Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Date: 1-3 November, 2022

Time: 9 am-4:30pm

What will happen during the workshop

The African health librarians’ workshop is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. It is organized by the Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa) and facilitated by members of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa and Network of African Medical Librarians (AHILA/NAML), who provide quality and efficient library and information services to DS-I African consortium members, students and researchers/faculty in various institutions in Africa. The workshop will cover four broad areas namely 1) Data science, 2) Evidence Synthesis for Librarians, 3) Research Dissemination and Visibility and 4) Better Evidence for Training and Providers Program – UpToDate and MSD Manuals.

Overall Objective of the workshop

The overall objective of the workshop is to develop and enhance the knowledge and skills of emerging African health sciences librarians to provide research support to DS-I Africa consortium members, students, faculty, scientists and health care providers in academic/health institutions in Africa.

Workshop organizer(s): Grace Ajuwon, Richard Ssenono, Alison Kinengyere, Haruna, Hussein, Christine Kanyengo, Dan Gerendasy