Lists, conferences etc. related to HELINA-L	28 June 1999 Mikko Korpela
	Electronic mailing list on Health Informatics in Africa

Contents: Organizations | Mailing lists and web pages | Journals | Conferences

The HELINA-L mailing list and the HELINA conferences are strictly focused on informatics and healthcare and Africa. For instance, messages dealing with general health issues in Africa are not passed on to the HELINA-L if they don't have something to do with informatics also. Likewise, messages dealing with the use of informatics in Africa are not passed on if they do not deal with health care also.

The following web pages, organizations, e-mail lists, journals and conferences deal with topics which are close to HELINA-L and the HELINA conferences, but do not fully overlap.

Organizations

• International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IMIA Newsletter in electronic format:
  Contact Prof. Jan van Bemmel, President.

• IMIA Working Group 9 (WG-9) on Health Informatics for Development:
  Contact Dr. Nora Oliveri, Chairperson.

• World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO):
  Contact regafro@whoafr.org.

• Working Group 10 of the European Federation of Medical Informatics Associations (EFMI WG-10) on Health, Informatics and Development:
  Contact Dr. Marcelo Sosa, Chairperson.

• SatelLife/HealthNet (operates also several mailing lists etc. on health and other issues):
  Contact hnet@usa.healthnet.org.

• Midjan Group: A European Association promoting telemedicine in developing countries:
  Contact Guy Rossignol, Chairman, David Wright, Secretary.

• Working Group 9.4 (WG 9.4) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) on the Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries:
  Contact Dr. Shirin Madon, Secretary.

• British Computer Society's Health Informatics Specialist Group:
  Contact Judy Hayes.
  Developing Countries Specialist Group.

Mailing lists and web pages

• AFRO-NETS mailing list and web site on African Networks for Health Research & Development by HealthNet/SatelLife:
  To subscribe, send "subscribe AFRO-NETS" to majordomo@usa.healthnet.org

• AFRIK-IT mailing list by African Network of IT Experts and Professionals:
  To subscribe, send "subscribe AFRIK-IT" to listserv@hea.ie

• AHILA-Net mailing list for Health Information and Libraries in Africa:
  Contact Irene Bertrand.

• ACACIA-L mailing list on Information and Communication Technologies and Development in Africa by the ACACIA Initiative of the Canadian International Development Research Centre:
  To subscribe, send "subscribe ACACIA-L your_real_name" to lyris@lyris.idrc.ca

• Web page of the African Information Society Initiative AISI of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA):
  Contact Dr. Nancy J. Hafkin.
  

• The Bellanet International Secretariat hosts several mailing lists on IT and Development issues.

• Africa Online's Health Information pages and Computing pages.

• The African Studies WWW by theUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA.

• Web page for Index on Africa: A comprehensive guide to the continent on the Net, by the Norwegian Council for Africa.

• CANCHID mailing list by Canadian Network on Health in International Development:
  To subscribe, send "subscribe CANCHID" to listserv@yorku.ca

• INFODEV-L mailing list by the Information for Development Program of the World Bank:
  To subscribe, send "subscribe INFODEV-L" to listproc@internet.idrc.ca

• HEALTH-GIS mailing list on Geographic Information Systems in Health:
  To subscribe, send "subscribe HEALTH-GIS" to majordomo@who.ch

• AHEALTH-L mailing list for Telecommunications in Health and Health Care by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO):
  To subscribe, send "subscribe AHEALTH-L" to listserv@bitnis.nlm.nih.gov

• European Health Telematics Observatory (EHTO).

• ELDIS: a Gateway to Information Sources on Development and the Environment, including a What's New page, by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK.

Journals

• African Journals Online: African-published scholarly journals by means of the Internet. Contact inasp@gn.apc.org

• Information Technology for Development: Contact jitd@konark.ncst.ernet.in

• African Technology Forum

• Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)

• The Journal of Informatics in Primary Care

• Information Technology in Nursing

Conferences

• Remember HELINA'99!

• IFIP WG 9.4 Conference 2000 on Information Flows, Local Improvisations and Work Practices, 24-26 May 2000, Cape Town, South Africa. IFIP WG 9.4 is about Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries.
  Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 1999.

• MEDINFO'2001 conference, September 2001.

• Annual Healthcare Computing conferences in UK.

• AMIA Annual Symposium 1999, 6-10 November 1999, Washington, DC, USA.

• CARI'98 (4e Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique / 4th African Conference on Research in Computer Science), 12-15 October 1998, Dakar, Senegal:
  Contact cari98@ucad.sn, prepare for CARI'2000.