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  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • GHI Faculty
  • GHI Funded Projects
  • Resources
  • Education
    • Global Health Week at Children’s National
    • Pediatric Resident Global Health Curriculum and Pathway
    • Regional and National Global Health Conferences
    • Global Health Special Interest Group (SIG)
  • Events
  • Contact

Resources

Home Resources

Preparation for Overseas Work

Health and Safety when doing your elective abroad (DOC)
Suggested Packing List (DOC)
CDC Traveler’s Health
WHO International Travel and Health Handbook 2010
AMSA Toolkit for Going Abroad
AAP Section on International Child Health

Resources to Learn About Your Destination Country

Library of Congress Country Studies
U.S. State Department
Population Reference Bureau
World Population Data 2016
CIA World Fact Book
World Health Organization
UNICEF Country Statistics
Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Yellow Book

Additional Resources

Hinari Programme- Set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Up to 15,000 journals (in 30 different languages), up to 47,000 e-books, up to 100 other information resources are now available to health institutions in more than 100 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improve world health.

http://www.who.int/hinari/en/

Health Information for All– Every person and every health worker will have access to the healthcare information they need to protect their own health and the health of those for whom they are responsible.

https://dgroups.org/hifa

Children’s National Resources

CNHS Occupational Health Forms

CNHS Legal Forms – (Coming Soon)

Funding Resources

Funding Resources

About Us

The Global Health Initiative is located at Children’s National Health System in Washington DC. Our Mission is to address the health needs of children and adolescents in our global community through high quality, collaborative research and mutual education.

111 MICHIGAN AV NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20010

202-476-6887

globalhealth@childrensnational.org

News

  • Global Health Special Interest Group (SIG)
  • Regional and National Global Health Conferences
  • Pediatric Resident Global Health Curriculum and Pathway
  • Introduction to Global Child Health Elective
  • 2016-17 Grant Recipients