How can health informatics training address the needs of health workers in remote areas of South Sudan?

Strategies for reaching health workers in remote areas include: mobile training teams that travel to states and counties to deliver training; online and offline e-learning that can be accessed without travelling to Juba; training of trainers at state level so that training can be delivered locally; and integration of health informatics training into existing in-service training programmes that already reach remote areas. SSHIA is developing a state-level training delivery model that will bring training to all ten states of South Sudan.

Radio-based training has been used successfully in other African countries to reach health workers in remote areas. SSHIA is exploring the possibility of developing health informatics training content for radio broadcast, which could reach health workers in areas with no internet or electricity. This would be a low-tech but high-reach approach to expanding access to health informatics training.