Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Student programmers needed for global health projects

Looking for students who program in Java and/or PHP to work on open source global health web-based software[1][2][3][4] with the School of Nursing's Clinical Informatics Research Group[5] (CIRG) and UW I-TECH[6][7].  Health/clinical experience not necessary.

Gain experience working here at UW with international teams on projects for Haiti, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, Namibia, and Viet Nam.  Opportunities for collaboration on posters and publications.  Future work includes expansion into mobile development with open source tools such as OpenDataKit[8].

Hourly and RA opportunities.  Please contact Jan Flowers at jflow2@uw.edu outlining experience and availability.


Links:
[1] OpenELIS Global - Laboratory Information System
[2] OpenELIS Global Source Code
[3] iSante Electronic Medical Record System in Haiti
[4] OpenMRS Electronic Medical Record in Namibia +
[5] UW CIRG
[6] UW I-TECH
[7] UW I-TECH Informatics Projects
[8] UW OpenDataKit