Knowledge Management for Accessibility With Hilary Wartinger

Hilary Wartinger is the Senior Advisor of Knowledge Management at Save the Children, focusing on the Healthy Newborn Network. With a wealth of experience in humanitarian contexts across Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Somalia, Hilary is committed to addressing crucial knowledge deficits in newborn health. Before Save the Children, she was pivotal as the Advisor of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the Women's Refugee Commission. 

Hilary's background includes service as a Peace Corps volunteer and academic achievements such as a master's degree in public health from Columbia University, alongside degrees in journalism and international relations. She specializes in devising strategies to ensure the accessibility and equity of health information in the digital sphere.

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Knowledge management plays a crucial role in public health and organizational development. It involves the systematic process of managing, storing, and sharing an organization's wealth of information and data. This encompasses reports, data, and lessons learned from both successes and failures. The objective is twofold: ensuring internal accessibility for staff and partners and making this knowledge available to the wider world.

The move towards equitable knowledge sharing aims to elevate and integrate diverse sources of wisdom. Public health professional Hilary Wartinger emphasizes this shift, acknowledging that all knowledge — whether from academic research, local traditions, or indigenous practices — is valuable and powerful. By fostering an open-source approach to information, organizations can promote a more inclusive and comprehensive understanding of public health challenges and solutions.

On the latest episode of the Nonprofit Thrive podcast with Ben Freda, Hilary Wartinger, Senior Advisor of Knowledge Management at Save the Children, talks about managing knowledge online. Hilary shares her journey from the Peace Corps to Save the Children, discussing the intricacies of knowledge sharing in the nonprofit world, the importance of understanding audience needs, and the role technology plays in bridging communication gaps.