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James Orbinski’s new book ‘An Imperfect Offering’. James accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of MSF and has worked in conflicts in D.R.C, Somalia and Rwanda, amongst others. |
Welcome to our Global Health Resources and we hope you find them useful. We are currently building this section and aim to include teaching materials in global health in addition to useful links to external information. We welcome your input into this section so please email us (student@lancet.com) with your suggestions
Gapminder World is a online application which allows you to creates interactive maps and charts using data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators report. For example, you could plot life expectancy against GNP/capita, and watch the relationship change over time. Fascinating stuff and very user-friendly.
Steven Miles is a professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He is also he author of Oath Betrayed: Military Medicine and the War on Terror, which focuses on why the U.S. medical staff in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay did not report or intervene to stop the abuse of prisoners for the two years preceding the public release of the Abu Ghraib photographs. Third year medical student, Catherine Pastorius, from the University of Minnesota, interviews him in a podcast interview. She has also painstakingly transcribed the interview and if you would like a free copy of the wordfile, please email student@lancet.com
Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world. Supercourse has a network of over 42500 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for free a library of over 3232 lectures in 26 languages.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s opencourseware project provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses. http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
The Global Health Education Consortium has initiated a project to develop by late 2008 at least 100 teaching modules on global health topics..
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Home/Modules.htm
The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library is a great resource for research in Human Rights. It houses over 25,000 human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites. Documents are available in six languages - Arabic, English, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Great resource for Human Rights!
The University of Minnesota Bioethics links webpage is a fantastic and exhausting list of links, which are organized into four categories: Information Sources, Code of Ethics (links from various health care professional organization websites), Journals of Ethics, Medicine, and Science, and Literature Searches.
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Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ, gave an enlightening speech at the closing ceremony of the IFMSA conference in Canterbury on August 9th 2007. He showed some powerful slides of what the future could be like and what medical students should be doing about issues such as climate change. You can listen to it here.
Tom Ellman has worked intermittantly for Médecins Sans Frontières over the past 12 years. At The closing ceremony of the IFMSA conference in Canterbury on 9th August 2007 his keynote speech includes what it is like to work for MSF and why medical students should care about global health issues. You can listen to it here.
Resources for medical students, publications and events promoting awareness of the importance of the global environment in human health issues
http://chge.med.harvard.edu/
After a couple of minutes preamble from me (Rhona) about TheLancetStudent.com, I interview Ed Mills, the lead author of the health and human rights series in The Lancet about why students should be interested in, and more involved with, human rights. You can listen to the interview here. We also have an interview with him in our Articles section
