PBHL3170: Popular Literature in Public Health: Global Health

CDC's Center for Global Health coordinates and manages the agency's resources and expertise to address global challenges such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, emergency and refugee health, non-communicable diseases, injuries, and more.

The organization is the collaborative voice of the global health community on global health issues; it convenes stakeholders around key global health priorities and actively engages key decision makers to influence health policy.

This Medline overview to global health provides links to articles and other publications and many online resources and tools.

A unit of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Fogarty supports basic, clinical and applied research and training for U.S. and foreign investigators working in the developing world.

A division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Global Health Affairs promotes the health and well-being of Americans and of the world’s population by advancing global strategies and partnerships and working with other agencies in the coordination of global health policy.

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.