Developing capacity in health informatics in a resource poor setting: lessons from Peru.
The public sectors of developing countries require strengthened capacity in health informatics. In Peru, where formal university graduate degrees in biomedical and health informatics were lacking until recently, the AMAUTA Global Informatics Research and Training Program has provided research and training for health professionals in the region since 1999. The Fogarty International Center supports the program as a collaborative partnership between Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru and the University of Washington in the United States of America. The program aims to train core professionals in health informatics and to strengthen the health information resource capabilities and accessibility in Peru. The program has achieved considerable success in the development and institutionalization of informatics research and training programs in Peru. Projects supported by this program are leading to the development of sustainable training opportunities for informatics and eight of ten Peruvian fellows trained at the University of Washington are now developing informatics programs and an information infrastructure in Peru. In 2007, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia started offering the first graduate diploma program in biomedical informatics in Peru.
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. akimball@u.washington.edu
Ann Marie
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Kimball
Walter H
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Curioso
Yuzo
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Arima
Sherrilynne
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Fuller
Patricia J
PJ
Garcia
Jose
J
Segovia-Juarez
Jesus M
JM
Castagnetto
Fabiola
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Leon-Velarde
King K
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Holmes