Working Group 1: Defining a rationale for coordinated investment in routine health information at international and national level

Facilitators: Erin Eckert MEASURE Evaluation/JSI; Anne LaFond MEASURE Evaluation/JSI

Elizabeth Goodburn, JSI UK
Robert Kambic, The Johns Hopkins University
Thobile Mbengashe, Equity Project South Africa
Mark Spohr, Medical Informatics, Inc

Working Group 2: Coordination of Investment in Routine Health Information Collection and Use: Key Partners and Mechanisms

Facilitators: Jacques de Saint-Antoine, World Bank; Theo Lippeveld, John Snow, Inc; and

Michel Thieren, WHO OSD
Khol Khemrary, MOH Cambodia
Syed Mursalin, MOH Pakistan
Alex Simwanza, Zambia Integrated Health Partnership
Norma Wilson, USAID

Working Group 3: Restructuring HIS and subsystems of HIS

Facilitators: Besrat Hagos, MOH Eritrea and Stanislaw Orzeszyna, WHO OSD

Alphonse Akpamoli, WHO AFRO
Paul Fisher, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Jeannette Hunter, HISP South Africa
Remi Rakotomalala, MOH Madagascar
Randy Wilson, MSH

Working Group 4: Routine HIS and Health System Development (including issues related to decentralization)

Facilitator: Orvill Adams, WHO OSD

Michel Garenne Centre Francaise sur la Population et le Developpement
Cesar Gattini PAHO
Florence Harding Commonwealth Secretariat
Bambang Hartono MOH Indonesia
Calle Hedberg Health Information Systems Programme
Alok Kumar Jain MOH India
Anton Luchitsky PATH
Chris Moyo MOH Malawi
Eddie Mukooyo MOH Uganda
Peter Nsubuga Centers for Disease Control
Maryse Simonet Harvard School of Public Health

Working Group 5: Restructuring Routine Health Information Systems: Promoting Sustainable Outcomes From Investment

Facilitator: Steve Sapirie, MSH

Mimi Church, HMIS Consultant
Lali Khotenashvili, MOH Georgia
Edward Wilson, JSI DELIVER

Working Group 6: Routine HIS and Computer/Internet Technology

Facilitator: Bob Emrey, USAID

Mustapha Azelmat, MOH Morocco
Carlos Castillo-Salgado, PAHO
Michael Edwards, John Snow, Inc.
Charles Kachaka, MOH Zambia
Evelyn Oumiki Khumisi, Department of Health - South Africa
Robert Rodrigues, PAHO
John Zingeni, JSI DELIVER Malawi

Working Group 7: Strategies for promoting use of information

Facilitators: Bruce Campbell, Royal Tropical Institute & United Nations Population Fund and Patricia David, John Snow, Inc.

John Barton, JSI Madagascar
Chet Nath Chaulagai, MOH Malawi
Nasim Haque, MOH Pakistan
Arthur Heywood, University of the Western Cape
Henry Kitange, Adult Mortality and Morbidty Project (AMMP)
Arun Nanda, WHO EURO
Albertine Rasoarimiadana, MOH Madagascar
Amanda Rose, MEASURE Evalution/ORD Macro
Josibert Rubona, MOH Tanzania
Karen Van Roekel, BASICS
Emily Wainwright, USAID

Working Group 8: Integration of private sector (for profit and not-for-profit) into public sector HIS

Facilitator: Joseph Valadez, NGO Networks for Health

Lyndon Brown, USAID Nepal
Y.C. Chong, WHO WPRO
David Hotchkiss, Health Policy and Systems Strengthening (HPSS)
Sushil Karki, JSI Nepal
Ed Kelley, PHR
Wayne Stinson, MSH