Priorities, activities, accomplishments and plans for the ePORTUGUÊSe Program
Priorities
The ePORTUGUÊSe aims at:
- Scaling up education and training of health workers in all Portuguese-speaking countries
- Promote and implement technical cooperation for continuity and sustainability of the National Virtual Health Libraries (VHL) and training in countries that will allow health workers to share experiences in their own language, on their common health challenges, and create a supportive community for addressing these challenges, through the adoption and use of best practices
- Strengthen knowledge production and sharing of knowledge in Portuguese
- Strengthen the discussion group HIFA-pt
- Encourage distance learning programmes
- Increase the number of Blue Trunk Library (BTL) delivered
- Promote training for managers of BTL
- Use ICT and social media to promote the exchange of local knowledge
- Collaborate with HINARI training workshops in Portuguese-speaking countries
Aligned with:
- Kampala Declaration
- Bamako Declaration on health research
- Algiers Declaration on research for health in the African Region
- Knowledge Management and Sharing Department Strategic Plan
Accomplishments in 2012
In 2012 the ePORTUGUÊSe focused on creating eLearning opportunities and a good example was the online Course on Patient Safety Research that attracted more than 16,000 subscriptions for the 8 modules.
A clear demonstration of the need to provide more of these trainings for health professionals from the Portuguese-speaking countries.
Accomplishments in 2012:
- Delivery of 41 Blue Trunk Libraries: 40 to Mozambique and 1 to Sao Tome and Principe
- Increased members of the discussion Group HIFA-pt from 1616 to 1851 in December 2012
- Translations:
- Translated and produced a GOe (Global Observatory for eHealth) selected reports report in Portuguese
- Translated APPS selected materials
- Updated HINARI training materials
- Translated several WHO videos for WHO health campaigns
- WHO report on neglected tropical diseases (Working to overcome the global impact on neglected tropical diseases)
- Assessing tackling patient harm: a methodological guide to data-poor hospitals
- Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women
- Created and strengthened partnerships with:
- Global Outbreak Alert Response Network (GOARN)
- Rede RUTE – Telemedicine University Network from Brazil
- African Partnership for Patient Safety (APPS)
- Received an award of recognition for supporting South-South Collaboration at the 2012 South-South EXPO
- Participated at the Global eHealth Ambassadors Programme chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Lisbon/Portugal
- Continued to create opportunities for Internship in the network – In 2012 the ePORTUGUÊSe received 8 interns
Plans for 2013
- Provide an evaluation of the ePORTUGUÊSe Programme
- Continue to work with other WHO Departments to strengthen collaboration with the Portuguese-speaking countries in different areas such as: GOARN, EVIPNet, HINARI, Patient Safety, APPS, Vaccine Safety
- Strengthen collaboration with African Partnership for Patient Safety (APPS), Brazil and Portugal
- Encourage eLearning programmes in collaboration with Brazilian and Portuguese Universities such as Rede RUTE – University Telemedicine Network from the Ministry of Sciences and Technology from Brazil
- Support delivery of BTL
- Strengthen use of social media
- Support translation of selected materials