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Global Partnership Program
Information on this page reflects history of activity leading up to the establishment of
GHIP in Spring 2010.
In its rapid spread across the southern hemisphere, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has directed global attention to the shortcomings in the health care delivery systems of low resource countries unprepared to bear this extraordinary health burden. A major shortcoming is the limited availability of reliable clinical data for diagnosis, treatment, health care management, and public health. The epidemiological transition taking place in these countries is less visible, as chronic diseases gain ground and expand the need for clinical consultation, evaluation and testing, and more effective management of scarce resources. Faced with resource constraints along with low salaries and poor career prospects, health care professionals at all levels have been moving to better paid positions overseas, or across the border, compounding the crisis with severe shortages of trained personnel.
AMIA's Global Partnership Program (GPP) is being developed to address shortcomings in the HICT systems of low resource countries by fostering the capacity of local institutions to widely introduce EHR systems and to sustain their continued use. Through the GPP, AMIA, in collaboration with other partners, will lead a team of experts to develop scalable approaches to eHealth education and help address the growing need for a global informatics workforce and scholarly network. The project aims to educate and train a new generation of leaders by linking them and their institutions to partner institutions affiliated with AMIA and others in the network. We anticipate that there will also be valuable “lessons learned” in training and education for capacity building and managing high-quality, low-cost health care low resource countries.
This program is supported by a grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Read the Press Release | AMIA Receives Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Develop a Global Biomedical and Health Informatics Fellowship Program
Resources and Links of Interest:
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Fogarty International Center, NIH
Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC)
International Development Research Centre
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
National Library of Medicine, NIH
The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
