Knowledge management and health

Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS)

What is Knowledge Management?

Knowledge management has many definitions but WHO uses the term to describe how the secretariat uses technology to enable people to create, capture, store, retrieve, use and share knowledge.

Vision

The vision of WHO knowledge management is a world with better and more equitable health outcomes.

Mission

Our mission is to improve the understanding and application of knowledge management in the pursuit of WHO's mandate.

Strategic directions

  • Improve the quality of WHO's work through improved access to information.
  • Facilitate global collaborations and knowledge networks to make WHO's work more efficient.
  • Develop WHO's capacity as a multilingual publisher of high-quality publications.
  • Promote the use of information and communication technologies to improve health services and systems.

Structure

Selected activities

Blue Trunk Library Project

The Blue Trunk libraries project makes it possible to establish a network to disseminate medical and health information reaches out beyond academic and university circles.

HINARI

Over 3000 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries.

Global Health Library

Access to reliable health information for those who need it

Mobile health (mHealth)

Mobile Health (mHealth) is an area of electronic health (eHealth) and it is the provision of health services and information via mobile technologies such as mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).

Expert advisory panels

Expert advisory panels consist of experts from whom the Organization may obtain technical guidance and support within a particular subject.

Guidelines Review Committee

The Guidelines Review Committee was established to ensure that WHO guidelines are of a high methodological quality and are developed through a transparent, evidence-based decision-making process.

Call for proposals

INFORMATION PRODUCTS

WHO Press

World Health Report

WHO Bulletin