Online Global Health Resources
This is an ever-growing list of online resources useful to people involved in global health. If you know of resources that should be added, please email .
Global Health in the News
CBS News 60-Minutes report on Paul Farmer On May 4, 2008, CBS News 60-Minutes produced a 12-minute segment on Paul Farmer, a Duke alumnus who is changing the way people think about providing medical care in developing countries.
Global Health Websites
Global Health Education Consortium This list, published by the Global Health Education Consortium, includes international health-related websites. The site currently include a global health bibliography, a recently updated listed of useful websites, informational material on preparing for an overseas assignment, and the major players on the global health stage.
Duke University Medical Center Library Online Subject Guides The Duke University Medical Center Library has developed customized Web pages for Duke partner sites so that local practitioners who do not have access to Duke collections can easily access quality medical information online. These pages are streamlined to be able to load quickly in locations with low bandwidth. Resources on the pages include local databases of medical articles (e.g., African Index Medicus, BIREME), a PubMed search interface in native language, where available, and location-specific disease information. Currently there are pages for Duke programs in Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Kenya. These pages are linked off the Library's global health subject guide.
Reference Libraries The Kaiser Family Foundation has assimilated data about many current global health issues, including HIV/AIDS, Women's Health, Quality of Care, and Medicaid and formed documents on each issue. This is a useful source for anyone looking to catch up on recent developments or possibly expand their knowledge to a new area.
Ongoing Journals & Newsletters
Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary This publication summarizes the Institute of Medicine's 2007 Roundtable on Health Disparities. Issues highlighted include explanations and recommendations to address life expectancy disparities in the United States.
Psychosomatic Medicine – Special HIV Issue Titled *Psychosocial Influences in HIV/AIDS: Biobehavioral Mechanisms, Interventions, and Clinical Implications,” this issue of Psychosomatic Medicine focuses on the social and psychological implications of HIV/AIDS and associated risk factors. Topics include trauma, mental health, stigmatization, coping, and more.
Lancet Global Health Network A new feature created by The Lancet, this website aims to draw together international and national experts in global health to conduct inquiries, evaluate data, and ultimately, formulate recommendations. Acting almost as a "global health blog", this ongoing newsletter makes weekly highlights of The Lancet articles pertinent to global health and pinpoints interesting stories in the week.
Student Lancet Run by The Lancet, this interactive student site allows students to write about global health issues, submit elective reports, read a weekly summary of what’s in The Lancet, comment on the daily blog, vote in polls, download podcasts, and use global health resources.
Globalization and Health An online journal published by BioMed Central, this site is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that provides a platform for research, knowledge sharing and debate on the topic of globalization and its effects on health, both positive and negative. The journal is affiliated with the London School of Economics.
Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology Newsletter This is a quarterly newsletter published by the Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), which is based at Duke. It is an easy way to stay abreast the vast amount of research completed by this consortium.
Global Health Data
Custom Data Sheets
This new Kaiser Family Foundation feature enables users to compare health, demographic, and economic statistics in up to five different countries at a time. Each data sheet can be downloaded and saved for presentations or meetings and be viewed online. Snapshots of a certain country can also be made in the customized data sheets.
Kaiser Fast Facts
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently launched this new component to its website, featuring Quicktakes and Kaiser Slides, which provide quick and easy access to facts, data, and slides about the nation’s health care system and programs. This site also allows visitors to access fact sheets and online data/analysis tools that the Foundation created.
QuickTakes provides an overview of the US health care system, as well as information on a wide variety of topics including Medicaid, Medicare, minority health, the link between entertainment media and health, and public opinion. It is a great tool to access health policy statistics without having to sift through several publications. Links are also provided.
Kaiser Slides enables individuals to access hundreds of graphics and tables that illustrate health policy trends and statistics gathered by Kaiser and other institutes.
GlobalHealthFacts.org
The Kaiser Family Foundation maintains this site, which offers more than fifty health related indicators across a wide range of areas and topics. It features an interactive map, offers the information in tables, charts, and color coded maps. The information can also be downloaded for custom analysis.
Tropical Diseases Research to Foster Innovation and Knowledge Application
This site is a web portal to help people identify and use vital information related to infectious diseases. It is run by the Topical Disease Research Program and co-sponsored by the United Nation’s Children’s Fund, the United Nation’s Development Programme, the World Bank and the World Health Organization. The site aims to improve access to scientific information on infectious disease of poverty and provide health researchers and decision makers with a comprehensive resource about the best practices and authoritative summaries of research finding that have implications for their efforts to meet the challenges of infectious disease control.
State Health Facts
This recently redesigned and updated site from Kaiser Family Foundation provides the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation and budgets.
Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity and Medical Care
Published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, this 2007 update serves as a quick reference source on health disparities. The report includes data on the uninsured and access to care by race/ethnicity as well as information about the disproportionate effect that specific conditions such as diabetes, HIV/AIDS and asthma have on racial and ethnic minority populations in the U.S. New in the 2007 Key facts are demographic data on the racial/ethnic minority population in each state.
