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WHO: Climate change and human health
This part of the WHO's website focuses on the links between climate change and health. One factsheet looks specifically at climate change and infectious disease: it examines the historical evidence for links between climate and vector-borne disease, outlines different models to forecast climatic...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Climate change and public health
The CDC's website on climate change and public health offers the background on why the spread of infectious disease is likely to change in the future. A special section on vector-borne diseases outlines how global warming could lead to the re-emergence of diseases such as dengue fever that have...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Climate change – Health and environmental effects
The EPA regulates the US government's environmental activities and enforces related legislation. As this website shows, it also undertakes research on the links between human health and the environment. Here the agency summarises some of the key research on climate change and health, including...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Centre on Global Change and Health
This LSHTM centre collaborates on projects with the WHO and is the hub for several projects on the health effects of climate change. There is little in the way of background information but the site distils the key points and offers summaries of its own research. One project looks at the global...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA)
The AMMA programme aims to study how the West African monsoon affects meningitis and malaria epidemics. While it focuses on one weather system, the climate factors it looks at can be generalised to other environments. For example, it examines how wind, dust, rainfall, temperature and humidity,...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Climate and Health Information Exchange (CHIEX)
CHIEX investigates how climate variability affects human health in the tropical Americas. It runs projects in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Venezuela, and focuses specifically on the spread of dengue fever and malaria in these countries. These projects have practical implications; for...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Climate Institute: Human health
The health gateway of the Climate Institute, which aims to help policymakers tackle climate change, has detailed notes on the resurgence of infectious diseases through global warming. These include vector-borne diseases spread through mosquitoes, ticks, triatomine bugs, sandflies and blackflies. It...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF)
The GHF's mission is to document the impact of climate change on humans, much of which is health-related. The website expands on the forum's key goal to raise awareness of "climate injustice", by which it means that the world's poor who cause "less than 1 per cent of global emissions, suffer 99 per...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Health and Climate Partnership
This partnership of government and non-government organisations, researchers, international bodies and the private sector has a much-called for goal: to increase cooperation between organisations involved different sectors such as health, climate, humanitarian assistance, ecosystems, research and...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED)
COHRED is a nongovernmental organisation that supports developing countries' use of health research to improve their health systems and advance development. It does this through advocacy, technical support, research and knowledge sharing. The COHRED website lists current programmes and...
LINK | 17 August 2009 | EN
Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED)
COHRED is a nongovernmental organisation that supports developing countries' use of health research to improve their health systems and advance development. It does this through advocacy, technical support, research and knowledge sharing. The COHRED website lists current programmes and...
LINK | 13 August 2009 | EN
WHO: Influenza A(H1N1)
The WHO's site on influenza A(H1N1), or 'swine flu', provides daily updates and maps of the spread of the 2009 outbreak of swine flu and official WHO statements on the virus, as well as background documents and regional information. It publishes guidance for different groups of people, including...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
Thomson Reuters special focus — influenza A(H1N1)
This influenza A(H1N1) information resource from Thomson Reuters links to a daily briefing on the current status of, and future trends in, drug therapy for the disease, that includes basic facts about A(H1N1), more commonly known as 'swine flu'. The website also provides an article on the threat...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
CDC: H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)
This United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) portal publishes news, statistics and guidance related to the A(H1N1) influenza virus, more commonly known as 'swine flu'. The CDC presents facts and figures on the virus, as well as information and advice for specific groups of...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
PAHO: Influenza A(H1N1)
This information resource, published by the international public health agency Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), provides daily situation updates on the A(H1N1) influenza virus, or 'swine flu', including the number of confirmed cases reported in individual countries in the Americas and PAHO...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
H1N1 Influenza Center
This collection of material, from The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), includes news, original research, commentary and analysis on the A(H1N1) influenza virus, or 'swine flu', and related topics such as avian influenza, the 1976 swine flu epidemic and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
Influenza Virus Resource
The Influenza Virus Resource, published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), presents gene sequence data from the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza virus, or 'swine flu', outbreak and tools for analysis and annotation. It aims to help scientists compare virus strains so that emerging...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
The Great Beyond
This blog, from the journal Nature, rounds up news about A(H1N1) influenza, or 'swine flu', from sources around the world. The round-ups include reports and confirmations of cases, warnings and statements issued by public health agencies such as the WHO as well as news of government proposals and...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
Nature News: Swine flu
This news special, published by Nature, is a collection of news and commentaries on the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza virus outbreak, more commonly known as swine flu. It includes interviews with researchers and public health officials, and discusses issues such as the spread of the virus, its virology...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
H1N1 Flu Resource Centre
This clearing house from The Lancet aggregates scientific articles, news reports and commentary from over 60 journals and societies on the scientific, clinical and public health aspects of A(H1N1) influenza, commonly known as 'swine flu'. The site contains research articles on the diagnosis,...
LINK | 18 May 2009 | EN
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Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
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