Eighteen international health organizations, led by mPowering Frontline Health Workers and IntraHealth International, are coming together to share information related to the Ebola crisis response through four webinar discussions and via the new online Ebola Resource Center.

The Ebola Resource Center provides materials for creating country-level mobile training efforts and building connections between groups involved in the response to Ebola. These will be tied to each webinar session. The Ebola Resource Center offers SMS text and interactive voice response messages, training content, guidance documents, and other information. We welcome submissions of relevant resources that can support frontline health workers who are responding to Ebola.

The Ebola crisis has affected some of the most vulnerable countries in the world, and frontline health workers are struggling to keep pace with the outbreak. Health workers need clear, simple, reliable information on how to protect themselves, detect the disease, and respond to the crisis.

Access the Ebola Resource Center here: www.hrhebolaresources.org/

The site also serves as an online community forum where anyone can seek and find information about Ebola and engage with others in response to Ebola’s growing threats to health. Programs can share information about their work and donors can quickly identify ways to support their efforts.

The webinar series—Training Health Workers for Ebola: Protection, Detection, and Response—launched on October 21 with 138 participants and continues on October 23, 28, and 30. All webinars air at 10:00 am EDT. The webinars are free to join and we welcome participation from diverse audiences, including ministries of health, health workers, community leaders, program implementers (in-country and international), policy-makers, and others.

Access the webinars and registration details here: http://techchange.org/live-events/training-health-workers-for-ebola/

All webinars will be available for viewing on the Ebola Resource Center after the air dates.  

In addition, a linked four-week facilitated online discussion is now taking place in the Health Information for All Forum.

Read more about how IntraHealth is helping health workers respond to Ebola.