Links

I maintain a link-roll of websites for global health / anesthesia education over at our organization’s website.

African Lens – We seek to tell the story of Africa through visual elements which captures the essence of our everyday lives.

AidData.org | Tracking Development Finance – A new way to explore development finance. Our goal is to create a comprehensive and up-to-date data portal that is easy to navigate for users of all stripes.

Anesthesiology Network – Aspires to connect anesthesiologists worldwide through the passion for our specialty.

Beall’s List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers – This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers (curated by Jeffrey Beall, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver).

Copenhagen Consensus Guide to Giving – This Guide presents research on the solutions that the 2008 Copenhagen Consensus Nobel Laureate Expert Panel highly recommended.

Essential Surgery – To promote in a sustainable manner the effective provision of basic, essential, and low-cost surgical care that saves lives and prevents serious disability or life-threatening complications in poorly-resourced settings where there is most need. 

Gapminder – For a fact-based world view.

GiveWell – Charity Reviews and Recommendations.

Global Forum for Health Research – A non-governmental organization committed to research and innovation for health.

Global Health Corps
 – Provides opportunities for young professionals from diverse backgrounds to work on the front-lines of the fight for global health equity in year-long fellowships.

Global Health Delivery Case Studies – A growing set of Harvard Business School-style teaching case studies, each with an accompanying teaching note, designed to educate current and future managers on how programs, governments, and enterprises determine their strategies and design systems to meet the needs of patients and populations.

Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) – A consortium of faculty and health care educators dedicated to global health education in health professions schools and residency programs.

GHEC Global Health Learning Modules.

Global Health Initiative – The University of Utah – The Global Health Initiative is creating sustainable health improvements through local partnerships focused on capacity building, exchange of education and advancing the science of global health practice.

Global Issues. – This site presents numerous global issues, aiming to show how they are inter-related.

Global Voices Online – An international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world.

Good Intentions Are Not Enough – Good intentions are not enough for aid to be successful. If aid is done poorly it can hurt the very people it is supposed to help. This website provides readers with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to ensure that their donations match their good intentions.

Guidelines for Volunteering Overseas – With the debate raging over poverty tourism, disaster tourism and voluntourism, it might be a good time to develop guidelines for useful and appropriate overseas volunteer work.

How to Write about Africa – Brilliant satire.

IfItWereMyHome.com – Your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another.

International Anesthesia Education Forum – The website of a group of anesthesiologists providing free anesthesiology review courses for anesthesia-providers in medically-underserved regions of the world.

International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research – A not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping build capacity for cancer research and treatment in developing countries.

Internet Journal of Third World Medicine – A peer-reviewed journal.

LifeNet – Free, open source software, which enables consumer-devices like laptops, android phones and battery-powered routers to instantly form an ad hoc WiFi network without any infrastructure like towers / base stations. It is ideal for providing connectivity in areas where communication infrastructure is destroyed or does not exist.

NationMaster – World Statistics, Country Comparisons – A massive central data source (from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD) – a handy way to graphically compare nations. 

One Bag – The Art and Science of traveling light.

Oxfam America Foreign Aid 101 – A nice basic guide to “foreign aid”.

Peace Dividend Trust
 – A unique non-profit organization dedicated to making humanitarian operations more effective, efficient and equitable so that they deliver cheaper, faster, smarter missions.

Population Reference Bureau – Informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations.

Publish What You Fund | The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency – Aid is a precious resource, but to get the most out of it we need more and better aid information.Working with organisations from around the world, we call on donors to publish what they fund.

See Africa Differently – Africa is 54 diverse countries filled with people working to bring about positive changes. Our site is going to showcase exciting news, videos and personal stories from the world’s second largest continent.

Surgeons Overseas – Started in 2007 by surgeons interested in promoting international humanitarian surgery and assisting medical facilities and professionals in addressing unmet surgical needs in developing countries.

Sparked.com – This group tries to match volunteers with skills to projects that need those skills.

TinySpark – Igniting Debate about the Business of Doing Good.

The true size of Africa – This single image tries to impart in an interesting way the massive scale of this continent.

Turning The World Upside Down. – Knowledge transfer is two way. Innovation is two way.

University of Utah Global Health Alliance – A network of faculty, students and staff that provides medical humanitarian education and outreach for sustainable health care in targeted countries.

The UN Millennium Declaration – In 2000, 189 nations came together and made a promise to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015. (Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than a dollar a day). This promise led to the Millennium Declaration – a document outlining 8 specific goals to help the world realize this promise.

The Virtual Doctor Project – Using mobile broadband networks, we connect African clinic staff in rural areas with doctors and specialists all over the world to assist with the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

WHO Integrated Management for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (IMEESC) tool kit – This contains WHO recommendations for minimum standards in emergency, surgery, trauma, obstetrics and anaesthesia at first-referral level health-care facilities.

Worldmapper – A collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized according to the subject of interest.

Worldometers – World statistics updated in real-time.