title: Building a collaborative global health informatics website.
abstract: Information technology is playing an increasing role in managing the challenges of global public health issues. The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies provides a tremendous avenue to foster connections among diverse health professionals engaged in the development and implementation of informatics-based solutions for global health. Our website, www.globalhealthinformatics.org, leverages an open source platform that employs Web 2.0 functionalities to create such a global community with the objective of fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Connie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Sharib
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nwankwo
authors.forename: Yalini
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Senathirajah
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kukafka
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D038622:Internationality; D020407:Internet; D040442:Public Health Informatics / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014584:User-Computer Interface