Research Guides: GLBL 467/567 Global Mental Health: Organizations & Other Web Resources

Organizations & Web Resources

Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Gates Foundation funds programs to improve mother and child health and to combat infectious diseases. Looking at "Partners" for each program will lead you to other NGOs.
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
Contains a lot of information useful for students in global health programs.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
IHME is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington. It is known for its ongoing Global Burden of Disease study.
Partners in Health (PIH) - Mental Health programs
PIH works to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care, by establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty and working in close partnership with local government officials and the world’s leading medical and academic institutions.

Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs)

World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO works through offices in more than 150 countries to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations’ system.
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Browseable "topics" include mental disorders, mental health, dementia, depression, substance abuse, suicide; or search on specific issues such as PTDS, bipolar disorder, etc.
OECD Health
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's health web site, covering health policies and data.

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECDs analysis and data.
UO-owned books only.

Public Health Europe
European Commission/EU public health site covering health policy and systems, health, and food safety issues.

Regional

WHO Regional Offices

Africa

Africa Health Stats A data site that allows you to chart, map and compare key health indicators across all 55 African Union member states.

Asia

Europe

Latin America

U.S. Universities with Large Global Health Programs/Institutes

Annotated List of Online Global Health Resources
From the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, a very comprehensive list.
Find Policy - Global Health
This search page at Find Policy, still experimental, focuses on research organizations that work on Global Health. In addition to institutions focusing on decreasing global inequity in health, this engine also includes institutions with a focus on global health policy issues. US institutions are included to the extent that they do extensive international work.
International Affairs Resources -- Public Health
From a comprehensive list of links for international studies, maintained by Dr. Wayne A. Selcher, Professor Emeritus of Elizabethtown College.
International Think Tanks (Harvard list)
Custom Google search is possible across all 250 organizations.

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Country Profiles research guide
UO Libraries links to country profiles from major IGOs, NGO's and media sources.