Public health directory - international

Some selected international organisations involved in public health.

Charitable organisations

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  Pre-eminent charity set up by the ex-Microsoft honcho funding work into major public health issues
• Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Alliance of UK aid charities
• Global Health Council  US-based nonprofit organisation
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)  International aid charity
• Madre International women's rights charity
• Medact  UK-based charity focusing on global health, including the politics of conflict
• Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)  International medical relief charity
• Merlin  International medical relief charity
• Oxfam  UK-based aid charity
• VSO  Voluntary Service Overseas, UK-based development charity

Education, academia and reference

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization WHO public health journal
• CancerMondial (IARC)  aka the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a UN/WHO venture
• Globalization and Health journal (BMC)
• Global Public Health journal (Taylor & Francis)
• Journal of International Development Social science and allied papers
• People's Uni  Low-cost online courses in public health for professionals in developing countries
• Population Reference Bureau  International health data
• World Health Statistics 2006  From the WHO

Networks

• Alma Mata Global Health Network - information on careers in international health
• Global Healthcare Information network - including the Healthcare Information for All by 2015 (HIFA2015) campaign

Statutory bodies

• European Commission Public Health Unit  EU public health policies and programmes
• Department for international development (DFID) UK Government department
• Intergovernmental panel on climate change (WMO) The IPCC regularly reviews the evidence on the causes and effects of global warming
• International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI)  Does what is says on the tin
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)  Health and welfare of displaced peoples
• UNESCO UN organisation promoting universal education, an important determinant of health
• UNICEF  UN agency defending the rights of the child, including gender equality
  
• World Bank  Specialist agency of the UN
• World Health Organization (WHO)  Large, bureaucratic but important, UN-sponsored international health agency
  

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