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Wellcome Trust, UK The Wellcome Trust is the largest charity in the UK. It funds innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally, spending around GBP600 million each year to support the brightest scientists with the best ideas. The Wellcome Trust supports public debate about biomedical research and its impact on health and wellbeing. |
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Wellcome Trust Mahidol University Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme, Thailand This Unit was formed as a collaboration between the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok and The Centre for Tropical Diseases, University of Oxford. It is supported by the Wellcome Trust of Great Britain. Main areas of research interest are malaria and melioidosis. |
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Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Oxford, UK The Centre for Tropical Medicine exists to facilitate the improvement of the diagnosis, management and prevention of important tropical diseases through a better understanding of their pathogenesis, pathophysiology, genetics and epidemiology. |
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World Health Organization (WHO) WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. |
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Tropical Disease Research to foster Innovation and Knowledge Application (TropIKA.net ) The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) has established TropIKA.net as a global knowledge management electronic portal to share essential information and to facilitate identification of priority needs and major research gaps in the field of infectious diseases of poverty. |
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Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) The HINARI program, set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3750 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries, benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health. |
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British Infection Society The BIS was formed in 1997 by the merger of the British Society for the Study of Infection and the Clinical Infection Society. It is actively represented on various national bodies formulating policy about training, continuing professional development and delivering health care in the field of infection. |
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New England Journal of Medicine An influential medical journal covering the latest medical research, significant clinical trials, ground-breaking case studies, expert review articles, lively editorials and commentary and revealing clinical images. |
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The Lancet The Lancet is an independent and authoritative voice in global medicine. The journal seeks to publish high-quality clinical trials that will alter medical practice and ensures that research and analysis from all regions of the world is widely covered. |
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PubMed PubMed is a service of the US. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. |
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Public Library of Science PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. |
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Science and Development Network The Science and Development Network is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing reliable and authoritative information about science and technology for the developing world. |