Awards

The OpenWHO team has been honored to receive the following recognitions since the platform's launch in June 2017:

• Gold Winner for the 'Best international digital transformation of a training programme in response to COVID-19' at the 2020 Learning Technologies Awards;
• Best Communication Paper Award at the 2020 International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Health Care;
• 2018 World Health Organization Director-General's Award for Excellence;
• Jet d'Or Prize at the 2018 Geneva Health Forum; and
• Humanitarian Actor 2018 from Translators Without Borders.

Publications

Research findings from the OpenWHO learning platform have been featured in the following scientific publications:

2021

• Delivering WHO’s Life-Saving Information in Real-Time During a Pandemic Through an Online Learning Platform: Evidence from Global Use (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021)
• Evaluating Complexity of Digital Learning in a Multilingual Context: A Cross-Linguistic Study on WHO's Emergency Learning Platform (Poster: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021)
• One Year of Pandemic Learning Response: Benefits of Massive Online Delivery of the World Health Organization’s Technical Guidance (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021)
• COVID-19 as a driver to revolutionize education for public health / La COVID-19, un moteur pour révolutionner l’éducation dans le domaine de la santé publique (Weekly Epidemiological Record / Relevé épidémiologique hebdomadaire, 2021)

2020

• Responding to Global Learning Needs during a Pandemic: An Analysis of the Trends in Platform Use and Incidence of COVID-19 (Education Sciences, 2020)
• An Analysis of the Growth in Uptake of OpenWHO’s Online Learning Resources for COVID-19 (International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Health Care, 2020)
• Global Access to OpenWHO’s Online Learning Resources for COVID-19 (Poster: International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Health Care, 2020; Best Communication Paper Award)
• Serving health emergency responders through online learning – findings from OpenWHO’s global user metrics (Poster: Medical Informatics Europe, 2020)
• Identifying and Assessing Competencies for Staff Working in Public Health Emergencies (Poster: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2020)
• Fast-tracking WHO’s COVID-19 technical guidance to training for the frontline / Accélération de la mise à disposition des orientations techniques de l’OMS sur la COVID-19 aux fins de la formation des intervenants de première ligne (Weekly Epidemiological Record / Relevé épidémiologique hebdomadaire, 2020)
• Global Reach of an Online COVID-19 Course in Multiple Languages on OpenWHO in the First Quarter of 2020: Analysis of Platform Use Data (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020)

2019

• OpenWHO traffic analysis: Can we predict non-profit course reach by dissemination channel? (EMOOCs, 2019)

2018

• Knowledge transfer for Ebola outbreak–production and use of OpenWHO. org online learning resources (International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, 2018)
• OpenWHO: Integrating Online Knowledge Transfer into Health Emergency Response (EC-TEL, 2018)
• Exploring Possibilities to Partially Transform Simulation Exercises into Interactive Games on OpenWHO.org - Digitizing Live Role-Playing Game Exercises Online for Epidemics and Health Emergency Work (IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, 2018)
• OpenWHO: integrate massive online learning into health emergency response (Poster: Geneva Health Forum 2018; Jet d'Or Prize)

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