Research4Life posted on http://www.research4life.org/research4lifeinasp-advocacy-competition-elsevier-connect/:
To highlight the critical role that doctors, researchers, librarians
and policymakers play in advocating their leaders to support research in
their institutions and countries, Research4Life joined with INASP to
launch an advocacy competition. The aim of the contest is to find case
studies that show how users have overcome hurdles to boost critical
leadership support for the information and infrastructural resources
needed to improve evidence based health care, agriculture and
environmental policies as well as basic research in their countries.
A good example of advocacy leadership is the story of Grace Ajuwon, one of the first librarians to be trained to use Hinari,
Research4Life’s flagship biomedical database. Over a decade ago, Grace,
a senior librarian at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, used that
training to jumpstart her own research into health information. A year
later, in 2003, she published a peer-reviewed paper in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making,
concluding that clinical and nursing students were neglecting
electronic resources. Grace successfully advocated for the inclusion of
computer education in medical and nursing curricula, ensuring that
computer laboratories were installed and went on train thousands of
medical and research staff across her own and other African institutions
in effectively using scientific resource.
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