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Has been working as Director, Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing at the World Health Organization Headquarters (WHO/HQ) in Geneva since September 2008. Prior to that he held the posts of Information Scientist, Regional Advisor for Health Information Management and Telecommunication and Coordinator for Knowledge Management and Sharing for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region until August 2008. He is from Jordan, married and holds a PhD in Information Sciences since 1986.
Dr Al-Shorbaji's portfolio covers WHO publishing activities and programmes, library and knowledge networks, eHealth, and WHO Collaborating Centres.
He is a member of a number national and international professional societies and associations specialised in information management and health informatics. He has authored over 80 research papers and articles presented in various conferences and published in professional journals.
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Knowledge Networks in Support of Global Health
The General Programme of Work 2006-2015 of the World Health Organization (WHO) WHO aligned itself with the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015,It identified four gaps the hindering this achievement:
• gaps in social justice;
• gaps in responsibility;
• gaps in implementation; and
• gaps in knowledge
One of the six core function of WHO is "Shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge".
The Knowledge Management strategy of WHO 2010-15 has four strategic objectives. One of these is to "Facilitate global collaborations and knowledge networks to make WHO's work more efficient".
Knowledge Networks is the term given to different types of team or social networks and communities that are recognized, from a KM perspective, to add significant value to the creation, dissemination and application of better knowledge at a much faster rate. http://www.knowledge-management-online.com/KnowledgeNetworks.html
Knowledge networks serve to achieve equitable access to health information and achieving universal access through networking and collaboration. Access to knowledge, knowledge utilization and translation of knowledge to policy and action contribute to achieving the MDGs,
Knowledge networks aim to bridge the knowledge gaps in public/global health. Resolving many of the global health problems requires the full collaboration and cooperation among nationals and professionals. Global networking brings benefits by:
1) encouraging and facilitating information exchange;
2) promoting standards, ethics, values, protocols, etc;
3) improving quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation;
4) ensuring fast, secure and effective mechanisms for communication among the members;
5) fostering the establishment of cooperative arrangements aimed at;
6) promoting the safety, adequacy, quality and appropriate use of products, services, procedures, etc;
7) sharing and fostering best practices;
8) sharing information resources, directories, opportunities;
9) sharing experience (failure and success stories).
Examples of global collaborative networks include WHO Collaborating Centres, the Global Health Library, the Epidemiology Supercourse, the Knowledge Gateway, the Global NCDNet and many others.
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