This grant will allow the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) to create, host and maintain a web-based resource on national health research in low- and middle-income countries in partnership with institutions in the South.
A health information system is made up of discreet and modular building blocks that need to interoperate with one another. The health informatics researcher is the architect responsible for ensuring that they do so.
In November 2001, IDRC supported the establishment of a research network on the theme of equal access to health services in West Africa under project 101160.