English Caribbean

The Network

MEDCARIB - Health Sciences Literature of the English Caribbean

Regional Coordinator of MedCarib Network: Victoria Cruickshank-Taylor

Communications Officer

Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)

Trinidad and Tobago

 

MEDCARIB Members
Cooperating Centers  

Caribbean VHL Instances

VHL Belize - Belize National Library Service and Information System

 

VHL Guyana - University of Guyana Library and the Ministry of Health

 

VHL Puerto Rico - Biblioteca Conrado F. Asenjo, Recinto de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad de Puerto Rico

The MEDCARIB in Action

Acuril 2022

ACURIL 2022: Change Management and Resilience: Proactive Actions in Libraries, Museums and Archives

 

Pre-conference Event: Virtual Health Libraries Content Area Round Table

26/05 - 2:00 - 3:30 PM (AST)

Register now: https://tinyurl.com/ACURIL

 

 

 

 

 

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Caribbean Virtual Health Library initiative – moving forward

November 9 th , 2021

Objective: Meeting with MedCarib network to discuss Caribbean Virtual Health Library initiative and next steps to implement.

Agenda

 

training-Guyana-VHLGuyana Virtual Health Library Online training Session November 11th -12th 2021

Objective: Training for the Guyana Virtual Health Library. The specific objectives are: • VHL model - components, how to implement, governance • VHL Network - mapping competences, capacity needs, updating library information, about the MedCarib network and English Caribbean VHL • VHL Guyana - strategy to develop the Portal, map content and information sources in Guyana.

Agenda

Acuril_2020

ACURIL 2020 (18-19 Nov) - BIREME presents "VHL: a Caribbean integration effort" as proposal for the development of a VHL Instance for the English Caribbean, as a strategy for integrating efforts and information resources, prioritizing to facilitate the access to scientific and technical information for professionals, researchers, students and decision makers interested in, acting on, or making decisions on health area in the Caribbean region.

Acuril_2019ACURIL 2019 (June) - Virtual workshop “New Cataloguing Data Entry Competencies for VHL in the Caribbean". Márcia Y. Barretto, Coordinator of Information Technology Infrastructure of the Administrative Management (ITI/GA) of BIREME, organized the content and virtually held the workshop that took place on June 2nd. Ms. Barreto presented the FI-Admin tool for the entry of new records for databases that follow the LILACS Methodology. Fourteen representatives of the four languages of the Caribbean (Spanish, English, French, and Dutch) participated in the workshop, 11 of them in person. Members of the MedCarib Network were also among the participants.

Products & Services

MEDCARIB - is a bibliographic database of health science information in the Caribbean English-speaking countries. The database includes documents such as books, book chapters, theses, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, and grey literature. 

CARPHA Evidence Portal - is a continuously updated repository of research, syntheses and Caribbean policy-relevant documents. The Portal includes clinical, population health and health systems research but excludes basic/biomedical research. The types of syntheses included are evidence briefs for policy, rapid syntheses, overviews of systematic reviews, systematic reviews and economic evaluations. The policy relevant documents originate from the CARPHA, CARPHA Member States and the World Health Organization. The EvIDeNCe portal also includes a guided overview of sources of Caribbean data, pre-appraised research evidence and other types of information, tools, resources and training material to support evidence-informed decision-making.

Belize Database - National literature from Belize on health sciences

Guyana Library Catalog – National literature from Guyana on health sciences