Seven Informatics and Nord University (Norway) hosted a one-week workshop on curriculum development for Health Informatics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. The workshop was attended by faculty from five universities in Ukraine (National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Kyiv Aviation Institute, Mariupol State University, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, and Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design) and two in Nigeria (Achievers University, Owo and the University of Ibadan). Other participants included the Rivne Vocational College of IT, 100% Life Rivne, the Rivne Regional Health Administration, the Rivne Regional Clinical Hospital, Line Systems (Denmark), the University of Strathclyde (Scotland), the University of Oxford, Hubro Research (Czechia), Evolved Binary, the African Digital Health Research Institute, and VortexaHealth Solutions (Nigeria).
The objectives of the workshop were to review a base curriculum for Applied Health Informatics and start the process of creating a core curriculum for teaching Health Informatics at masters level in Ukraine and Nigeria. The Applied Health Informatics curriculum was originally used to teach the masters program at Fordham University in New York from 2022 to 2025. It is now being adapted to create the core Health Informatics curriculum which is being made openly available under a Creative Commons license
Each participating university started the workshop by presenting the background, capabilities and ambitions of their institution; presentations on the final day summarised the plans that each had developed for teaching masters programs and intensive workshop courses. Work will now continue to develop and gain accreditation for the core curriculum, and to develop the plans for each participating university. Further workshops are planned each September and March to provide ongoing review of the curriculum and to support the universities as they roll out their own plans for teaching Health Informatics.
