Published: March 29, 2016

Web portal puts Members’ humanitarian activity on the map

With great fanfare online as well as on Academy social media channels, the Humanitarian Efforts Committee and the Membership and IT Business Unit have launched a Humanitarian Efforts Map now ready for viewing on our website.


webmapBy Peter G. Volsky, MD

With great fanfare online as well as on Academy social media channels, the Humanitarian Efforts Committee and the Membership and IT Business Unit have launched a Humanitarian Efforts Map now ready for viewing on our website. The map is a user-friendly graphical interface for otolaryngology-related humanitarian efforts around the globe. It allows rapid identification of ongoing projects that are geographically or clinically similar, for the purpose of enhancing collaboration among otolaryngologist Members and non-members.

This web project has been years in the making. The Academy’s Humanitarian Efforts Committee has long kept a list of otolaryngology-related healthcare delivery projects and collaborations in resource-limited areas and developing nations, but, until now, never in an easily accessible online format. The site is accessible at www.entnet.org/content/humanitarian-efforts-map. If you are interested in featuring your initiative or project on the map, the Committee requests that Members submit all details using the designated form to the AAO-HNSF Program Manager for Global Affairs, Scott Vincent Andrews, MA, at humanitarian@entnet.org.

 

 


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