Resources

International Health Resources at UNC

UNC Center for Global Intitiatives

Website: http://gi.unc.edu

• Faculty Expertise Database
• International Internship Database - Database of past UNC students' (undergrads and grads) experiences abroad
• UNC Global Gateway - Informational website about international programs, funding, and more resources for students

Office of Global Health (School of Public Health)

Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/globalhealth phone: 966-3564
Email: ogh@unc.edu
Associate Dean for Global Health - Margaret E. Bentley, PhD (pbentley@unc.edu)
Director - Gretchen Van Vliet (Gretchen_vanvliet@unc.edu)
Co-Chairs for 2009-2010: Daniel Cothran (dcothran@email.unc.edu) and Juliana Thornton (thornjm@email.unc.edu)

• Broad based resource in the School of Public Health to promote global health and consolidate information and resources - sponsor seminars with excellent outside speakers.
• Online information about international public health opportunities - jobs and internships (http://www.sph.unc.edu/ogh/students/).
• Global Health Certificate available to all UNC public health students. The OGH website has information for enrolling.

Student Global Health Committee (School of Public Health students)

Website: http://studentorgs.unc.edu/sghc/
ListServ: subglobalhealth@listserve.unc.edu

• Student-run group from all seven departments in the SPH. 2006-07 Student Global Health Committee Co-Chairs: Jessica Luginbuhl (jcloginb@email.unc.edu) and Janna McDougall (jmcdoug@email.unc.edu) .

International Health Forum (School of Medicine students)

Website: http://www.med.unc.edu/ihf
Faculty advisor: Martha Carlough (Martha_carlough@med.unc.edu)

• Student run group from the medical school with a vision of expanding international health interest and opportunities in the medical school. Have on-line resources for electives, sponsor lectures, hunger lunches and fund-raising for appropriate international programs.
• UNC Medical Faculty involved in international health electives who may be helpful to contact:
  
  • Department of Social Medicine - Gail Henderson (ghenders@med.unc.edu) and Alan Cross (across@unc.edu)
  • Department of Family Medicine - Beat Steiner (beat_steiner@med.unc.edu), Martha Carlough (Martha_carlough@med.unc.edu), Lisa Slatt (lisa_slatt@med.unc.edu)
  • Department of Internal Medicine - Marco Aleman (marco_aleman@med.unc.edu)

CAMPOS Medical Student Spanish program

(Lisa Slatt, Beat Steiner, Dan Reuland & Marco Aleman)

Honduran Health Alliance program

(Beat Steiner, Pam Frasier, Lisa Slatt)

Intrahealth International, Inc.

(Affiliate office of UNC School of Medicine)
Website: www.intrah.org
Email: intrahealth@intrahealth.org
Director: Pape Gaye, PhD (pgaye@intrahealth.org)
Safe Motherhood Clinical Advisor: Martha Carlough (mcarlough@intrahealth.org)
HIV/AIDS Clinical Advisor: Shannon Galvin (sgalvin@intrahealth.org)

• Non-profit organization affiliated with UNC and committed to global health research and training, particularly in reproductive health issues.

Other Helpful Resources

Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC)

Website: http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/
Email: info@globalhealth-ec.org

• GHEC (formerly IHMEC) is a consortium of faculty and health care educators dedicated to international health education in U.S. and Canadian medical schools and residency programs. Useful information on funding sources, elective opportunities, international health resources, etc.

American Medical Student Association (AMSA) International Health Website

Website: http://www.amsa.org/global/ih/index.cfm

• The AMSA international health website has an enormous amount of information about international health in medical education issues, including resource lists, medical school curricula, funding possibilities, info on residencies with international health tracks, and "bringing international health home" ideas.
• "Where in the World," Dr. Bret Nicks, information on overseas medical opportunities, 2000: http://www.amsa.org/pdf/World.PDF

American Medical Association Medical Student Section

International and Health Policy (IHP) Committee

• The AMA-MSS created a comprehensive database of international health opportunities and resources. The AMA-Resident and Fellow Section also compiled electives and opportunities abroad for students and residents.

World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)

Website: www.globalfamilydoctor.com
Email: admin@wonca.com.sg

• International organization of family medicine committed to making medical education and practice more relevant to people's needs internationally. Global Family Doctor journal alerts listserv, on line resources, etc.

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) International Activities Office

Website: http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/aboutus/specialty/international.html
Email contacts:
Daniel Ostergaard, MD - VP of International Activities (dosterga@aafp.org)
Spencer Stith, MDiv - manager (sstith@aafp.org)
Terry Smalley - Senior Program Coordinator (tsmalley@aafp.org)

• Relatively new initiative of the AAFP to coordinate/support international health work in AAFP, particularly consultation roles in the development of family medicine internationally (known as the Center for International Health Initiatives or CIHI)

American Academy of Pediatrics

International Child Health - Funding an International Health Elective http://www.aap.org/sections/ich/resfunding.htm

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)

Website: www.stfm.org

• STFM also has a very active international health committee working on issues of international medical education.

International Federation of Medical Students' Association (IFMSA)

Website: www.ifmsa.org

The IFMSA also has a useful research exchange projects database that is useful for finding existing research projects overseas: www.ifmsa.net/public/searchredb.php

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals - Global Opportunities Tool

http://www.arhp.org/publications-and-resources/student-and-educator-resources/global-opportunities-tool

Institute for International Medicine (INMED)

Website: www.inmed.us

Doctors for Global Health

http://www.dghonline.org/

• Non-profit, non-affiliated organization working to improve health and human rights world-wide.

International Medical Volunteer Association

Website: www.imva.org

Christian Medical Fellowship - Healthserve (UK)

Website: www.healthserve.org/electives/preparing/medical_elective

University of Arizona - Global Health

Website: http://www.globalhealth.arizona.edu/

• Every July they offer a tuition-FREE preparatory course for medical students and others in health care fields who plan to work in a developing country. Detailed and updated information about the course, including the application form, can be found at http://www.globalhealth.arizona.edu/IHIndex.html

Keck School of Medicine Office for Global Health

Website: http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/school/offices/educational_affairs/global_health/index.html

• Information about international programs, preparation, student experiences

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (NJ) International Health Page

Website: http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/student_affairs/international/index.htm?id=2

• A good resource for international health projects, courses, funding

Documents

- How to Find and Select an International Medical Elective, S. Huffman, 2002.
- International Health: A Manual for Advisers and Students, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, (on-line version), 2000.
- A Student's Guide to International Health & Funding Guide, AMSA, 1993.
- UNC Student Health's Traveler's Diarrhea handout
- Introduction to COS Workbench and Funding Alerts (2007)
- Searching COS Funding Opportunities (2007)
- Searching InfoEd Sponsored Programs Information Network (InfoEd SPIN) Basics (2007) 

Presentations

- The Children of Leningradsky Project
- Funding for International Research and Study (2007)
- IHF Latin America Summer 2007 Trips (2007)
- IHF Non-Latin America Summer 2007 Trips (2007)
- Workshop on Funding for Global Health Research and Study (2007)