American Public Health Association The oldest organization of public health professionals in the world, APHA is the primary voice for public health advocacy.
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 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.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 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.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 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.
Global Health Council 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 Global Health Gateway (Kaiser Family Foundation) 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.
HealthMap.org 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.
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) 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.
World Development Indicators (WDI) (The World Bank) 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.
World Health Organization 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.
World Health Organization Use the "Health Topics," "Countries," and "Data and Statistics" tabs to locate background information.
Kaiser EDU Issue Modules: Global Health Part of Kaiser EDU's website which offers lists of resources on broad health policy topics, such as HIV/AIDS, insurance, and immigrants' access to care.
Research Tools From kaiser.edu. Includes links to literature search information, data sources, and websites of global health organizations.