1. Introducing Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN ™ ) RHIN Symposium November 17 &18, 2008 National Library of Medicine Carrie Gould-Kabler Center for Public Service Communications

2. 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

3. RHIN Homepage

4. 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 email it to cgouldkabler@cpsc.com

5. New Populations

7. 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

8. Find Resources

13. Split Screen

15. 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

16. Share Resources

18. 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

19. Properties Page

21. Future Developments My RHIN Upload bi-lingual materials

22. Contact RHIN Please contact Carrie Gould-Kabler at cgouldkabler@cpsc.comcgouldkabler@cpsc.com if you have any questions or comments.