News

We have invited the distinguished IS researchers Chris Westrup, Niall Hayes and Geoff Walsham to theorize over three empirical HISP cases on scaling. The workshop will discuss these cases and the opportunities and challenges to theorizing over them.

With new people joining the MobiHealth project, we are arranging a DHIS mobile workshop in Oslo with a primary focus on strengthening the core mobile development team.

The University of Dar es Salaam and University of Oslo are hosting an East African regional DHIS 2 implementers workshop in Dar es Salaam on June 20-30, 2011. Participants from more than 10 countries will go through an intensive and practical training program on how to set up, maintain, and make best use of the DHIS 2 software.

DHIS 2 implementers workshop in Oslo Feb 7-13, 2011.

A new HISP project focussing on mobile phone solutions has been approved by the Norwegian Research Council.

Nice overview on health information from global health agencies.

Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, and the Department of Informatics has signed an agreement formalizing the longterm cooperation within the Hisp network.

To help setup DHIS2 on a national level, Jørn Braa and Edem Kossi recently visited Gambia. Weeks later, they have setup district instances of the application themselves and training has started.

The October issue of the HMN newsletter spotlights Sierra Leone and the nationwide DHIS implementation.

Sundeep Sahay is interviewed by forskning.no (norwegian)...