Professional Resources
If you have other suggested sources please let us know in an email to hpforgh@gmail.com
NEW resource:
Missing migrants - a resource mapping migration routes, providing data about numbers of refugees across the world and recording fatalities.
1. Working abroad
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Volunteer Global Health: a website to link international charities to volunteers
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THET Alongside its other work, THET has development-focused volunteer opportunities in Zambia
2. Advocacy Groups
3. Membership Organisations
4. News and newsletter sources
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Global Health Now from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Global Health
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International Health Policies Newsletter The International Health Policies Network (IHP Network) is an initiative of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM), run by the Health Policy and Financing Unit.
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Think Global Health From the Council on Foreign Relations, New York
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Promed Mail latest email updates from the International Society for Infectious Diseases, a service to identify unusual health events related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and toxins affecting humans, animals and plants
5. Charities
Greece and the Middle East
6. Journals
7. Data Sources
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Demographic Health Survey provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.
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Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is an excellent source of population- related data relevant to global health. The data bank includes many tables and graphs in downloadable Powerpoint files.
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WorldMapper displays information in maps. World social, economic, health and other indicators are portrayed on global maps that reflect not the size of countries, but the relative size of their GDP, population, energy use, health indicators, etc.
8. Publications
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Handbook of Refugee Health Recently published in 2021'For Healthcare Professionals and Humanitarians Providing Care to Forced Migrants'. This book 'provides a framework to identify and approach health needs' of refugees.
9. Other
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Eldis - an information gateway for development issues, linking to thousands of publications and news stories and websites. An good starting point for researching a topic in global health.
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Global Atlas of Helminth Infections GAHI shows the geographical distribution of neglected tropical diseases transmitted by worms: soil-transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis. All GAHI resources are available on an open access basis
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International AIDS Economic Network The principal objective of the IAEN is to assist AIDS economists and policymakers in developing countries to interact more effectively with global colleagues to promote compassionate, cost-effective responses to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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The Global Fund partnership model is designed to promote innovative solutions to global health challenges. Countries take the lead in determining where and how to best fight AIDS, TB and malaria and The Global Fund raises the money