Environmental Scan: Educating the Health Informatics Workforce in the Global South

This paper is part of the Making the eHealth Connection conference series. There are many examples of how information and communication technologies can be used to strengthen health care, but critical to such use is a workforce of people who know how to select, implement, use and support appropriate technologies. This paper reviews the scope of the challenge, describes a model program and the features that make it effective, and provides other examples of programs that are working. [adapted from introduction]