National HINARI workshops in the WPRO region

A national HINARI workshop for medical librarians, health personnel and researchers was conducted at the Divine Word University in Madang, Papua New Guinea, on 28-30 August 2006. The participants considered the workshop very useful in searching for relevant and timely health information. Another national HINARI training course was organized in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 18-20 October 2006, with the cooperation of the Health Sciences University of Mongolia. The training course was widely publicized through television and newspaper and the participants were exhorted by the president of the university to share with their office colleagues and other researchers the knowledge and skills they learned and be more active to conduct health researches.