Public Health Informatics 2008 (PHI2008)

PHI2008 will be held September 18-19, 2008 in Seattle, WA. This meeting builds
on the success of the 1st international PHI conference in September last year
at which participants agreed to move forward with organizing the Global
Partners in Public Health Informatics -- a partnership of individuals,
organizations and research centers dedicated to defining and developing a
framework for addressing strategic public health information issues and
requirements to drive successful global population health interventions.
Through plenary sessions, panel and break-out discussions, and poster sessions
PHI2008 will cover a wide scope of global public health informatics topics and
will showcase state-of-the-art public health informatics research, development,
and applications, with an emphasis on sustainable development strategies and
sharing information technologies, data and knowledge. PHI2008 invitees and
speakers, drawn from a variety of global health settings, organizations, and
institutions, will cover topics such as:
* E-health records for improved public health practice
* Situational awareness and surveillance
* Scalable information and communications technology approaches for
improving population health
* Decision support and knowledge management
* Information policy and human capacity building

PHI2008 is open to practitioners, academics, scientists, managers, students,
and decision makers from the various disciplines, industries, governmental
institutions, international and intergovernmental organizations, agencies and
networks that are concerned with improving the public's health on the local,
national and global levels through the application of information and
communications technologies.

More details can be found in the attached flyer. For more information on the
program and to register: www.gpphi.org/conferences

MAHLAP Officers 2008

To all the MAHLAP Members and all Library Organizations. Here are your new MAHLAP Officers for 2008:

President: Santos, Gilbert D.
Vice-President: Prosperoso, Alma Mila D.
Secretary: Landicho, Jeniffer M.
Treasurer: Dorado, Maria Lutgarda M.
Auditor: Bendo, Mark Gil A.
P.R.O.: Yap, Joseph M.
Board Members: Castro, Maria Nimfa V.
Estrada, Evangeline Q.
Lopez, Rosario F.
Ex-Officio: Canceran, Gina G.

Congratulations! It is the officers duty to serve the members and the whole community.

20 Year's of MAHLAP and counting

First of all, let me congratulate MAHLAP or the Medical and Health Librarian's Association of the Philippines for celebrating its 20th year anniversary.

MAHLAP was born from a seminar-workshop on ""Current Management Trends for Health Care Libraries," Cebu, 3-7 November 1986. This seminar was sponsored by the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) under DOST and the British Council (BC). The participants from the said seminar suggested to have a national group for medical and health librarians. In 1988, it was official and registered as a non-stock non-profit organization.

This year marks the 20th year of MAHLAP's anniversary and everybody is encouraged to participate in its annual conference.

Theme: “The Expanding Knowledgebase Competencies of Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians”

When: February 28-29, 2008

Where: Hotel Kimberly, Pedro Gil street, Manila, Philippines http://www.hotelkimberly.com/

Fee: Php 3,500 live-in and Php 2,500 live-out

They are also in need of sponsorships. For more information, please contact: Ms. Gina Canceran at 02-526-5851 or email her at gina@mail.upm.edu.ph or ginacanceran@yahoo.com.