Public Health Ethics, Advocacy and Leadership: Web Sites

"WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable."

GHO is the World Health Organization's (WHO) portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The GHO presents data from all WHO programmes and provides links to supporting information.

GHC's mission is "to use the power of the collective voice to improve global health and wellbeing through informed investments and policies."

Offers information about a variety of different health programs including communicable diseases, reproductive health, and sexually transmitted infections.

OHA's mission is to help "people and communities achieve optimum physical, mental and social well-being through partnerships, prevention and access to quality, affordable health care."

The purpose of this site is "to make information about culture, language, health, illness and community resources directly accessible to health care providers who see patients from different ethnic groups. 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)."

"The MHL is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries." MHL "promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine." The collection includes digitized rare medical books, pamphlets, journals, and films; it offers materials representing the past six centuries.

"CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same."

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives."

"NIMHD’s mission is to lead scientific research to improve minority health and reduce health disparities."

"APHA champions the health of all people and all communities. We strengthen the public health profession. We speak out for public health issues and policies backed by science. We are the only organization that combines a nearly 150-year perspective, a broad-based member community and the ability to influence federal policy to improve the public's health."

"ASPPH is the voice of accredited academic public health, representing schools and programs accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)."

Good resource for quickly finding websites for counties across the U.S.

OPHA's mission is "to provide learning opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community" and "to advocate for policies that protect and promote the health of all Oregonians."