Useful Links
Global Health
FAIMER is pleased to provide these links as a resource for those interested in health professions education and global health. This portion of the FAIMER website will be revised on an ongoing basis. We welcome your feedback on the usefulness of these links and recommendations for additions. To send us your suggestions, click here.
Disease Prevention and Control
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Coordinating Office for Global Health
- Information on preventing and controlling a variety of diseases.
- UCSF Global Health Sciences Prevention and Public Health Group (PPHG)
- Provides training and technical assistance in international HIV surveillance, HIV/AIDS intervention research, innovative international health research, monitoring, and evaluation.
Global Health Collaborations and Networks
- GHDonline
- On-line collaboration communities of global health providers.
- Healthcare Information for All by 2015 (HIFA2015)
- Provides knowledge-based public health information for health care providers around the world.
- Health Metrics Network (HMN)
- International collaboration focused on strengthening country health information systems at country and global levels.
- The INCLEN Trust
- Global medical professionals network conducting collaborative, interdisciplinary research on high-priority health problems.
- The Network: Towards Unity for Health
- Promotes medical education, health services, and research through consultation, annual international conferences, and publications.
- World Economic Forum Global Health Initiative
- Tackles HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and health systems issues by initiating projects with global partners; provides relative information through its own library.
- World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA)
- Global access to dentists, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, and physicians; joint efforts to promote public health through conferences, campaigns, guidance, and statements.
Global Health Policy
- African Union Africa Health Strategy 2007-2015 (Word document)
- Report on current health systems in Africa and strategic plan for future direction.
- Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
- Policy studies and reports on global health.
- Center for Global Development: Global Health Policy Research Network
- Publications and events related to global health policy.
- Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP)
- Research and publications related to disease control and health policy planning in developing countries.
- global health.gov
- Provides information on major health issues, international health regulation, international agreements pertaining to global health, and initiatives and partnerships that impact public health issues at national and international levels.
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
- An independent research center at the University of Washington measuring the world’s most pressing issues and providing training for global health policymakers, professionals, and scholars.
- UNDP Human Development Reports
- National, regional, and global reports addressing human development issues.
- World Health Organization
- Provides leadership on global health matters, shapes the health research agenda, sets norms and standards, articulates evidence-based policy options, provides technical support to countries, and monitors and assesses health trends.
Global Health Funding Directories and Resources
- Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group (AGAG)
- Membership network of foundations that are currently funding in Africa or are interested in funding in Africa, designed to promote increased and more effective grant making through information sharing and knowledge building.
- Fogarty International Center Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences
- Comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research, separated by category; published by the international component of the National Institutes of Health.
- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Public Health Info Links (PHIL)
- Directory of foundations, agencies, and other organizations that provide funding for public health research.
Global Health Research
- African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
- Resources for medical training, research, and future strategy planning in Africa and other developing regions.
- Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI)
- An international foundation dedicated to improving child health globally through research that informs health policy and practice.
- Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED)
- An international, non-governmental organization dedicated to improving research for health in low- and middle-income countries by supporting them in areas such as health research system assessment and development, policy development, priority setting, and research communication/knowledge translation.
- Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP)
- Research and publications related to disease control and health policy planning in developing countries.
- Global Forum for Health Research
- Publications and website links on health research issues and health innovations.
- Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project
- Resources on global health education and research.
- Global Health Library (GHL)
- Developed by the WHO, the GHL provides access to global and regional indexes of scientific and technical literature.
- The INCLEN Trust
- Global medical professionals network conducting collaborative, interdisciplinary research on high-priority health problems.
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
- An independent research center at the University of Washington measuring the world’s most pressing issues and providing training for global health policymakers, professionals, and scholars.
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Provides funds to research activities that are designed to directly benefit developing countries and their citizens.
Global Health Capacity Building
- Healthcare Information for All by 2015 (HIFA2015)
- Provides knowledge-based public health information for health care providers around the world.
- Jhpiego
- An affiliate of Johns Hopkins University focusing on strengthening the delivery of health care services for women and their families by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, and hands-on solutions.
- Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
- Renders advice and support in health service leadership and management, health service delivery, human resources for health, pharmaceutical management, health care financing, and health information.
- UCSF Global Health Sciences Prevention and Public Health Group (PPHG)
- Provides training and technical assistance in international HIV surveillance, HIV/AIDS intervention research, innovative international health research, monitoring, and evaluation.
Health Care Volunteer Opportunities
- Omni Med
- Provides health care volunteer programs and an on-line database of health service opportunities for potential volunteers.
Health Information and Statistics
- BIREME/PAHO Virtual Health Library
- Scientific, legal, technical, and factual health information and data.
- CIA – The World Factbook
- Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
- Demographic and Health Surveys
- Information for use in planning, monitoring, and improving population, health, and nutrition programs.
- GlobalHealthFacts.org
- Data on disease cases around the world.
- Health Metrics Network (HMN)
- International collaboration focused on strengthening country health information systems at country and global levels.
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- Information resources, including publications, data and statistics, projects, and programs, by country, related to the Western Hemisphere’s most pressing public health issues.
- PAHO Health Statistics from the Americas
- Detailed mortality data in countries of the Americas.
- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Public Health Info Links (PHIL)
- Provides accessible links related to public health issues.
- UNICEF Statistics and Monitoring
- Measures the situation of children and women and tracks progress through data collection and analysis.
- UNDP Human Development Reports
- National, regional, and global reports addressing human development issues.
- U.S. Census Bureau International Data Base (IDB)
- Data related to world population.
- World Bank Health, Nutrition, and Population Statistics (HNPStats)
- Comprehensive database of health, nutrition, and population (HNP) statistics including population dynamics, nutrition, reproductive health, health financing, medical resources and usage, immunization, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
- World Health Organization - Global Health Atlas
- Database for analysis and comparison of standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels.
- Worldmapper
- A collection of world maps, using equal area cartograms where territories are resized on each map according to a particular variable.
- The World Medical Journal
- Publishes overviews of trends and new areas of medical progress on both regional and international developments.
Global Health Organizations and Issues
- Global Health Council
- Addresses major global health concerns including women’s health, child health, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, health systems, and emerging issues.
- global health.gov
- Provides information on major health issues, international health regulation, international agreements pertaining to global health, and initiatives and partnerships that impact public health issues at national and international levels.
- Grand Challenges in Global Health
- Supports investigators, entrepreneurs, and innovators who can help fight diseases through new ideas and technology.
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- Information resources, including publications, data and statistics, projects, and programs, related to the Western Hemisphere’s most pressing public health issues.
- World Economic Forum Global Health Initiative
- Tackles HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and health systems issues by initiating projects with global partners; provides relevant information through its own library.
- World Health Organization
- Provides leadership on global health matters, shapes the health research agenda, sets norms and standards, articulates evidence-based policy options, provides technical support to countries, and monitors and assesses health trends.
- The World Medical Journal
- Publishes overviews of trends and new areas of medical progress on both regional and international developments.
Global Health Provider Education
- AED-SATELLIFE Center for Health Information and Technology
- Provides global health literature and high-tech medical solutions to health care providers in the developing world.
- African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
- Resources for medical training, research, and future strategy planning in Africa and other developing worlds.
- BIREME: The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
- Contributes to the development of health in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean by means of the democratization of access, publication, and use of health information, knowledge, and scientific evidence.
- BIREME/PAHO Virtual Health Library
- Data on scientific, legal, technical, and factual health information.
- Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project
- Resources on global health education and research.
- Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC)
- Information about global health courses, curricula, websites, and other educational materials for faculty and students.
- Global Health through Education, Training and Service (GHETS)
- Provides start-up grants to health care training institutions in low-income countries. Provides technical help to launch and improve programs that prepare and support health care workers in rural and poor communities.
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
- An independent research center at the University of Washington measuring the world’s most pressing issues and providing training for global health policymakers, professionals, and scholars.
- Jhpiego
- An affiliate of Johns Hopkins University focusing on strengthening the delivery of health care services for women and their families by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, and hands-on solutions.
- Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
- Renders advice and support in health service leadership and management, health service delivery, human resources for health, pharmaceutical management, health care financing, and health information.
- The Network: Towards Unity for Health
- Promotes medical education, health services, and research through consultation, annual international conferences, and publications.
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- Information resources, including publications, data and statistics, projects, and programs, related to the Western Hemisphere’s most pressing public health issues.
- Supercourse
- A repository of lectures on global health and disease prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention.
- UCSF Global Health Sciences Prevention and Public Health Group (PPHG)
- Provides training and technical assistance in international HIV surveillance, HIV/AIDS intervention research, innovative international health research, monitoring, and evaluation.