Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Student programmers for global health software projects

Looking for graduate and undergrad students who program in Java and/or PHP to work on open source global health web-based software[1][2][3][4] with UW I-TECH[6][7]. Healthcare/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 for mHealth 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 http://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/
[2] OpenELIS Global Source Code http://code.google.com/p/openelisglobal/
[3] iSante Electronic Medical Record System in Haiti http://code.google.com/p/isante/
[4] OpenMRS Electronic Medical Record in Namibia +http://www.openmrs.org/
[5] UW CIRG http://cirg.washington.edu/
[6] UW I-TECH http://www.go2itech.org/
[7] UW I-TECH Informatics Projects http://www.go2itech.org/what-we-do/heath-systems-strengthening/informatics-program/informatics-program
[8] UW OpenDataKit http://www.opendatakit.org/