The global health field – individuals and organizations committed to the belief that free and equitable health care is a basic fundamental human right – is still a young and evolving community. Unfortunately, there is a significant lack of transparency within the field leading to limited accountability and collaboration among key actors. Further, a fundamental problem remaining for global health practitioners is to determine which models most effectively deliver high-quality care in resource-poor settings, yet, there is a dearth of quality data and operations research addressing such best practices.

Nyaya Health, a non-profit organization, works in partnership with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population to expand health care infrastructure and capacity in the rural west of Nepal. A core aim of Nyaya’s work is to enhance collaboration with similar organizations to promote the development of best practices within the global health field. To this aim, Nyaya has developed a fully transparent operations model which ensures accountability to stakeholders and also expands opportunities for collaboration with partner organizations.

The Nyaya Health Wiki was developed to be a low-cost, scalable, transparent model for organizations to share their experiences and collaborate across settings throughout the world. Nyaya’s wiki documents its operational, financial and clinical protocols and data in a publicly available and easy to use format. The wiki offers several key benefits:

·         full transparency ensuring accountability to stakeholders;

·         an opportunity for Nyaya to share its work with partner organizations and receive feedback informing the revision and further development of programs;

·         an opportunity for Nyaya’s partner organizations to learn about Nyaya’s successes and failures, consequently informing their own program development;

·         an opportunity for organizations in the global health community to collaborate fostering the development of best practices for the field.

The Wiki site acts as a searchable repository of information about all of Nyaya’s programs. It includes details ranging from line-by-line accounting documents to operational protocols for our ambulance program to data documenting our HIV treatment outcomes. All data is publicly available and can be accessed by organizations doing similar work the world around. The wiki is run off of open-source, easy to use software and therefore the operations model requires only basic investment in information-communications technology (i.e. computers and an internet connection). Given its low cost and ease of use, such a model can be scaled across organizations throughout the field to greatly enhance transparency and collaboration.

The ability to leverage such technologies offers great potential for strengthening the global health field. In the future Nyaya hopes to work with partner organizations to improve its wiki and explore further possibilities for collaboration. 

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