International Health
Our mission as is to educate, empower and promote action on global health issues. We believe these goals can be accomplished by:
- Facilitating medical professionals experiences abroad
- Promoting international health advocacy & education at home
- Creating a more cohesive & engaged international health community
The International Experience
Publications
- Creative Funding for International Health Electives – Provides an introduction to traditional and non-traditional fundraising sources for medical students planning international electives. Prepared by the International Health Medical Education Consortium and AMSA.
- A Student’s Guide to International Health – First-hand information about international experiences and how to set up an elective-from the student perspective. 1993
Web Links
Infectious Disease Resources
- Centers for Disease Control Travel Information
- GIDEON – Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network
Governmental Agencies
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Global Health.gov
- UNICEF
- U.S. Embassy Homepage
- World Health Organization
Non-Governmental International Groups
- American Council for Voluntary International Action
- Child Family Health International
- Urbana Conference
- InterServe
- The Caleb Project
- ShortTermMissions.com
- Mission Network News
- Doctors for Global Health
- Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres
- HealthWrights
- International Health Medical Education Consortium
- International Society of Travel Medicine
- Medics Travel
- Mission Finder.org
- Partners in Health
- People’s Health Movement
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- SIM (Serving In Mission)
- Heal the Nations Christian Medical Missions
Public Health Links
- Association of Schools of Public Health Information
- Harvard Univ MPH Program – International Health Concentration
- Tulane Univ School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- WWW Virtual Library: Public Health
Student Groups and Pages
- International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations
- Latin American and Native American Medical Association (LANAMA)
University International Programs & Interest Groups
- Dartmouth International Health Group
- Duke Univ
- Harvard Medical International
- Notre Dame
- Rollins School of Public Health at Emory Univ Hubert Dept of Global Health
- Univ of Arizona International Health Program
- Univ of California Berkeley’s Library Resource for International Health
- Univ of Connecticut Health Center: Center for International Community Health Studies
- Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Univ of Washington International Health Group
- Univ of Nebraska Medical Center
- Univ of Toronto
News Resources
- Global Health Council
- The Economist
- United Nations
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Kaiser Network- Lots of HIV/AIDS Info
- Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS
- Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) UN
- International Red Cross/Red Crescent
- World Health Organization
- Amnesty International
Reading List/Resources
Epidemiology/Statistics
- Global Comparative Assessments in the Health Sector: Disease Burden, Expenditures, and Intervention Packages, C.J. Murray
- The Global Epidemiology of Noncommunicable Diseases, Alan D. Lopez
- Global Health Statistics, Christopher J. L. Murray
General
- Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine, M. Eddleston, S. Pierini
- Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook: D. Werner, et al.
- Finding Work in Global Health, Garth Osborn, Patricia Ohmans
- Textbook of International Health, Paul F. Basch
- Cross-cultural Rehabilitation: An International Perspective, Ronnie Linda Leavitt
- Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in a Global Perspective, Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart
- Health Information for International Travel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Health Care Systems in Transition: An International Perspective, Francis D. Powell
- Health of Nations: An International Perspective on U.S. Health Care Reform, Laurence A. Graig
- International Health, Robert W. Buckingham
- International CO-Operation in Health, Martin McKee
- Critical Issues in Global Health: A Guide to Regions, Conditions, and Leadership Challenges, C. Everett
- Global Health Care Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Regions, Trends, and Opportunities Shaping the International Health Arena, Walter W. Wieners
- Disaster and Mass Trauma: Global Perspectives on Post Disaster Mental Health Management, Anie Sanentz Kalayjian
- The Global Challenge of Health Care Rationing, Angela Couter
- Global Migration: The Health Care Implications of Immigration and Population Movements, Paul R. Epstein
- Global Report on Student Well-Being, Alex C. Michalos
- How to Survive Disasters with Natural Medicine, Cass Ingram
- How to Stay Healthy Abroad, Richard M. Dawood
- International Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Jessica A. Herstein
- The Struggle for Health, David Sander
- Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival, David Werner and David Sanders
- Book Suggestions from Questioning the Solution
- Tropical Gangsters: One Man’s Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa, by Robert Kiltgaardi
- Lords of Poverty – The Power Prestige and Corruption of The International Aid Business, by Graham Hancock
- A New Dawn in Guatemala: Toward a Worldwide Health Vision, edited by Richard Luecke
- Witness to War, An American Doctor in El Salvador, by Charlie Clements
Health and Human Rights, and Public Health
- Humanitarian Crises: The Medical and Public Health Response, Jennifer Leaning
- Gender and Health: An International Perspective, Caroline Fishel Sargent
- Betrayal of Health: The Collapse of Global Public Health, Laurie Garrett
- Reproductive Health: Global Issues, A. Rosenfield
- The Health of Women: A Global Perspective, Marge Koblinsky
- Community Medicine: A Global Perspective, E. William Ebomoyi
- Global Issues: Public Health, Jewett-Saccoman
- Health and Human Rights: A Reader, Jonathan M. Mann
- A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters, Kenvin M. Cahill
- Health Care Reform: A Human Rights Approach, Audrey R. Chapman
- Negotiating Reproductive Rights, Rosalind P. Petchesky
- Bioethics and Human Rights: A Reader for Health Professionals, Elsie L. Bandman
- Examining Asylum Seekers: A Health Professional’s Guide to Medical and Physical Evaluation of Torture, PHR
- Health and Humanitarian Concerns: Principles and Ethics, Henry Leszek Zielinski
- Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law, Toebes Brigit C.A.
- Women’s Health and Human Rights: The Promotion and Protection of Women’s Health through International Health Rights Law, R.J. Cook
Infectious Diseases
- Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Lee B. Reichman, Janice Hopkins Tanne
- The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspective, Marcia C. Inhorn
- Disease in Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases, Richard Levins
- Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, edited by Abram S. Benenson
- The Plague, Albert Camus
- The Forgotten Plague, Frank Ryan, MD
- The Coming Plague, by Laurie Garrett
- The Malaria Capers, Tales of Parasites and People, Dr. Robert Desowitz
Travel Medicine
- International Travel Guide, 8th ed. Rose, Stuart
- Travel & Tropical Medicine Manual, E. Jong, R. McMullen (UW Faculty)
- Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness and Travel Medicine, Eric A. Weiss, et al
- Blackwell’s Primary Care Essentials: Travel Medicine, Robert P. Smith
- Colour Guide-Travel Medicine, Eric Walker
- International Travel and Health: Vaccination, Requirements, and Health Advice: Situation as on 1 January 2000, WHO
- Manual of Travel Medicine and Health, Robert Steffen
- Principles of Travel Medicine, Jane N. Zucherman
Foreign Literature
- I Will Marry When I Want, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Weep Not, Child, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, Nawaal El Saadawi