International Health Section
One of the larger member sections in the organization, the International Health Section (IH) had 1,430 members in 2009. IH members are professionals who are engaged in international health either through avocations or vocations and they comprise a pool of expertise in the field that covers a full range of international health activities. Read more about the section and its history (PDF). |
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New Book: Textbook of International Health - This excellent text brings together information that students and professionals working in the wide variety of disciplines concerned with international health will find in no other single source. More information at Oxford University Press.
Report: National Intelligence Estimate: Strategic Implications of Global Health. The National Intelligence Council, January 2009. [PDF]
Resource: Supercourse Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health. The Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world. The Supercourse has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh.
Recommended: State of World Population 2008. Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights, and its youth supplement, Generation of Change: Young People and Culture.
Recommended: The World Health Report 2008: Primary Health Care – Now More Than Ever.
Book: Paul Drain, graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, has authored a new book, "Caring for the World: A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities". Get the book U.of Toronto Press or at Amazon. Flyer & discount.
New career opportunity in international public health: Peace Corps Master's International program. Read more here....
DataDyne.org creates groundbreaking mobile data products to serve healthcare in developing countries. Read UN Foundation interview.
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Read the latest: About Community-based PHC from the 2008 Workshop.
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has a program for a Masters of Sciences in Global Health Sciences degree. Read more here.
Gates Foundation, Leadership Opportunity, Global Health Financing & Policy Development.
Exciting MPH degree opportunity for Asia Pacific Rim region.
Other Job Announcements.
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Save the dates: 2009 Section meetings & minutes; mid-year meeting May 28 at the GHC.
Updated: Global Health Connections Committee meeting notes, reports and action plans.
It has been a very active year for the IH Section! Read the Section's 2008 Annual Report here.
New: IH Section Newsletter Fall 2008
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High resolution (PDF).
Liaisons from other Sections to the IH Section (xls).
Read how the IH Section works in the IH Section Manual.
Read Publications by IH section members . |
Become an IH Section Member and Participate:
Photo Credits for photos used in banner: (c) 1999 Caroline Jacoby, Courtesy of Photoshare with the caption a child receiving polio drops from Female Community Health Volunteer, Kalawatee Joshi, during National Polio Eradication Campaign. (c) 1999 Luke Mwanza/CCP, Courtesy of Photoshare with the caption a woman in Zambia uses a bednet to prevent malaria during pregnancy.
Last updated: 6/2/2009
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