REPORT OCTOBER 2016

2. What will the Phi –UoW partnership do differently from
what Phi was doing originally? Phi is being hosted by the new
Center for Global Health at the University of Winchester. This
will enable an old university broaden its international
perspective while enabling Phi to have a more stable host.
3. What is the link to Commonwealth fellowships?
Commonwealth Fellowship programme is associated with
Medicine in the Cloud to help raise their research profile.
4. Is there a new model different from the way the old Phi was
working with AHILA country chapters? Phi will maintain
both its name and old partnerships built over its 25 years of
existence. The only difference is that now it will be operating as
a programme under the University of Winchester for purposes
of sustainability.
5. Since AHILA’s strength is within the Country Chapters, Phi
should consider working with and strengthening Country
Chapters and encouraging the Associates to be members of
AHILA. In addition there is need for more members to join HIFA
a platform for those working with or interested in health
information globally.
6. The Associate scheme will be a follow up on the database of
those trained by Phi or have been part of its fellowship
programme.
Presenter 2: Anne Seymour and Jaime Blank
Building capacity: Information skills across the research
lifecycle
This paper described a training programme designed to establish
Global Health outreach through building capacity of emerging
researchers within the John Hopkins network. This programme
had just been piloted within Uganda between Welch Medical
Library (US), Albert Cook Library and Infectious Diseases Institute
Library in Uganda.
Through this programme the team planned to equip researchers
with skills in maximizing value of their individual research profiles,
improving their literature search skills, applying best practices to
locate evidence for Systematic Reviews, manage their literature
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