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- 31 December 2022
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IFLA Units+Strategy: Health and Biosciences Section Engages and Energises the Healthcare Library Sector
In the spirit of partnership, this month IFLA features the IFLA Health and Biosciences (HBS) Section and their partner the IFLA Evidence for Global Disaster and Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group in the Units + Strategy recognition series, for their collaborative efforts not only with each other, but with several external medical and health-related information organisations. Read about what they’ve been doing and what they’ve got planned for 2022-2023. Read More
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- 20 October 2022
HBS and E4GDH partner as Evidence Ambassadors for Evidence-based Healthcare Day 2022
Today, 20 October 2022 is World Evidence-based Healthcare Day (EBHC). Occurring during Health Literacy Month, EBHC is an opportunity to highlight the ways that evidence-based health literacy can support global healthcare efforts. Check out the IFLA Health and Bioscience (HBS) Section and Evidence for Global and Disaster Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group Ambassador vlogs: Read More
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- 20 October 2022
Evidence for all in times of health emergency: IFLA supports Cochrane Call for Action
The COVID-19 pandemic underlined the importance of timely and comprehensive health information, but also the difficulties faced by many in accessing it. Action is needed to ensure that everyone benefits from the infrastructure needed to achieve this. This goal lies at the heart of the Cochrane Call to Action on supporting evidence responses to global health emergencies. Read More
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- 23 May 2022
IFLA HBS webinar: Preparing an Information Workforce to Address Health Misinformation
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- 31 January 2022
Looking Ahead on Health
The Pandemic has clearly focused minds on health, and how essential it is that we do not take it for granted. The right to health – and with it, the right to health information – have rapidly moved up the political agenda. Find out about the plans of our Health and Biosciences Section (HBS) and Evidence for Global and Disaster Health Special Interest Group (E4GDH), and in particular about the 2022 International Congress of Medical Librarianship. Read More
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- 12 January 2022
Health information by right: making the case for ensuring access to reliable information
In the early months of 2020, WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus underlined that in addition to fighting a pandemic, the world also needed to reckon with an 'infodemic'. As argued by the speakers at the WLIC 2021 session on Access to health information as a human right: A global call to action and practical steps, there is an urgent need for action to ensure that every person should have access to reliable health information and should be protected from misinformation. Read More
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- 12 January 2022
Call for Papers: IFLA Journal special issue on Health Information transforming lives
IFLA Journal and IFLA’s Health & Biosciences Section are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue focused on Health Information which will highlight the transforming effect of health libraries in underserved communities. Peer review submission deadline: 30 November 2018 Read More
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- 15 October 2018
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