The Roosevelt Institution

Resources

Current Projects

Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

Mental Health and Katrina

Office of Public Health Practice Grand Rounds: Mental Health Implications of Public Health Emergencies

Other Issues

Access

A New Deal for Health - Century Foundation Report

Stability of Mentally Ill Shaken By Medicare Drug Plan Problems - Levine, The Washington Post

Disaster Preparedness

Health & Poverty

A Synergism of Plagues: "Planned Shrinkage," Contagious Urban Decay, and AIDS in the Bronx - Wallace, Environmental Research

Editorial: Understanding Sociodemographic Differences in Health - The Role of Fundamental Social Causes - Link et al., American Journal of Public Health

Qualitative Methodologies and Community Participation in Examining Reproductive Experiences: The Harlem Birthright Project - Mullings et al., Maternal and Child Health Journal

To Mitigate, Resist, or Undo: Addressing Structural Influences on the Health of Urban Populations - Geronimus, American Journal of Public Health

General

UNAIDS Epidemiology of AIDS Powerpoint

http://data.unaids.org/pub/GlobalReport/2006/2006GlobalReport_FullPresentation.ppt

“2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic: Executive summary” from UNAIDS

http://data.unaids.org/pub/GlobalReport/2006/2006_GR-ExecutiveSummary_en.pdf

AIDS Timeline from Kaiser Family Foundation

http://www.kff.org/hivaids/timeline/hivtimeline.cfm

Global Health Facts from Kaiser

http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/index.jsp

“Debunking the Myths in the US Global AIDS Strategy” from CHANGE

http://www.genderhealth.org/pubs/AIDS5-YearStratAnalysisMar-04.pdf

Treatment and Access

“Towards Universal Access by 2010” from WHO

http://www.who.int/hiv/toronto2006/UAreport2006_en.pdf

“Cut the cost: How World Trade Rules Threaten the Health of Poor People” from Oxfam

http://www.maketradefair.com/en/assets/english/patent.pdf

FAQ from MSF’s Access to Essential Medicines

http://www.accessmed-msf.org/campaign/faq.shtm

“Untangling the Web of Price Reductions” (technical) from MSF

http://www.accessmed-msf.org/documents/untanglingtheweb%209.pdf

“Abbott’s new and improved Kaletra: Only in the US…But what about the rest of the world?” from MSF

http://www.accessmed-msf.org/documents/KaletraCampaign.doc

Debt and Trade

“The Unfinished Agenda on International Debt” from Jubilee USA http://www.jubileeusa.org/take_action/unfinished_agenda.pdf 

“US free trade agreements block access to medicines” from Oxfam

http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2006/pr060816_aids

Healthworkers in LDCs

“Health worker shortage is major obstacle to universal treatment” from Oxfam

http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2006/pr060815_aidsconference

“Health care workers and health systems capacity” from Health GAP

http://healthgap.org/camp/hcw.html

Global Programs and Funding

“False Hope or New Start? The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria” from Oxfam

http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/pp0206_false_hope_or_new_start.pdf/download

International

Income Inequality, the Psychosocial Environment, and Health: Comparisons of Wealthy Nations - Lynch et al., The Lancet

Patent Injustice: How Global Trade Rules Threaten the Health of Poor People - Oxfam International Report

Local

Related websites

www.who.int

www.msf.org

www.accessmed-msf.org

www.oxfam.org

www.unaids.org

www.jubilee.org

www.healthgap.org

www.actupny.org

www.avert.org

www.globalaidsalliance.org

www.aegis.org

www.kff.org/

www.globalhealthfacts.org/index.jsp

www.theglobalfund.org/en/

www.genderhealth.org/

www.ewashtenaw.org

www.theglobalfund.org/en/

www.pih.org/home.html