About Us

Medilinks's mission is to help strengthen and improve the delivery of healthcare in Africa.

The Medilinks site is an online source of accurate, relevant, concise medical and health related information for Africa. It is aimed at doctors, healthcare professionals, policy and decision makers in health related fields and all groups of people who have a need or interest to keep informed and up to date about multiple areas of medicine and public health concerning Africa

Medilinks is intended to promote informed debate and exchange of information between Africans by publishing articles about the health problems facing Africa. Each edition will focus on particular health problem facing African countries as a whole. Topics will include HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, Childhood diseases, Maternal and perinatal conditions, as well as environmental and socioeconomic issues.

Doctors and healthcare professionals that have remained in Africa, face the problems of poor availability of critical health and medical information - both for practice and teaching. Medilinks will provide a service as an online source of accurate, relevant, concise medical and health related information about Africa and enable healthcare professionals remain informed in multiple areas of medicine and public health concerning Africa.

Medilinks recognises a large amount of information applicable to developing nations, ranging from public health to specialist medical information is available in electronic form at a number of western institutions. Although these institutions are willing to share this information with their African counterparts there aren't enough resources in place to effectively share this information. Medilinks will act as a central point of medical and health related knowledge about Africa. It will provide a medium for the forecasting of important issues and trends in medicine and health care in Africa as well as improving public health in Africa by elevating the quality of medical care, disease prevention, and research provided by an informed readership.

For decades, African healthcare professionals have been generating valuable research and knowledge in respect of their regional, national and local areas. With the near collapse of a number of African economies, medical professionals have found avenues such as traditional publishing research and subscribing to medical journals, holding conferences or workshops to exchange ideas far too expensive and much of this information has been locked away. Medilinks will promote the exchange of health information in Africa by publishing original, important, well-documented, peer-reviewed articles on a diverse range of health and medical topics.

Medilinks is a resource that is aimed at health care deliverers / professionals, policy and decision makers as well as all people who have a need or are interested in health in Africa. It will provide a forum to foster responsible and balanced debate on controversial issues that affect medicine and health care in Africa. Medilinks will keep readers informed about other aspects of medicine and public health in Africa, including socio-economic, political, ethical, legal, environmental, and cultural issues and work to provide a service that will be available and accessible to all healthcare professionals/ deliverers wherever they maybe.

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The Medilinks Team

John Kiwanuka Ssemakula is a Medical Doctor with a strong interest in information technology and its application to health and public health fields. He is currently working with the Africa America Institute (AAI) in New York on the AAI "HIV/AIDS Initiative". He previously worked on a project on Resettlement and Homelessness in London, where he not only designed databases and tracking methods for homeless people, but also wrote reports and formulated policy dealing with the problems. Dr. Kiwanuka earned his MB.ChB at Makerere University, Kampala and also studied at the University of Ibadan Medical School in Nigeria. He also holds a Masters of Public Health from Dundee Medical School, Scotland where his thesis was on "HIV/AIDS and the Health Care System In Uganda.

email contact: jssemakula@medilinkz.org

Dayo Ogunyemi is a New York based attorney and business consultant. He has had a decade long interest with the internet and its implications for socio-economic development in Africa. In 1991 he founded Naijanet, the first Nigerian internet community. His recent experience has been with business and legal issues surrounding high technology and he has worked with a number of companies in the field. He holds a Juris Doctor and MBA respectively from Columbia University's Law and Business Schools in New York City; and an SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

email contact: dayo@medilinkz.org

Editorial Policy

Medilinks strives to provide a central point for the display of information on healthcare in Africa. Views, policies and recommendations contained within the Medilinks site are not necessarily shared by the Medilinks organisation.

 

 

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