Introducing Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN ™ ) RHIN Symposium November 17 &18, 2008 National Library of Medicine Carrie Gould-Kabler Center for Public Service Communications
RHIN ™ Objectives Identify and make accessible culturally and linguistically appropriate health and medical information –In RHIN™ database –At trusted partner locations (National Library of Medicine, EthnoMed and Healthy Roads Media) Enable and encourage a “culture of information sharing and communications” among health providers who specialize in refugee health
RHIN Homepage
News, Current Eventsand Featured Resources If you have a refugee health news item, current event, or item for featured resources to be considered for RHIN please it to
New Populations
RHIN Website Features Organized to provide ease of use –FIND: Browse or search the RHIN database which contains multilingual health information as documents, videos and audio files –SHARE: Assist and collaborate with others by sharing or recommending new resources –LEARN: Find out more about refugees, asylees
Find Resources
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Share Resources RHIN cultivates collaboration and invites participation in creating a valuable resource of refugee health information RHIN encourages users to submit documents, audio, video, or other files for possible use on RHIN
Share Resources
RHIN Database Development Metadata and “document properties” –Document Title –Abstract –Language(s) Available –Document Category –Document Producer/Author –Keywords –Development and Review Methodology –Copyright restrictions
Properties Page
Future Developments My RHIN Upload bi-lingual materials
Contact RHIN Please contact Carrie Gould-Kabler at if you have any questions or comments.