Links and Resources
Charities
- Oxfam
The main site for Oxfam - THET
The website for the Tropical Health and Education Trust, a charity dedicated to improving the quality of heath services in the developing world - Merlin
Merlin is a UK charity which provides health care and medical relief for people caught up in natural disasters, conflict, disease and health system collapse.
- Oxfam
Electives
- Medics Travel
A one stop shop where you can plan everything you need for your elective - Child Family Health International
A non-profit organisation operating socially responsible electives
- Medics Travel
Global Health Resources
- Gapminder
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 relationshi - Supercourse
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 languag - Global Health Education Consortium Modules
The Global Health Education Consortium has initiated a project to develop by late 2008 at least 100 teaching modules on global health topics. - Energy and health
The complete collection of articles in the Lancet Energy and Health series - Mental Health
The complete collection of Lancet articles on mental health - Chronic Disease Series
The collection of articles in the Lancet Chronic Disease Series - Who Counts?
The Collection of the Lancet 'Who Counts?' series - Women Deliver
The Women Deliver collection of Lancet articles - Child Survival
The Lancet Child Survival Special Issue articles - HIV/AIDS Special Issue
The special HIV/AIDS Lancet issue from July 2007 - Maternal and Child Undernutrition
A link to the Lancet Maternal and Child Undernutrition series
- Gapminder
Medical Departments Asia
Medical Departments Australasia
Medical Departments Europe
Medical Departments North America
Medical Departments UK
- Hull and York Medical School
- University of Leeds
- University of Southampton
- Imperial College
- University of East Anglia
- University of Manchester
- Cambridge University
- Swansea University School of Medicine
- University of Nottingham
- University of Lancaster
- University of Sheffield
- Durham University
- University of Liverpool
Networks
- Alma Mata
For all health professionals interested in global health issues, providing a source of information and a means of discussion and communication on these issues - University Coalition for Global Health
A US-based collaboration in global health - Global Health Education Consortium
A consortium of faculty and health care educators dedicated to global health education in North American health professions - The Institute for International Medical Education
A website for worldwide medical education, including a database containing details of every medical school in the world
- Alma Mata
Student Bodies
- IFMSA
The website of the International Federation of Medical Students Association - Medsin
The UK section of the IFMSA - International Exchange, Erasmus Student Network
A European Commission exchange programme, which enables students in 31 European countries to study abroad for part of their degree - Organization of International Health
an organisation of students at Stanford University School of Medicine who want to increase awareness of international health issues
- IFMSA
The Lancet
- Indigenous Health
Indigenous peoples are a potent example of our human diversity of culture, language, and spirit. They have been the guardians of our global environment and its medicines for millennia—built on a holistic communal view of humanity and its links to the ecos - Newborn, child, and maternal survival
The Lancet is committed to improving newborn, child, and maternal survival. Exclusive online material, coverage of meetings and special issues/series relating to child survival, and a complete article collection dating back to 2003 is available here. - Adolescent Health: an opportunity not to be missed
Today’s generation of adolescents is the largest in history—nearly half of the world’s population is less than 25 years old—and they face far more complex challenges to their health and development than their parents did. Many young people today are livin - Energy and health
The complete collection of articles in the Lancet Energy and Health series - Mental Health
The complete collection of Lancet articles on mental health - Chronic Disease Series
The collection of articles in the Lancet Chronic Disease Series - Who Counts?
The Collection of the Lancet 'Who Counts?' series - Women Deliver
The Women Deliver collection of Lancet articles - Child Survival
The Lancet Child Survival Special Issue articles - HIV/AIDS Special Issue
The special HIV/AIDS Lancet issue from July 2007 - Maternal and Child Undernutrition
A link to the Lancet Maternal and Child Undernutrition series - The Lancet Global Health Network
The Lancet's network focusing on global health.
- Indigenous Health
US Resources
- The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s opencourseware project
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s opencourseware project provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses. - The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
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 - University of Minnesota Bioethics links
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 - Harvard Medical School: Centre for Health and the Global environment
Resources for medical students, publications and events promoting awareness of the importance of the global environment in human health issues.
- The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s opencourseware project