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MrsEdith Certain

Knowledge Management Consultant

Self employed

  • Knowledge Management Consultant
    Self employed
  • 964 Route de Verayon, Brenthonne, 74890, France

BIO

Retired from the World Health Organization, October 2012 after 28 years. Librarian and specialist in knowledge management in the field of global health. Still acts as consultant on special health information projects.

Project manager of the FAME initiative (Forum for African Medical Editors) (2002-2006)
Manager of the TropIKA.net initiative (2007-2012).
Part of the team that compiled and finalized the Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty published in April 2012
Manager and initiator of the Blue Trunk Library project 1996-2002.

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Knowledge Management Consultant
    Self employed, Brenthonne, France1 Jul 2013 - present
  • Knowledge Management Officer,
    World Health Organization (Switzerland), Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland1 Jan 2002 - 31 Oct 2012
  • Librarian
    World Health Organization (Switzerland), Library and Information Networks (LNK), Geneva, Switzerland1 Jul 1989 - 31 Dec 2001
  • Librarian
    World Health Organization (Switzerland), Parasitic Diseases Control Programme (PDP), Geneva, Switzerland1 Jan 1985 - 30 Jun 1989
  • Research Librarian
    Institut d'Elevage et de Médecine vétérinaire des Pays tropicaux (IEMVT), Library, Maisons-Alfort, France2 Jan 1978 - 31 Dec 1984
  • Medical Librarian
    University of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Radcliffe Science Library, Oxford, United Kingdom1 Sep 1975 - 30 Dec 1977
  • Library Assistant
    University of Oxford, Taylor Institution Library, Oxford, United Kingdom2 Sep 1974 - 29 Aug 1975

DEGREES

  • Master English Litterature
    Paris 7 Jussieu University, Institut Charles V, Paris, France15 Sep 1982 - 14 Sep 1984
  • BA English Litterature
    Paris 7 Jussieu University, Institut Charles V, Paris, France16 Sep 1979 - 15 Jul 1982
  • Diploma in Librarianship studies
    Institut catholique de Paris - Ecole de Bibliothécaire Documentaliste, Paris, France1 Sep 1971 - 1 Sep 1973

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Medical Informatics MBL/NLM Course Fellow
    Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States12 May 2003 - present
    Medical Informatics MBL/NLM Course Fellow - Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Certificate, Spring Course, 2003

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • French
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write, speak and understand

WHO REGION

  • WHO European Region

COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY

  • France

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