Our mission here at K4Health is to increase the use and dissemination of evidence-based, accurate and up-to-date information to improve health service delivery and health outcomes worldwide. Using the K4Health platform, we are able to facilitate how this information is captured, synthesized, shared, adapted, and used.

Through virtual collaboration, we are able to monitor and evaluate K4Health’s products and services to ensure that they meet the needs of key audiences, including policy makers, program managers, and health service providers working in international public health settings.

Our current knowledge management activities include:

• Collectively developing “toolkits” of up-to-date and evidence-based resources that make information easy to find and easy to use;
• Adapting existing toolkit knowledge resources for local and regional use;
• Developing new toolkit resources—articles, guides, curricula, fact sheets, job aids, and eLearning courses;
• Encouraging feedback about toolkit resources through discussion boards;
• Sponsoring global, regional, and country-level forums;
• Providing free online and offline eLearning courses on a variety of health topics; and
• Supporting virtual networks among health care professionals, communities of practice, and technical working groups.

We are also conducting information needs assessments in multiple countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. By working with local partners, we are able to build local capacity through technical assistance while creating a sense of ownership to ensure the sustainability of country programs. Want to learn more? Visit K4Health’s needs assessments to learn about how we address unique needs of various countries and uncover existing gaps in health information to provide insight and direction for related programs.

We also invite you to join our efforts to ensure that health service professionals are well informed and use the most accurate and up-to-date information for their clients. You can participate in a number of ways: suggest new topics for toolkits and eLearning courses, or join the discussion on our blog. We really do want to hear from you!

The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Global Health funds the K4Health project, which is implemented by The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International (FHI), and Management Sciences for Health (MSH).