BMJ Global Health Initiatives

BMJ wins Geneva Centre for Security Policy’s 2018 prize for Innovation in Global Security. 

Our winning submission: Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Training Initiative,  provides primary care physicians and hospital specialists with access to BMJ Best Practice (an online clinical decision support tool) and BMJ Learning (an online interactive, multimedia learning platform), which contain evidence-based content on infectious diseases and their differential diagnoses.

New and emerging infectious diseases are a major threat to a global security. Health professionals are the first line of defence when it comes to detecting infectious diseases, and without a skilled health workforce, there can be no health security. The CDS Training Initiative builds health system resilience through workforce development, and focuses specifically on improving doctors’ knowledge of dangerous pathogens.  In addition to content on infectious diseases, users have access to the entire content of BMJ resources which covers 95% of the most commonly presented health conditions.

As of November 2018, the CDS Training Initiative has trained more than 12,500 infectious disease specialists and primary care doctors across 800 institutions in six countries. The initiative currently operates in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Jordan, Iraq and Vietnam with plans to expand to more countries over the next five years.