Introduction to HiPHIVE Project

Introduction

The HiPHIVE project is a collaborative partnership between the Hawaii Medical Library and the School of Public Health at the University of Hawaii at Manoa funded by a grant from the National Library of Medicine. The project's primary focus is to provide public health professionals hands-on training in the use of local and web-based health databases, and with a website which can furnish them with timely, convenient access to information resources to help them improve the health of the public they serve.

HiPHIVE's overall goals are:

Conduct a needs assessment
Develop a website
Develop a training program
Offer hands-on training via a portable LAN
Evaluate the use of the website and training

Further information about the project and its background may be found in the NLM Fact Sheet Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals and Making a Powerful Connection: The Health of the Public and the National Information Infrastructure, a report of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Co-Project Directors: John Breinich, Hawaii Medical Library
Sharon Berglund, Hawaii Medical Library; retired.

Sub-Contract: Virginia M. Tanji, School of Public Health, University of Hawaii; now with John A. Burns School of Medicine.

This site made possible by a grant from the National Library of Medicine
For comments or suggestions contact Sharon Berglund, Escondido, California
or Virginia Tanji at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.