Emerging Issues

• Topic pages on emerging global environmental health issues, prepared for the WLT. Current topics are electronic waste and pesticide use in developing nations.

Teaching Resources

• Teaching Resources : Free educational resources for people interested in teaching subjects related to public and environmental health. Resources include PowerPoint presentations, tools and curricula for educators, and numerous links. Compiled by Toxipedia.

International Links

• Agency for International Development, U.S. - USAID (providing economic and humanitarian assistance globally)
• Center for Health and the Global Environment (Harvard Medical School)
• Department of State, U.S.
  • Countries, Regions
  • International Information Programs
  • International Issues
• Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health, U.S.)
  • International Grants and Fellowships
• Global Gateway (an extensive portal to world and individual country resources in a wide array of fields of knowledge, from the Library of Congress, U.S.)
• Global Health Education Consortium
• Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)
  • Information Exchange Network on Capacity Building (INFOCAP)
  • National Focal Points (NFP)
• International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library; directory of annotated links)
• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
• International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• International Cooperation (Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.)
• International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA)
• International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH)
• International Labour Organization SAFEWORK (ILO)
  • International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS)
• International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI)
• International Medical Informatics Association
• International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS)
  • IPCS INCHEM
  • IPCS INTOX
  • Poisoning Prevention and Management
  • World Directory of Poisons Centres (Yellow Tox)
• International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA)
• International Society of Environmental Epidemiologists (ISEE)
• International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)
• International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (ISRTP)
• International Travel and Health (World Health Organization)
• International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX)
• Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC)
• NIDA International Program (from the U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse)
• Office of Global Health (CDC National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
• Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) (enabling developing countries to gain free access to environmental science literature)
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
• Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development Environment Directorate (OECD)
• Special Resources for Developing Countries (training, document delivery, library development, and more from the National Library of Medicine, U.S.)
• Traveler's Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.)
• United Nations Environment Programme Chemicals (UNEP)
  • Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)
• United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
  • Chemicals and Waste Management Programme
    • National Chemicals Management Profiles
    • Persistent Organic Pollutants Programme
    • Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
    • Environmental Law Programme
• World Bank
• World Directory of Medical Libraries
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Country Information
  • Global Health Library
  • Health Topics

Additional Links

• Reference Materials-Databases-Web Sites
• Culture Crossing
• Education, Careers, & Outreach
• Glossaries and Thesauri
• International Environmental Law
• Universal Currency Exchange
• Web Translators
• World Clock