LibGuides: MPH 530.001: Global Public Health Challenges: MPH 530: Required and Supplemental Reading & Resources

Required Readings

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war, and the creation of the United Nations, the international community vowed never again to allow atrocities like those of that conflict happen again. World leaders decided to complement the UN Charter with a road map to guarantee the rights of every individual everywhere.
MDGs: Progress made in health
Beyond the Millennium Development Goals: The Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
MDG Monitor (2016) - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Global Health 101 (Third Edition) by Richard Skolnik
Call Number: RESERVE COPY AVAILABLE at Library Circulation Desk 5th Floor
ISBN: 9781284050547
Publication Date: 2016

Global Health Resources

CDC - Chain of Infection
CDC - Conditions & Diseases
CDC Global Health
CDC leverages its core strengths to advance four overarching global health goals: 1) improving the health and well-being of people around the world, 2) improving capabilities for preparing for and responding to infectious diseases and emerging health threats, 3) building country public health capacity, and 4) maximizing organizational capacity.
UN Women
UN Women, among other issues, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; empowerment of women; and achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Global Health Services Division
Nearly all HHS agencies have some global health engagement. Its international engagement has increased over the past two decades due to globalization and significant U.S. investments in global health.
Global Health 2035: A World Converging Within a Generation
Report by an independent commission of 25 renowned economists and global health experts from around the world who came together from December 2012 to July 2013 to revisit the case for health investment.
The World Bank - Global Health
World Health Organization
UNICEF - United Nations Childrens Fund
UNICEF upholds the Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF works to assure equality for those who are discriminated against, girls and women in particular. UNICEF works for the Millennium Development Goals and for the progress promised in the United Nations Charter. We strive for peace and security. UNICEF works to hold everyone accountable to the promises made for children.

UNICEF is part of the Global Movement for Children – a broad coalition dedicated to improving the life of every child. Through this movement, and events such as the United Nations Special Session on Children, they encourage young people to speak out and participate in the decisions that affect their lives.

UNICEF is active in more than 190 countries and territories through country programmes and National Committees.
WHO - Immunizations, Vaccines, & Biologicals
Global Immunization News

Vulnerable Groups

Vulnerable Groups (UN)
Children, pregnant women, elderly people, malnourished people, and people who are ill or immunocompromised, are particularly vulnerable when a disaster strikes, and take a relatively high share of the disease burden associated with emergencies. Poverty – and its common consequences such as malnutrition, homelessness, poor housing and destitution – is a major contributor to vulnerability.
PubMed Search - Vulnerable groups and Public Health

Health Information in Multiple Languages

Health Information in Multiple Languages
Consumer Health Information in Many Languages
EthnoMed
EthnoMed is Harborview Medical Center's ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups. Information is specific to groups in the Seattle area, but much of the cultural and health information is of interest and applicable in other geographic areas. EthnoMed is a joint program of the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries and Harborview Medical Center's Interpreter Services Department/Community House Calls Program (ISD/CHC).

Recommended Books on Global Health

Student Resources for Skolnik's Global Health 101 (Third Edition) includes:

Crossword puzzles
Interactive flashcards
Interactive glossary
Matching questions
Model policy briefs
Video list
Student study questions

Kristof, N. D. (2010). Half the sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide. Vintage Books, Random House, New York.

UN-DPI (2014). Basic facts about the United Nations. United Nations Publications, New York.

Core Public Health Journals in Environmental Health

Recommended Journals for this Class

Lancet Infectious Diseases

New England Journal of Medicine

Global Public Health

International Journal of Health Promotion and Education

Journal of Health Communication - International Perspective

Health Care for Women International

Essential Core

Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Critical Public Health

Ethnicity & Disease

Ethnicity and Health

Health Policy and Planning

Health, Risk & Society

International Family Planning Perspectives

International Journal of Epidemiology

International Journal of Global Health and Health Disparities

Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition

Journal of Public Health Policy

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Rural and Remote Health

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

Tropical Doctor

Tropical Medicine & International Health

Research Level Core

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Acta Tropica

African Journal of Reproductive Health

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Asia-Pacific Population Journal

Asian Population Studies

BMJ (International Edition)

Cadernos de Saude Publica (Reports in Public Health)

Central European Journal of Public Health

Culture, Health and Sexuality

East African Medical Journal

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Ethiopian Journal of Health Development

European Journal of Population, Revue Europeenne de Demographie

European Journal of Public Health

Health & Science Bulletin (Bangladesh)

Health Care for Women International

Health Expectations

Health Promotion International

International Journal for Equity in Health

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics

International Journal of Health Planning and Management

International Journal of Health Services

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

International Journal of Prisoner Health

International Journal of STD and AIDS

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

International Migration Review

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Journal of Travel Medicine

Malaria Journal

Medical Anthropology

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

National Medical Journal of India

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Population and Development Review

Reproductive Health Matters

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica (Pan American Journal of Public Health)

Revue D'epidemiologie et de Sante Publique

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Social Science and Medicine

Source: Core Public Health Journals Project, Public Health/Health Administration Section, Medical Library Association

Paul Farmer

Books by Dr. Paul Farmer

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, 1993, 2006 edition: ISBN 978-0-520-08343-1
The Uses of Haiti, Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994, 2003, 2005 edition: ISBN 978-1-56751-242-7
¿Haití para qué?, Hondarribia, Spain: HIRU Argitaletxea, 1994
Sida en Haїti: La Victime accusée, Paris: Editions Karthala, 1996
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, revised 2001 edition: ISBN 978-0-520-22913-6
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 2005 edition: ISBN 978-0-520-24326-2
Global Health in Times of Violence, co-edited with Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Linda Whiteford, School for Advanced Research Press, 2009 edition: ISBN 978-1-934691-14-4
Women, Poverty & AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence (Series in Health and Social Justice), with coauthor Margaret Connors, Common Courage Press; Reprint edition (September 1996), ISBN 978-1-56751-074-4
Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader. Ed. Haun Saussy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0520257139
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0520275973
In the Company of the Poor: conversations between Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez. Ed. Michael Griffin and Jennie Weiss Block. Orbis Books, 2013: ISBN 978-1626980501
Reimagining Global Health, Paul Farmer (Editor), Arthur Kleinman (Editor), Jim Kim (Editor), Matthew Basilico (Editor), University of California Press, ISBN: 9780520271999, 2013

The LIU Brooklyn Library owns 2 books on this list; however, the other titles can be ordered through our interlibrary loan service.

Who is Dr. Paul Farmer?

Academic & Non-governmental Organizations

American Red Cross - International Services
Helping vulnerable communities around the globe.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Global Health Division
Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. They work with partners to deliver proven tools—including vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics—as well as discover pathbreaking new solutions that are affordable and reliable. Equally important is innovation in how they bring health interventions to those who need them most. They invest heavily in vaccines to prevent infectious diseases—including HIV, polio, and malaria—and support the development of integrated health solutions for family planning, nutrition, and maternal and child health.
Center for Global Health - University of Chicago
The Center for Global Health (CGH) is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to improving health and well-being through education, research and training, and service in partnership with communities in the United States and around the world.
Clinton Foundation - Global Health
Working closely with governments and other partners, the Foundation aims to strengthen in-country health systems and improve global markets for medicines and diagnostics – ensuring lifesaving treatments and care can reach the people who need them the most. Their goal is to transform these systems and ensure they develop into self-sustaining methods of providing low-cost, high-quality care.
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
The mission of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health is to help build interdisciplinary collaborations and facilitate the sharing of knowledge to address global health challenges. It assists members in sharing their expertise across education, research, and service. It is dedicated to creating equity and reducing health disparities everywhere.
Doctors Without Borders
Their medical teams in the field provide services that range from basic vaccination campaigns, to maternal and pediatric care, to fighting neglected diseases, to complex surgery. MSF also advocates for affordable, high-quality medicines for the world's poorest people.
GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance
Created in 2000, Gavi is an international organisation - a global Vaccine Alliance, bringing together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries.
International Union for Health Promotion and Education
The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) is a unique worldwide, independent and professional association of individuals and organisations committed to improving the health and wellbeing of the people through education, community action and the development of healthy public policy.
The vision of the IUHPE is a world where all people achieve optimum health and wellbeing.
Partners in Health
The mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair.

Grey Literature Resources

Directions in Global Health

Publicaton of PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health). PATH is a headquarters with a state-of-the-art laboratory and product development shop in Seattle’s emerging center for global health, the South Lake Union neighborhood. PATH now employs hundreds of people around the globe, and their work reaches more than 70 countries and touches on every major global health issue.

Global Health Technical Briefs

These tech briefs summarized the most important information on a timely reproductive health topic in two pages, and pinpointed the implications for public health programs. Each brief included background/definition of the topic, important recent findings or lessons learned in program application, implications for programs, and where to get more information.

Infectious Disease News

Infectious Disease News strives to be the global, definitive information source for ID professionals by delivering timely, accurate, authoritative and balanced reports on clinical issues, socioeconomic topics and industry developments, as well as presenting clinically relevant information on medical therapies for the benefit of the patient.

NIH Global Health Research Reports and News

The 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs) at the NIH are engaged in global health research and research training activities. Access the latest NIH global health research information and news.

Network (Family Health International)

FHI is a non-profit organization that works to improve reproductive health around the world, with an emphasis on the developing world. FHI is committed to helping women and men have access to safe, effective, acceptable and affordable family planning methods to help them achieve their desired number and spacing of children, to prevent the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and to improve the health of women and children.

PAHO Today - the Newsletter of the Pan American Health Organization

Founded in 1902, PAHO is the world’s oldest international public health agency. It provides technical cooperation and mobilizes partnerships to improve health and quality of life in the countries of the Americas.

Population Reports

Tropical Disease Research News

Weekly Epidemiological Record

WHO Drug Information

World Health Report

Global Health Policy and Research

Center for Global Development
CGD conducts research and analysis on a wide range of topics related to how policies and actions of the rich and powerful affect poor people in the developing world. Examples include aid effectiveness, climate change, education, globalization, health, migration and trade.
Global Health Policy Center - Kaiser Family Foundation
Kaiser is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own policy analysis, journalism and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with major news organizations.
international Health Policy Center - Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.
Smart Global Health
SmartGlobalHealth.org is the website for the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. The Global Health Policy Center is a leading policy research institution focused on building bipartisan awareness about global health and its importance to U.S. national security.
The Wilson Center and Global Health
Vision Statement

The Wilson Center seeks to be the leading institution for in-depth research and dialogue to inform actionable ideas on global issues.
Mission Statement

The Wilson Center, chartered by Congress as the official memorial to President Woodrow Wilson, is the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for Congress, the Administration and the broader policy community.

Global Health Data & Statistics

Demographic & Health Surveys
The Demographic and Health Surveys program collects, analyzes and disseminates accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 200 surveys in over 75 countries. (MEASURE DHS)
European Health for All Databases
Contains data on about 600 health indicators for Member States of the WHO European Region, including basic demographic and socioeconomic indicators; lifestyle- and environment-related indicators; mortality, morbidity and disability; hospital discharges; and health care resources, utilization and expenditure. The database is a helpful tool for international comparison and for assessing the health situation and trends in any European country in an international context. (World Health Organization (WHO))
Gloabl Health & Human Rights Database
International database of judgments, instruments, and constitutions involving health and human rights from around the world. (Georgetown University)
Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
Catalog for demographic, public health and global health data. Use the GHDx to research population census data, surveys, registries, indicators and estimates, administrative health data, and financial data related to health. (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington)
Global Health Facts
Global data on HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses. (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF))
Global Health Observatory (GHO)
WHO's gateway to health-related statistics from around the world. GHO covers global health priorities such as the health-related Millennium Development Goals, women and health, mortality and burden of disease, disease outbreaks, health equity, and health systems. (World Health Organization (WHO))
Health, Nutrition and Population Data and Statistics
This database contains international statistics for 250 indicators dealing with areas such as: health financing, HIV/AIDS, immunization, malaria and tuberculosis, health workforce and health facilities use, nutrition, reproductive health, population and population projections, cause of death, non-communicable diseases, water and sanitation, with background information on poverty, labor force, economy and education. (World Bank)
PAHO Health Data
Health data and statistics for countries of the Americas. (Pan American Health Organization (PAHO))
The World Fact Book
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. (Central Intelligence Agency (CIA))