Links

LINKS

African Population and Health Research Centre
The Center’s mission is to promote the well-being of Africans through policy-relevant research on population and health.
www.aphrc.org

Alliance to Promote Equity in Health in Peru
www.aes.org.pe

Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh
The fundamental mission of the Centre is to develop and disseminate solutions to major health and population problems facing the world, with emphasis on simple and cost-effective methods of prevention and management
www.icddrb.org

Equinet - The Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
Is a network of research, civil society and health sector organisations. Equinet seeks to develop and widen the conceptual understanding of equity in health, Equinet identifies critical areas of work and policy issues and makes visible existing unfair and avoidable inequalities in health. Equinet's main aim is to build alliances leading to positive policies on health both the local and regional levels. This is achieved by disseminating information and stimulating an informed debate on equity in health in southern Africa.
www.equinetafrica.org

The International Society for Equity in Health
The purpose for which ISEqH was formed is to promote equity in health and health services internationally through education, research, publication, communication and charitable support. The specific purposes of ISEqH are to promote equity and expose inequity in health and in health care services internationally; to facilitate scientific interchange of, and disseminate conceptual and methodological knowledge on issues related to equity in health and health care services; to advance research related to equity in health; and to maintain corresponding relationship with other relevant international and regional organizations
www.iseqh.org

Pan American Health Organisation Equity Listserve Archives
This electronic discussion group of the Division of Health and Human Development (HDP) of the Pan American Health organization is a listserv to disseminate information relevant to any individual or organization working on Equity, Health and Human Development. EQUIDAD list distributes information on new documents, reports, projects and results, upcoming conferences or meetings, handouts, bibliographies, listings of new sources, library catalogues and archives, internet resources, and datasets on themes such as research, public policies, health legislation, democracy, governance, health determinants, health economics, sociology, poverty, ethics, and gender equity.
www.paho.org/English/HDP/equidad-list-about.htm

Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC)
Provides training, information, research and capacity support on areas of public health, social policy, food security, social protection, social and economic rights, reproductive, gender and child rights and on civic-state relations.
www.tarsc.org

GAUGE-PARTICIPANT SITES
These are websites run by the institutions involved in the Equity Gauges

Medact is a health professionals organisation challenging barriers to health. They highlight the health impacts of violent conflict, poverty and environmental degradation, and with others act to eradicate them. Medact is developing a clearing-house on global economic policies and health.
Peoples' Health Assembly - "to re-establish health and equitable development as top priorities in local, national and international policy-making, with primary health care being the strategy to achieve these priorities. The Assembly aims to draw on and support people's movements in their struggles to build long-term and sustainable solutions to health problems"
http://www.medact.org

Global Forum for Health Research Promoting research to improve the health of poor people. The Global Forum for Health Research is an international foundation managed by a Foundation Council, representing the partners of the Global Forum, assisted by a Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee. Less than 10% of the global spending on health research (US$56 billion per year in 1992) is devoted to diseases or conditions that account for 90% of the global disease burden. The human and economic costs of such misallocation of resources are enormous. The central objective of the Global Forum for Health Research is to help correct the 10/90 gap and focus research efforts on the health problems of the poor by improving the allocation of research funds and by facilitating collaboration among partners in both the public and private sectors.
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/pages/index.asp

Healthlink Worldwide works in partnership with organisations in developing countries to improve the health and well-being of poor and vulnerable communities by strengthening the provision, use and impact of information.
http://www.healthlink.org.uk/

Health, Population, and Nutrition Group The World Bank's Health, Population, and Nutrition Group supports effective health, nutrition, and reproductive health and services, in helping countries break out of the vicious circle of poverty.

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Centre for Population Studies is an interdisciplinary unit that has active programs of research on both the developed and developing world. The foci of developed world research are demography and health, families' and children's experience of demographic change, and social gerontology. The major themes of the Centre's overseas research comprise reproductive health research, including both strategic and more operational issues connected with family planning programmes; the measurement and explanation of fertility transition; and the modelling of demographic change, including aspects of the AIDS epidemic. The Centre has particularly strong regional interests and collaborative links in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia but is also engaged in research in other parts of the world.
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/eph/cps/cpsresearch.htm