title: Getting involved in international development activities: UK initiatives and hidden benefits.
abstract: Jackie Cheeseborough and Shane Godbolt describe the role that UK health information professionals have in global health and in supporting colleagues from developing countries to continue to develop as a provision. They give an overview of a range of organisations working to improve access to health information in developing countries and in particular Sub-Saharan Africa including Book Aid International, HIFA, INASP, ITOCA, Phi, TALC, THET and Research4Life. Even in a recession, many UK health librarians are choosing to get involved in international development activities in low-resource countries by volunteering, and discovering hidden benefits for their own organisations, and their own continuing professional development.
authors: mjcheeseborough@greenbee.net.
authors: Jackie
authors: J
authors: Cheeseborough
authors: Shane
authors: S
authors: Godbolt
authors: Maria J
authors: MJ
authors: Grant
mesh_terms: D038622:Internationality; D007998:Library Science / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Africa, East; Africa, South; Africa, West; continuing professional development; international development