Global Health Toolkit

• WHO: Global Health Observatory Data Repository
  Guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from World Health Organization.

• Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks
  Research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.
• Open Think Tank Directory
  Global collection of think tanks and related organizations.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global 
  Index to dissertations and theses 1861-present, with full text available 1997-present.
• Dissertations and Theses at UW
  Access dissertations and theses from the UW and around the world.
• Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019 
  Primary sources chronicling feminist activism in developing countries.
• Women and Social Movements, International, 1840-Present
  Primary materials of women activists including personal letters, diaries, and conference proceedings of important international social movements.

• Statistics Sources: Health Sciences
  UW HSL guide to sources for local, state, national and international statistics and data in the field of health sciences.
• Federal data: alternative access
  UW Libraries guide with alternative access points for federal data that has been removed from official sources.
• Statistical Abstracts of the World
  Global, regional, and country-level data of the world.
• Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
  IHME catalog of world's health and demographic datasets. Locate data providers, and search and download publicly available datasets.
• WHO: Global Health Observatory Data Repository
  Guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from World Health Organization.
• Global Financial Data
  Economic and financial data covering 150 countries and 6,500 different data series.

• Global Impact - USAIDStopWork
  Tracking impact of USAID global health funding cuts to HIV/AIDS, TB, Nutrition, Malaria, MCH and Family Planning & Reproductive Health
• Malaria Atlas Project
  Funded principally by the Wellcome Trust.
• HealthMap
  Global disease alert interactive map. Children's Hospital Informatics Program. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology.

• Citation Management Tools Research Guide
  Guides to citation tools, including scheduling consultations.
• Systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis projects
  Tools and advice for conducting systematic reviews.

• Grant Resources
  Starting points for funding databases, grant sources, and grant writing. 
• UW School of Public Health Job Listings
  Public Health Jobs and Fellowships approved by a moderator.
• APHA CareerMart
  Career guidance and job postings by the American Public Health Association (APHA).
• PublicHealth Career Guide
  List of public health fields and careers.
• CDC Health Department Directories
  Directory of U.S. health departments.
• Washington State Local Health Departments and Districts
  Find your local department of health in Washington State.

• Health Sciences Online
  A comprehensive collection of free top-quality courses and full text materials in the health sciences. Produced at U BC.
• Gorgas Courses in Clinical Tropical Medicine
• Health Information Resources for Developing Countries
• JAMA Global Health Collection
• Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy
• Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
  Repository of free lectures. Project produced at WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh.

• Department of Global Health
• UW Office of Global Affairs
• UW Global Operations Support
• GlobalHealth.gov
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Global Health Affairs.
• UW Global Anesthesia INitiative (UW-GAIN)

Nikki Dettmar, MSIS, MS

Public Health and Research Services Librarian

snydern@uw.edu

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