with an M.S. from UC Davis in International Agricultural Development and a B.A. in Biology from Reed College. As the ICT Program Coordinator, Heather is describing and evaluating the multiple ICT systems that are currently being developed and implemented as part of a collaboration between SSI and the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health to improve national immunization coverage, maternal and prenatal health and chronic diseases. Heather has been working with various NGOs in Nicaragua since 1999 to improve the health of rural communities.
She's also a member of a couple of Meetup groups that look interesting.
SSI partners with several groups, including Scientists Without Borders (does no one have any borders any more?), which is affiliated with NY Academy of Sciences. As it happens, a couple of reporter friends attended a reception hosted by SWB about a month ago. Their whole raison d'etre is about bringing down "silos of expertise" (see article, "A Need to Connect") Sound familiar?
And now you know how I find sources!
6/25/08: And here's Ed's post for the techies out there: Mesh4x SMS Adapter: Sync data without an Internet connection
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