Working Together

For Health Knowledge Exchange 

 

Are you working with countries engaged in planning and implementing programmes to improve health?

 

Are you concerned about how we can improve the quality of health care through effective professional development in nursing and midwifery?

 

GANM offers you the opportunity to join Communities of Practice dedicated to:

 

Sharing

  • knowledge, expertise and practical experience that build the capacity of nurses and midwives to improve health

Accessing

  • coherent information on what works and what doesn't
  • discussions with experts and individuals from different countries
  • clear definitions of terminology, concepts and policy directives
  • evidence-based tools, materials and strategies

Creating

  • opportunities to share new knowledge, experience and lessons learned with local and international colleagues
  • forums to ask questions, discuss issues, share opinions and work together to use our collective knowledge and experience to improve and scale up effective practices

 

 

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News! News! News!

**Summer 2008 "Number of Health Workers Being Produced Insufficient"

**Summer 2008 "Input NEEDED from Nurses, Midwives, Birth Attendants, Community Health Workers, and others"

**Summer 2008 "WHO restores permanent international presence in Iraq"

**Summer 2008 "WHO monitoring Georgia insecurity, concerned about health conditions for civilians "

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 New Sub-Communities of Practice Begin

Spanish Language - sub-Community of Practice has launched from within the GANM:

Please join your colleagues from around the globe in these forming communities as we dialog and share our knowledge and experience.

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Join your colleagues around the globe by signing up now!

 

This is your opportunity to share your views, experience, expertise, lessons learned on issues that affect you and your work.

 

 

Flyer for GANM Launch

 

 

We have established virtual workspaces that facilitate sharing and exchanging knowledge, expertise, experience, materials, tools, success stories and lessons learned within and between countries. We are using a virtual system (IBP/ECS Knowledge Gateway) supported by the partners of the Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative in Reproductive Health.

 

The Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery Communities of Practice (GANM) offers you a resource library of published materials, announcements, a calendar of events, and periodic discussions on topics of interest.

 

 

Partners

* World Health Organization (WHO): Office of Nursing and Midwifery, Department Human Resources for Health, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, Implementing Best Practices Initiative, Department of KM, Knowledge Communities and Strategy;  

WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery at: The Johns Hopkins Uni. School of Nursing; Uni. of California, San Francisco, Uni. of Michigan, Columbia Uni.; New York University; Glasgow Caledonian Uni.; and 

The Catholic Medical Missions Board, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs, INFO Project (JHU/CCP/INFO), and the Health Communication Partnership (JHU/HCP)

 

© 2008 Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery Communities of Practice (GANM)