Research Guides: Global 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.
Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Founded to was founded to "help save the lives of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world by dramatically scaling up antiretroviral treatment", CHAI also has programs in maternal, newborn and child health, malaria, and vaccines.
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
Contains a lot of information useful for students in global health programs.
GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance
GAVI = Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, a public-private partnership aiming to increase equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries
The Global Fund
"The Global Fund is a 21st-century partnership organization designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics."
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)
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.
PATH
An international nonprofit organization with the aim of improving health through accelerating innovation in 5 areas: vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and systems and service innovations.

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.
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

Public Health Europe
European Commission/EU public health site covering health policy and systems, health, and food safety issues.
UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS works on treatment, prevention, human rights, and provides information and data.

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.
NEPAD Agency - Food and Nutrition Security

Asia

Asian Development Bank (ADB) Focus on Health
SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Centre
SEAOHUN.org (South East Asia One Heath University Network)

Europe

EUROPA - Health European Union health programs and institutions

Latin America

LAC-Urban Health Urban Health Network for Latin America and the Carribean
Pan American Health Organization

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

Columbia Global Health Initiative
Duke Global Health Institute
Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
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Provides access to student-written papers.
University of Washington Dept. of Global Health

Link Library
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 Organizations links (at Northwestern University)
Links to IGOs and official web sites of foreign governments.
International Think Tanks (Harvard list)
Custom Google search is possible across all 250 organizations.

See also:

Country Profiles research guide
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The Country Profiles guide provides links to IGOs, NGOS, and bilateral development agencies.

Specialized search engines

IGO Search
Search the websites of over 3000 intergovernmental organizations.
ELDIS Google Development Websearch
Search 4000 development-focused websites.
Country domain extensions
Use these extensions to restrict a Google (or other search engine) search to sources from a particular country.
Nongovernmental Organizations
Search the websites of over 1000 international NGOs.