GLHLTH 637K: Population & Environmental Dynamics Influencing Health: Web Resources

The oldest organization of public health professionals in the world, APHA is the primary voice for public health advocacy.

A worldwide organization of scientists, clinicians, and program professionals whose mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious and other diseases that disproportionately afflict the global poor.

The philanthropic organization's Global Health Program focuses on the health problems in developing countries, supporting sustainable ways to improve the delivery of existing tools and investing in research and development of new interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics.

Works with partners throughout the nation and the world to monitor health, conducts research to enhance prevention, and develop and advocate sound public health policies.

The largest alliance of health care professionals and organizations dedicated to global health, GHC highlights global health issues and concerns, brings together multiple perspectives, promotes evidence-based policy, disseminates research, and coordinates communications.

The Kaiser Family Foundation's global health gateway brings together original policy analysis and research from the Foundation, provides the new daily news synthesis, tracks legislation through a new Policy Tracker, and features fact sheets, country-level data through Kaiser's Global Health Facts, and more.

The system monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, visualizes and disseminates online information about emerging diseases in nine languages, facilitating early detection of global public health threats.

In addition to awarding grants and contracts independently, the Center partners with the NIH Institutes and Centers to support programs of health disparities research with a focus on basic and clinical research, training, and the dissemination of health information.

The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog.

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. The website includes information on global health topics, profiles of member countries, global health data and statistics, and WHO publications, programs, and projects.