Global Health and Bioinformatics Workforce Capacity Initiative to be Led by AMIA and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation

Bethesda, MD, June 5, 2008 - A $500,000 grant has been awarded to AMIA from the Rockefeller Foundation to help convene a conference in collaboration with the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on "capacity building in health informatics". The conference is part of the Foundation's "Making the eHealth Connection" conference series to be held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, beginning in July 2008.