American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT)
AACT was established as a not-for-profit multidisciplinary organisation in 1968 aiming to unite scientists and clinicians in the advancement of research, education, prevention, and treatment of diseases caused by chemicals, drugs, and toxins.
Harrisburg, Philadelphia, USA
American Public Health Association (APHA)
An organisation of public health professionals, APHA is over 125 years old and represents more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations in public health.
Washington, DC, USA
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
ASM membership has grown from 59 scientists in 1899 to more than 43,000 members today, with more than one third located outside the USA. The members represent 26 disciplines of microbiological specialisation, plus a division for microbiology educators.
Washington, DC, USA
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
ASTMH was created in 1951 through the amalgamation of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, founded in 1903, and the National Malaria Society, founded in 1940. ASTMH represents scientists, clinicians, and others with interests in the prevention and control of tropical diseases through research and education and its members include those with clinical, epidemiological, and basic biochemical, immunological, and molecular approaches to diseases and pathogens.
Northbrook, Illinois, USA
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
Originally called the Association for Practitioners in Infection Control, APIC was founded in 1972. It has more than 11,000 members with primary responsibility for infection prevention, control, and hospital epidemiology in healthcare settings around the globe, and including nurses, epidemiologists, physicians, microbiologists, clinical pathologists, laboratory technologists, and public health practitioners.
Washington, DC, USA
Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID)
Founded in 1976, ASID is a special society of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, dedicated to education, research, and the advancement of the practice of infectious diseases.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Australian Infection Control Association (AICA)
AICA is a voluntary not-for-profit association, representing the interests of the specialist practice of infection control within Australia, as well as the collaboration between the state and territory infection control associations in Australia.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was created to help reduce inequities in the USA and around the world. The mission of the foundation's Global Health programme is to encourage the development of life-saving medical advances and to help ensure they reach the people who are disproportionately affected.
Center for Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)
Established at the University of Minnesota in 2001, CIDRAP aims to prevent illness and death from infectious diseases through epidemiologic research and the rapid translation of scientific information into real-world practical applications and solutions. Programmes focus on four key areas: public health preparedness, emerging infectious disease response, agricultural and food biosecurity, and food safety.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Founded in 1946, initially to help control malaria, the CDC is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services, which is the principal agency in the US government for protecting the health and safety of all American
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Centre for Health Protection (CHP)
CHP is part of China's Department of Health. The organisation aims to achieve effective prevention and control of diseases in Hong Kong in collaboration with major local and international stakeholders.
Hong Kong, China
Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE)
CHE is a network of over 2400 individual and organisational partners in 39 countries, working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors.
Doctors for Global Health (DGH)
DGH is a private, not-for-profit organisation promoting health, education, art, and other human rights throughout the world. DGH was founded in 1995 by volunteers who were accompanying the communities of war-torn Moraz???n province in north-eastern El Salvador in their struggle to implement primary health care and public health services. Since then, DGH has grown into an international movement for health and human rights.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the USA. The EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education, and assessment efforts.
Washington, DC, USA
European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS)
EACS is a not-for-profit group of European physicians, clinicians, and researchers in the field of HIV/AIDS. Established in 1991, it aims to bring together scientists from all over Europe and helping the exchange of latest innovation regarding clinical aspects of the disease.
Paris, France
European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT)
EAPCCT was founded in 1964 by a group of physicians and scientists with the specific goal of advancing knowledge and understanding of the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of poisoning. EAPCCT is a member of the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX).
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
In 2004, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union passed the regulation creating the ECDC to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases, such as influenza, SARS, and HIV/AIDS. ECDC works in partnership with national health protection bodies across Europe to improve and develop continent-wide disease surveillance and early warning systems.
Stockholm, Sweden
European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
Founded in 1992, EUPHA is an umbrella organisation for public health associations in Europe. A multidisciplinary, scientific organisation, EUPHA brings together around 12,000 public-health experts for professional exchange and collaboration throughout Europe, thereby encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to public health.
Utrecht, The Netherlands
European Society for Clinical Virology (ESCV)
ESCV is the successor to the European Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis (EGRVD) and the European Society against Virus Diseases (ESAVD), which merged to form ESCV in 1997. The Society is open to all those interested in viruses as causes of disease in human and animals, whether as professionals or simply from curiosity.
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
ESCMID is a not-for-profit organisation thats mission is to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases by promoting and supporting research, education, and training in the infection disciplines. This is achieved by scientific exchange, educational programmes, grants and awards, certification, and consultation with professional and government agencies.
Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA)
GEGA was created to participate in and support an active approach to monitoring health inequalities and promoting equity within and between societies. The Alliance currently includes 11 member-teams, called Equity Gauges, located in 10 countries in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
Durban, South Africa
Global Fund
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was created to increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector, and affected communities, the Global Fund represents an innovative approach to international health financing.
Geneva, Switzerland
Global Health Council
Formerly the National Council of International Health, the Global Health Council is a US-based, not-for-profit membership organisation that was created in 1972 to identify priority world health problems and to report on them to the US public, legislators, international and domestic government agencies, academic institutions, and the global health community.
Washington, DC, and White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI)
GHSI is an informal, international partnership of like-minded countries to strengthen health preparedness and response globally to threats of biological, chemical, radio-nuclear terrorism (CBRN), and pandemic influenza. This initiative was launched in November 2001 by Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the UK, and the USA. The WHO is a technical advisor to the GHSI.
Ottawa, Canada
Global Health Watch
At the World Health Assembly in 2003, the People's Health Movement, together with GEGA and Medact, discussed the need for civil society to produce its own alternative World Health Report. The idea of an alternative World Health Report since developed into an initiative called the 'Global Health Watch' the first of which was launched in July 2005 in Ecuador and London.
Health Canada
Health Canada is the federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances.
Ottawa, Ontario
Health Protection Agency (HPA)
HPA is an independent body that protects the health and well-being of the population in England. The Agency plays a critical role in protecting people from infectious diseases and other dangers to health. It also prepares for new and emerging threats, such as a bio-terrorist attack.
London, UK
Health Protection Scotland (HPS)
HPS came into existence in 2004, taking over the functions of the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH). It was established by the Scottish Executive to strengthen and co-ordinate health protection in Scotland.
Glasgow, UK
Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC)
HPSC is part of the Health Service Executive, which was established in January 2005 and has operational responsibility for the running of the health services in Ireland. HPSC is Ireland's specialist agency for the surveillance of communicable diseases and was originally known as the National Disease Surveillance Centre, which was set up in 1998.
Dublin, Ireland
Hellenic Centre for Infectious Diseases Control (KEEL)
KEEL is an independent centre responsible for surveillance and control of infectious diseases in Greece. It functions under the supervision of the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity, and is in close collaboration with all public health authorities. KEEL is responsible for a wide range of activities including work on HIV/AIDS, epidemiology, health education, and public health surveillance.
Athens, Greece
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
HHMI is a not-for-profit medical research organisation that employs hundreds of leading biomedical scientists. The Institute is one of the world's largest philanthropies, with laboratories across the USA and grants programmes throughout the world.
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
IDSA represents physicians, scientists, and other health-care professionals who specialise in infectious diseases. IDSA's purpose is to improve the health of individuals, communities, and society by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health, and prevention relating to infectious diseases.
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Institute of Health (Instituto de Salud Carlos III)
Among its other activities, the Institute of Health consolidates: research in tropical medicine and rare diseases; design, development and application of new technologies required for the diagnosis of infectious diseases; promotion of programmes for disease monitoring after eradication; research into diseases associated with climatic change, and study and evaluation of environmental polluting agents.
Madrid, Spain
International AIDS Society
The International AIDS Society is an independent association of HIV/AIDS professionals.
Geneva, Switzerland
International Society for Children's Health and the Environment (ISCHE)
ISCHE is an international organisation dedicated to the protection of children from adverse environmental influences (chemical, physical, biological, and social) through research, training, policy, clinical care, and education. The Society also seeks to promote children's health by enhancing the quality of their environments.
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)
ISEE is an international organisation with members from more than 50 countries. Topics addressed by ISEE members include environmental exposures, health effects, methodology, environment/gene interactions, and ethics and law.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
ISID was created in 1986 by a merger between the International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID) and the International Federation on Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (IFIPD). ISID aims to improve the care of patients with infectious diseases, train clinicians and researchers in infectious diseases and microbiology, control infectious diseases around the world, and develop partnerships to find solutions to the problem of infectious diseases across the globe.
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research (ISSTDR)
ISSTDR was founded in 1977 and is governed by an international Board of Directors, who currently represent seven countries. ISSTDR exists to promote research on sexually transmitted diseases and facilitate the timely exchange of information among researchers. To these ends, ISSTDR sponsors a biennial, interdisciplinary scientific meeting.
International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI)
Founded in 1923, IUSTI's objective is to achieve international co-operation in the control of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection. IUSTI is not only concerned with the medical aspects but also the social and epidemiological aspects of the control of sexually transmitted diseases. It is on the roster of the UN Economic and Social Council, and is an official non-governmental organisation in consultative status with the WHO.
Southampton, UK
International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
IUHPE is a global organisation devoted to advancing public health through health promotion and health education. It is a global network working to promote health worldwide and contribute to the achievement of equity in health between and within countries. Members include government bodies, universities, and institutes, non-governmental organisations and individuals across all continents.
Paris, France
International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX)
IUTOX seeks to increase the knowledge base of toxicological issues facing humankind and to extend this knowledge to developing societies and nations. Founded in 1980, IUTOX now has 47 affiliated societies representing all six continents and over 20,000 toxicologists from industry, academia, and government as members.
Reston, Virginia, USA
Istituto Superiore di Sanit??? (ISS)
ISS is the leading technical and scientific public body of the Italian National Health Service. Its activities include research, control, training, and consultation in the interest of public health protection.
Landlæknir (Health Directorate)
The Directorate of Health is an Icelandic government agency. Its five divisions are responsible for public health and clinical quality, infectious disease control and prevention, health statistics, patient complaints and clinical guidelines, and finance a
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
MSF is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries.
Geneva, Switzerland
Medact
Medact is a global health charity tackling issues at the centre of international policy debates. Led by its health professional membership, it undertakes education, research, and advocacy on the health implications of conflict, development, and environmental change, with a special focus on the developing world.
London, UK
Medicus Mundi International (MMI)
MMI is a non-governmental organisation aiming to promote health and health services for the most deprived, especially in developing countries. MMI supports projects through personnel assistance, financial assistance and professional advice.
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID)
NFID is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1973 and dedicated to educating the public and health-care professionals about the causes, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Founded in 1887, NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centres, and the federal focal point for medical research in the USA. The NIH is composed of 27 separate institutes and centres, and is one of eight health agencies of the Public Health Service, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
National Public Health Institute (KTL)
As an expert body under the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, KTL is responsible for providing professionals and citizens with information for their choices. Its other functions include research, health monitoring, public health services, education, and training.
Helsinki, Finland
National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS)
NPHS brings together the public health resources of the five former health authorities in Wales, which includes input from academic departments.
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
OPCW aims to implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention with a vision of a world free of chemical weapons, and a world in which co-operation in the peaceful uses of chemistry is fostered. In doing this, they ultimately aim to contribute to international security and stability, general and complete disarmament, and global economic development.
Partners in Health (PIH)
PIH is a not-for-profit corporation with a presence in Latin America, the Caribbean, Russia, and the USA. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organisations, PIH strives to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
People's Health Movement (PHM)
PHM has its roots deep in the people's movement and owes its genesis to many health networks and activists who have been concerned by the growing inequities in health over the past 25 years. PHM calls for a revitalisation of the principles of the Alma-Ata Declaration, which promised 'Health for All' by the year 2000 and complete revision of international and domestic policy that has shown to impact negatively on health status and systems.
Cairo, Egypt
ProMED-mail: the program for monitoring emerging diseases
Internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid global dissemination of information on outbreaks of infectious diseases and acute exposures to toxins that affect human health, including those in animals and in plants grown for food or animal feed. Electronic communications enable ProMED-mail to provide up-to-date and reliable news about threats to human, animal, and food plant health around the world, seven days a week. Free subscription is available.
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
RKI is the central German federal institution responsible for disease control and prevention and is, therefore, the central federal reference institution for both applied and response-orientated research, as well as the public health sector. The institute has responsibilities in the field of scientific investigation, epidemiological, and medical analysis, and evaluation of dangerous diseases and those with a high prevalence or of increased public or health-related political significance.
Berlin, Germany
Rockefeller Foundation
Founded in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation works globally to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalisation???s benefits are more widely shared. The initiatives of the foundation are largely focused on global health, agricultural productivity, innovation for development, economic resilience, and urban life.
New York, New York, USA
Royal Society for Public Health
The Royal Society for Public Health is an independent, multi-disciplinary organisation, dedicated to the promotion and protection of collective human health and well-being.
Through advocacy, mediation, empowerment, knowledge and practice it advises on policy development, provides education and training services, encourages scientific research, disseminates information and certifies products, training centres, and processes.
London, UK
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Founded in 1907, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene has 2000 Fellows worldwide. The mission of the Society is to promote and advance the study, control, prevention, and treatment of tropical diseases, to facilitate discussion, exchange of information, and promotion of the health of those affected by tropical diseases.
Scientific Institute of Public Health
The Scientific Institute of Public Health is an institute of the Belgium government. Its main mission is scientific research in support of health policy. It also provides expertise and public service in the field of public health.
Brussels, Belgium
Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH)
SEGH was established in 1971 to provide a forum for scientists from various disciplines to work together in understanding the interaction between the geochemical environment and the health of plants, animals, and humans. The international members of SEGH represent expertise in a diverse range of scientific fields, such as biology, engineering, geology, hydrology, epidemiology, chemistry, medicine, nutrition, and toxicology.
Springfield, Missouri, USA
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
SHEA was founded in 1980 to advance the application of the science of healthcare epidemiology. SHEA participates in all branches of medicine, public health, and healthcare epidemiology.
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Society for Prevention Research (SPR)
SPR seeks to advance science-based prevention programmes and policies through empirical research. The international membership of the organisation includes scientists, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy makers who are concerned with the prevention of social, physical, and mental health problems and the promotion of health, safety, and well-being.
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
Founded in 1950, SOPHE is an independent, international, professional association made up of a diverse membership of health education professionals and students. It promotes healthy behaviours, communities, and environments through its membership, its network of local chapters, and its numerous partnerships with other organisations.
Washington, DC, USA
Statens Serum Institut
Statens Serum Institut is an enterprise under the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health, and the Institute's duties are partly integrated in the national Danish health services. Statens Serum Institut aims to prevent and control infectious diseases, congenital disorders, and biological threats.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI)
SMI is a government expert authority with a mission to monitor the epidemiology of infectious diseases among Swedish citizens and promote control and prevention of these diseases. SMI gives expert advice and support to local, regional, and central authorities with operative or political responsibilities for infectious disease control.
UNAIDS
UNAIDS, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, brings together the efforts and resources of 10 UN system organisations to the global AIDS response. Co-sponsors include UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, and the World Bank. The UNAIDS secretariat works on the ground in more than 75 countries worldwide.
World Health Organization (WHO)
Established in 1948, the WHO is the United Nations' specialised agency for health. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health, where health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. WHO is governed by 193 Member States through the World Health Assembly.
Geneva, Switzerland
World Research Foundation (WRF)
WRF is a non-profit organisation, created in 1984. WRF has established an international, health information network, so that people could be informed of all available treatments around the world, and so that they could have the freedom to choose, based on
