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1. Global Health Institutional Resources
General Resources
United Nations (UN) (http://www.un.org)
Specialized Agencies (selected citations)
United Nations
United States Government
Federal agency locator (lcweb.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html)
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (http://www.dhhs.gov)
U.S. Department of State (http://www.state.gov/)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) (USAID - http://www.info.usaid.gov/)
Department of Commerce (http://www.doc.gov/)
Demographic and Socio-Economic Research Services (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/ressvc.html)
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA -http://www.noaa.gov/)
Peace Corps (http://www.peacecorps.gov/)
U.S. Department of Justice
Other Resources
National Academies of Science Institute of Medicine (IOM - http://www.iom.edu/)
Kiwanis International (http://www.kiwanis.org/)
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (ICRC - http://www.icrc.org/)
Family Health International (FHI) (FHI -http://www.fhi.org/)
Population Council (http://www.popcouncil.org/)
InterAction - coalition of international nonprofit organizations (http://www.interaction.org/)
Selected institutional members of InterAction:
- American Red Cross (ARC) (ARC - http://www.redcross.org)
- CARE (http://www.care.org/)
- World Vision (http://www.wvi.org/)
- Médécins Sans Frontières (MSF - http://www.msf.org/)
- Catholic Relief Services (CRS - http://www.catholicrelief.org/)
- Save the Children (SCF - http://www.savethechildren.org/)
- Academy for Educational Development (AED - http://www.aed.org/)
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Epidemiology (many international links) (http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html)
2.
Global Health Data
and Information Resources
United Nations
World Health Organization
(WHO -
http://www.who.ch)
World Bank ( IBRD http://www.worldbank.org)
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (UNICEF - http://www.unicef.org/ )
United States Government
Department of Health and Human Services (http://www.dhhs.gov)
Department of State (http://www.state.gov)
Department of Commerce - U.S. Census Bureau
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (CIA -http://www.odci.gov/)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ( USAID - http://www.info.usaid.gov/)
Center for International Health Information publications (http://www.cihi.com/publist.htm)
Other
National Academies of Science Institute of Medicine (IOM - http://www.iom.edu/)
Population Reference Bureau, Inc. (http://www.prb.org/)
Macro International: Demographic and Health Surveys (http://www.measuredhs.com/)
United Nations
World Health Organization (WHO)
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO - http://www.paho.org/)
UN Environmental Programme (UNEP - http://www.unep.org/)
United States Government
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA - http://www.epa.gov/)
National Institute for Environmental Sciences and Health
(NIH/NIEHS -http://www.niehs.nih.gov/)
National Center for Environmental Health (CDC/NCEH -http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/)
Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) (http://www.cia.gov)
USAID:
Environmental Health Project(http://www.ehproject.org/)
Other
National Environmental Health Association (NEHA - http://www.neha.org/)
Links to other environmental health resources (http://www.neha.org/links.html)
Earthwatch (http://www.earthwatch.org/)
World Resources Institute (WRI - http://www.wri.org/)
International Society for Exposure Analysis (http://www.iseaweb.org/)
United States Government
CDC – National Center for Environmental Health
United Nations
World Health Organization (WHO)
Other
Institute of Medicine
(IOM -
http://www.iom.edu/)
Micronutrient Initiative (MI): A nonprofit organization specializing in addressing micronutrient malnutrition. MN-NET - in Canada (http://www.micronutrient.org/) (Sponsoring agencies: CIDA, IDRC, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, USAID)
International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders
(http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jtd/iccidd/)
Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition (PAMM)
(http://www.sph.emory.edu/PAMM )
Micronutrient Information Sources (http://www.sph.emory.edu/PAMM/misources.html)
United Nations
United Nations Development Programme ( http://www.undp.org/)
UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) (http://www.unhabitat.org/)
UN Statistics Division (http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/)
World Health Organization (WHO) (http://www.who.int/en/)
United States Government
U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (http://www.info.usaid.gov/)
EPA Air Now-Real Time Air Pollution Data (http://www.epa.gov/airnow/)
United States Government
CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/lead.htm)
CDC Blood Lead Level Laboratory Reference System
(http://www.cdc.gov/nceh//lead/factsheets/bllrs.htm)