Conference Session 162
Beyond barriers to accessing health information
Health and Biosciences Libraries Section with Library Services to People with Special Needs
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
17 August 2011 09:30 - 12:45 | Room: Grand Salon B | SI
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Keynote: Beyond barriers to accessing health information
JUAN CARLOS DIAZ RICO (WHO / Pan-American Health Organization, Washington D.C., USA) -
Building capacity: lessons learnt from intensive health information training programme in Vietnam
PETER BURNETT and MARTIN BELCHER (INASP, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, United Kingdom) -
Best practices for medical information needs assessment and partnership building: the experiences of two institutions in two African countries
ANNE SEYMOUR (Biomedical Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA) and ANN LINTON (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington Library, Washington D.C., USA) -
Bridging health information services gaps through community outreach Programs at the Public Library
JENNIFER MCDANIEL (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA), AIMEE BABCOCK-ELLIS (US Department of Justice, Arlington, VA, USA) and JESSICA HERNANDEZ (US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, USA) -
"Moving the Library" - new approach to health information: examples of best practise
HELLE MORTENSEN (Lyngby-Taarbaek Public Libraries, Lyngby-Taarbaek, Denmark) -
Importancia de la capacitación de los bibliotecarios para el cumplimiento de sus funciones: experiencia en el tema SIDA (AIDS)
ILEANA ARMENTEROS VERA (Departamento de Docencia del Centro nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas - Infomed, Havana, Cuba) -
Successful initiatives and partnerships by a public library to promote health information
LOIDA GARCIA-FEBO (Queens Library, New York, NY, USA) -
Library access for the disabled in Romania
IOANA ROBU and SALLY WOOD-LAMONT (Cluj Medical University Library, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) -
The impact of culture on communities in Kenya
ESTHER K. OBACHI (University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya) and GRACE NYAMONGO (Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya)
Last update: 20 July 2011