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Information and Education

Online Resources

• Alma Mata Global Health Network: News, education, research and careers in international health.
• American Society of Tropical Medicine & Travelers' Health: Information on education and training and slides, videos and news on funding and fellowships. Includes pictorial presentation of parasites.
• Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative: Baylor AIDS curriculum provides educational modules on HIV/AIDS in adults and children.
• COTS Program: Teaching program on management of diarrheal illnesses, specifically cholera.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health and safety topics such as traveler's health, diseases and conditions and environmental health.
• Eldis: Provides more than 22,000 summarized documents from over 4,500 development organizations - all available free to download.
• GHD Online: Improving health care delivery through global collaboration
• Global Health eLearning Center: USAID Global Health e-Learning Center with internet-based courses about key global health and development issues.
• Global Health Council: Consortium of institutions and organizations dedicated to global health issues. The site provides access to global health news and educational resources including downloads form their annual conference.
• Global Health Education Consortium: Provides education and training modules and materials.
• Global Health Hub: Updates on global health and development.
• Global Health TV: Provides good documentaries on various global health topics.
• Harvard School of Public Health: Includes profiles of faculty with research in various aspects of global health.
• Harvard Worldwide: A portal exploring Harvard's worldwide activities and a good resource for country-specific mentors/projects.
• Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: Some of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health's most popular courses are available at the OpenCourseWare (OCW) project.
• Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders): Reference books and guidelines for practicing medicine in resource limited settings.
• People in Aid: Guides to develop and manage teams in emergencies.
• Swansea with University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria: Five e-Learning courses.
• The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine: Contains cases to work through online.
• Tufts Open Course Ware: Course on epidemiology and biostatistics.
• University of North Carolina, "Nutrition in Medicine" series: An impressive, high-end web-based teaching module with Flash macromedia, including audio, streaming video and interactive quizzes.
• World Health Organization: Extensive information and resources, including:
  • Child and adolescent health information
  • Sexual and reproductive health: Syndromic management of STIs guidelines
  • WHO TB Epidemiology and Surveillance Virtual Workshop: TB control tools

Books

Medical Books

• Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Mosby - great pictures, both manifestations and diagnostics with strong emphasis on disease-specific public health
• Clinical Problems in Tropical Medicine, W.B. Saunders - a collection of cases 
• Lecture Notes in Tropical Medicine, Wiley Blackwell - excellent overview of tropical medicine
• Manson's Tropical Diseases, Saunders Ltd - standard book on Tropical Medicine
• Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine, Oxford University Press - short handbook
• Principles of Medicine in Africa, Cambridge University Press - standard book on Tropical Medicine
• Refugee and Immigrant Health: A Handbook for Health Professionals, Cambridge University Press
• Where there is no doctor, Macmillan Education - illustrates what can be taught to people without medical training

Non-Medical Books

Please note: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center does not support or endorse the political views presented in these books.

• Louis Braile, We Shared the Peeled Orange
• Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
• T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain
• K.A. Culhane-Pera, Healing by Heart
• William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill, and So Little Good
• A. Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• Aminatta Forna, The Devil that Danced on the Water
• Donna Gehrke-White, The Face Behind the Veil: The Extraordinary Lives of Muslim Women in America
• Peter Godwin, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
• Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
• Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rawanda
• Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
• Ryzard Kapuscinski, The Shadow of the Sun
• Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
• Ruth Levine; Molly Kinder, Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health
• Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
• Scott Peterson, Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda
• Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time