Helping Health Workers Respond to Relief Efforts in Haiti

The HRH Global Resource Center (GRC), CapacityPlus’s digital library of human resources for health information, recently contributed to the Haiti Relief Toolkit produced by Knowledge for Health, a USAID-supported project. The toolkit provides technical and practical information to help health workers respond to the relief efforts.

Rebecca Rhodes, IntraHealth's knowledge systems technical advisor, set up dynamic searches for materials in French, resources related to postdisaster human resources for health, and Haiti-specific documents. These tailored search strings of GRC materials were integrated with the toolkit’s resource library and are now incorporated as embedded links in the toolkit.

The GRC collection is constantly updated and expanded, so with the tailored GRC search links, the Haiti Relief Toolkit will provide access to all the latest materials with no need to update the resource listings. The toolkit will also help to bring users in need of additional information to the GRC, where they can receive assistance in finding resources through the GRC’s librarian support service.

Supported by the IntraHealth-led CapacityPlus project, the GRC has over 2,400 resources and serves 40,000 visitors from over 170 countries each month.