INTERNATIONAL
- http://www.who.int/en/ — The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health in the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, establishing norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring, and monitoring health trends.
- http://www.scidev.net/en/ — The Science and Development Network provides news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world.
- http://www.actionforglobalhealth.eu/ — Action for Global Health offers news on global health and European action to support the health Millennium Development Goals in developing countries.
- http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/ – Globalization and Health is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal providing an international forum for high-quality original research, knowledge sharing, and debate about globalization and its effects on health, both positive and negative. The journal is affiliated with the London School of Economics (LSE Health).
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Government Affiliated
- http://www.globalhealth.gov/ – The Office of Global Health Affairs
- http://www.cdc.gov/cogh/index.htm — The Coordinating Office for Global Health – part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Independent Organizations
- http://www.globalhealth.org/ — The Global Health Council is a world-wide membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world.
- http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/ — The Global Health Program is one of the initiatives funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- http://www.dcp2.org/main/Home.html — The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is an ongoing effort to determine disease control priorities and produce evidence-based analysis and resource materials to educate health policymaking in developing countries. The DCPP has created three volumes providing technical resources that can aid developing countries in bettering their health systems and ultimately, the health of their people.
- http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/ — GlobalHealthReporting.org is a project operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation with major support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=116811 – The Wilson Center, created in September 2005, created the Global Health Initiative to provide a forum for an interdisciplinary examination of these and other critical health challenges facing the United States and the world. With strong regional and cross-cutting programming, this initiative promotes dialogue about health among policy leaders. This initiative focuses on four key themes: health’s impact on development, global and domestic health policies, infectious diseases, and emerging health technologies.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
- http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/ — World Health News site from the Harvard School of Public Health
- http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/cgh/ — The University of Virginia’s Center for Global Health supports health in resource-limited settings by fostering the commitment of students, faculty, and partners from many disciplines to address the diseases of poverty.
- http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/bgcu-md/ — The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Faculty of Health Sciences: The Medical School for International Health in Collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center
- http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/ — London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London.
- http://www.nitd.novartis.com/ — The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) is a small-molecule drug discovery research institute dedicated to finding new drugs for the treatment of tropical diseases.
NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
- http://time.blogs.com/global_health/ — This site offers blogs and articles from TIME magazine about current global health issues.
