An information flood, and the ongoing relevance of mentoring

So one thing that is slowly becoming clear to me, interacting with practitioners from both LMIC and HIC in SIOP Global Health, is that the greatest need for PHO champions in LMIC is time-efficient support for their needs, ie old-fashioned mentoring to help curate the flood of online PHO information. The primary way this process will differ from "twinning" institutions is it will partner individuals. Accordingly, as soon as I get word about my co-Chair, we will begin the task of creating a list of partnering individuals (and confirming existing partnerships), and should have that completed by the end of Q3. 

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