Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, World Health Organization

I have become aware of the new developments regarding the link between Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine and the University College of London. WHO has been partnering with the Centre in the implementation of the Global Health History Seminars. These seminars have been very successful in terms of sharing knowledge and experience about public health issues that many of the new generations of healthcare professionals are not aware of. We see these seminars as a vehicle to bring experience of the experienced professionals to the practitioners and researchers providing them with opportunity to learn from the past and avoid making the same mistakes in dealing with diseases. The seminars have been recently broadcast over the internet which has brought a totally new dimension to the picture. Instead of sharing this experience with few hundreds attending physically the seminar, we now share it with thousands over the internet and in an online mode. I am sharing with you a testimony (we have many many of these) from Africa that came to us during the malaria seminar.

Najeeb Al-Shorbaji
Director of the Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing
WHO, Geneva