1. ADOPTING THE NEW INFORMATION MODEL: CHALLENGES AND ADVANCES II Regional Coordination Meeting of the Virtual Health Library Pan American Health Organization April 23, 2001. La Habana, CUBA

5. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – VHL ERNESTA GREENIDGE MEDICAL SCIENCES LIBRARY,UWI NATIONAL COORDINATING CENTRE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

6. Trinidad and Tobago VHL BIREME CHALLENGE Setting up the VHL 1.Agreement among institutions to adopt the model

7. Trinidad and Tobago VHL BIREME CHALLENGE Setting up the VHL 2.Advisory Committee members: producers, intermediaries and users, acts as an Editorial Board, represents, orients, define priorities, distribute responsibilities, raise resources etc.

8. Trinidad and Tobago VHL BIREME CHALLENGE Setting up the VHL 3.Plan for setting up the VHL specific projects based on the VHL architecture training programs – all actors connectivity marketing

9. Trinidad and Tobago VHL September, 2000 Stakeholders meeting Technical meeting Facilitator – Director BIREME

10. Trinidad and Tobago VHL STAKEHOLDERS Ministry of Health Medical / Health Libraries Regional Health Authorities NIHERST National Library and Information Service Faculty of Medical Sciences (UWI) CAREC PAHO

11. Trinidad and Tobago VHL Advisory Committee Interim Committee – T&T VHL National Library and Information Service UWI Medical Sciences Library Pan American Heath Organization

12. T&T Ministry of Health Site

13. NALIS – Medical Library Site

14. Caribbean Epidemiology Centre

15. Caribbean College of Family Practitioners

16. UWI Medical Sciences Library Site

17. Trinidad and Tobago VHL DEVELOPMENT Interim Committee: names and logos of organizations News :Possible links to MOH site Directories: Expand and link – index using the HIL TTMED database: expand and distribute using WXIS

18. Trinidad and Tobago VHL DEVELOPMENT Databases: input at local and regional level Fulltext - approaches to publishers Identification of Researchers - information support Marketing

19. Trinidad and Tobago VHL CHALLENGES CAPACITY BUILDING -National -Contributing Centres ONGOING TRAINING VIABLE AND SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS

20. Trinidad and Tobago VHL RESPONSES ACTION PLAN INFORMATION DISSEMINATION COMMUNICATIONS PLAN POLICY DEVELOPMENT STAFF AND USER TRAINING

21. Trinidad and Tobago VHL ADVANCES IMMINENT CONVENING OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE EXPRESSIONS OF POLITICAL WILL National Library Service Ministry of Health ACCESS TO OTHER REGIONAL INITIATIVES PAHO – CAREC - UWIDEC

22. Trinidad and Tobago VHL http://brmh.bireme.br/bvs/tt http://healthsectorreform.gov.tt

23. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – VHL ADOPTING THE NEW INFORMATION MODEL: CHALLENGES AND ADVANCES II Regional Coordination Meeting of the Virtual Health Library Pan American Health Organization April 23, 2001. La Habana, CUBA THANK YOU