CICH Links
Declaration of the rights of the child
PodcastsTECHNICAL RESOURCES
Randomized control trials in developing countries
- List of Randomized Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries 2002-2003 (PDF 220 KB)
- List of Randomized Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries 2003-2004 (PDF)
- List of Randomized Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries 2004-2005 (PDF 500 KB)
- List of Randomized Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries 2005-2006 (PDF)
- List of Randomized Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries 2006-2007 (PDF)
- List of Randomized Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries 2007-2008 (PDF)
- List of Randomized Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries 2008-2009 (PDF)
- List of Randomized Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries 2009-2010 (PDF)
WHO Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children
International Child Health Review Collaboration (ICHRC)
Oxygen systems
- WHO. The use of Oxygen in Hospitals with Limited Resources Technical resources. Draft 2012
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Oxygen Assessment December 2006 (PDF 200 KB) A WHO assessment tool for the evaluation of oxygen systems in children's wards.
- ISO standards 8359 - oxygen concentrators (PDF 123) a summary of the International Organization for Standardization standards for oxygen concentrators for medical use.
Neonatal care
Quality of care
- WHO & UNICEF Regional Child Survival Strategy
- Campbell H, Duke T, Weber M, English M, Carai S, Tamburlini G, Pediatric Hospital Improvement Group. Global Initiatives for Improving Quality of Care for Children. Pediatrics (2008); 121: e984-e992
Podcasts, lectures and resources
- World Immunisation Week: To mark World Immunisation Week, Trevor Duke discusses the importance of immunisation, the current trends and future outlooks particularly for the Pacific region on Radio National
- Child malnutrition in the Pacific. Prof. Trevor Duke discusses the burden of child malnutrition in the Pacifi on Radio Australia (22/02/2012)
- Prof. Trevor Duke discusses antibiotic resistance in our Region - the scope of the problem, the contributing factors and possible solutions. Radio National (31/01/2012)
- Prof. Trevor Duke on Radio Australia's Connect Asia Program at the International Child Health Seminar (5/2/2010)Dr. William Lagani on Radio Australia's Connect Asia Program at the International Child Health Seminar (8/2/2010)
- Professor Trevor Duke interviewed on ReachMD (30/1/2009)
- New Health Partnership Tackles Congenital Syphilis (3:40): Maternal syphilis is often asymptomatic. If undetected, it can lead to still births or congenital syphilis. 50% of children with syphilis die in infancy. 500,000 neonatal deaths and still-borns can be prevented by detection and antibiotic treatment of syphilis in mothers.
- Locating Asymptomatic Malaria In Africa - New Methods Raise Hopes For Elimination (4:14): A approach for identifying asymptomatic malaria in low-transmission areas
- Child disability - a global perspective (5:58): 15% of all children have a disability worldwide (300 million children). This podcast briefly describes the epidemiology of disability in children, and the main issues in delivering healthcare for children with disability.
- International Health Resources
EXTERNAL LINKS
- International Child Health Group
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project - Information, news, and resources on improving nutrition from pregnancy through the first two years of life
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St Mary's Juba Link - a partnership between St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight, and Juba Teaching Hospital, Southern Sudan
- idoc Africa
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Global Health Gateway - a resource containing training and career opportunities for young health professionals interested in global health
RESEARCH INSTITUTES INVOLVED IN INTERNATIONAL CHILD HEALTH
Kenya Medical Research Institute
http://www.kemri.org/
Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
http://www.pngimr.org.pg
The MRC Unit, The Gambia
www.mrc.gm/
Medical College, Blantyre, Malawi
http://www.medcol.mw/
ICDDRB, Bangladesh
http://www.icddrb.org/
Vancouver Centre for International Child Health
http://www.bcchildrens.ca/Professionals/CtrInternationalChildHealth/default.htm
Great Ormond Street University College London Centre for International Health & Development
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/cihd/Homepage
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France
http://www.iuatld.org
Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative, New Delhi, India
http://www.chnri.org
Burnet Institute for Global Health www.burnet.edu.au
Nossal Institute for Global Health www.ni.unimelb.edu.au
GLOBAL PUBLICATIONS
UNICEF State of the Worlds Children 2011
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_57468.html
WHO Child and adolescent health and development
WHO / UNICEF Regional Child Survival Strategy
http://www.wpro.who.int/publications/PUB_9290610875.htm
World Health Report, 2012 http://www.who.int/whr/
PMNCH, WHO, Aga Khan University Essential Interventions, Commodities and Guidelines for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
BOOKS
Pocket book of hospital care for children: Guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources. World Health Organization, Geneva 2005
WHO Pocket Book of Hospital care for children
Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC). A UK based charity established in 1965 to provide low cost technical resources to developing countries. An excellent website now with extensive materials available.
http://www.talcuk.org/
Management of the Child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition: guidelines for management at a district hospital. WHO/FCH/CAH/00.1
Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition
Morley D. Paediatric Priorities in the Developing World, Butterworth, London 1973. A classic text which is still relevant today.
King M. (ed) Medical Care in Developing Countries. Oxford University Press, 1966. Another classic text, a monograph from a very early symposium on health in developing countries at the University of Makerere in Uganda.
Shann F, Biddulph J, Vince J. Paediatrics for Doctors in Papua New Guinea. 2003 Ed. 2. An excellent resource for clinical care in hospitals in developing countries.
Standard Treatment for Common Childhood Illnesses in Papua New Guinea. 8th Edition 2005. Probably the worlds longest running clinical guidelines from developing countries; continually published and updated by the Paediatric Society of PNG for over 30 years.
Coovadia HN and Wittenberg DF. Paediatrics and Child Health: a manual for health professions in developing countries. Oxford University Press, Cape Town. 2003.
Parrey E, Godfrey R, Mabey D, Gill G. Principles of Medicine in Africa. 3rd Edition, Cambridge University 2004
Duke T. Child Health in a Global Context. In Practical Paediatrics. Roberton & South (Eds) 6th Edition. 2007. Churchill Livingston.
Collier P. The Bottom Billion. Oxford University Press. 2007
WHO. Surgical Care at the District Hospital. 1998
Banerjee A, Duflo E. Poor Economics. Public Affairs. 2011 ISBN 9781586487980
JOURNALS
Tropical Medicine & International Health
Annals of Tropical Paediatrics
Journal of Tropical Paediatrics
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Archives of Disease in ChildhoodJournal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Papua New Guinea Medical Journal
Southern Sudan Medical Bulletin
COURSES IN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH OR TROPICAL MEDICINE
Monash University in conjunction with the Burnet Centre runs a Masters in Public Health with an International Health stream and a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Health.
Burnet Institute: Centre for International Health
The University of Melbourne has a Masters of Public Health course with an International Health Stream coordinated by the Australian International Health Institute. AIHI runs a 5 day International Child Health course, in November each year.
Curtin University of Technology Centre for International Health, WA, Australia
http://www.curtin.edu.au Curtin offer postgraduate diploma in International Health, Master of International Health and a Doctor of International Health.
James Cook Univeristy has a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. http://www.jcu.edu.au
London School of Tropical Medicine, UK
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/
The London School carries out research, teaching, training and consultancy in the fields of public health and tropical medicine. It is an international institution with research and collaborations in 120 countries, teaching in London and worldwide through distance learning, students from 105 countries, alumni working in 140 countries and staff from 37 countries. It teaches a number of courses by correspondance.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. Offers a variety of postgraduate courses in tropical medicine, infectious diseases, clinical training.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/
Karolinska Institute: Infectious Disease in Developing Countries, Sweden. Runs comprehensive courses in tropical medicine (DTM), infectious diseases, international health under their World Health postgraduate program.
http://www.phs.ki.se/ihcar/
Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical & Preventative Medicine http://www.gorgas.org University of Alabama in Birmingham, given in Peru at Instituo de Medicina Tropical. The Gorgas Institute runs a course in clinical tropical medicine in Feb-April. Cost is about $US5000.
Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project, India
www.jamkhed.org
The Jamkhed centre is a renowned institution for training in primary health care in the Maharashtra state of India that has been conducting courses in comprehensive rural health care for over 10 years. They have a Diploma course lasting 3 months, and student course lasting one month. The Australian International Health Institute takes students to Jamkhed for a one-month course over summer. These can be credited towards a Masters subject within University of Melbourne, or used as an initial experience in primary health care delivery in low-income settings.
EMPLOYMENT
Websites which advertise positions vacant for doctors and nurses in developing countries
Global Health Gateway www.globalhealthgateway.org.au
Medicine Sans Frontiers
http://www.msf.org/
MSF recruits a variety of health professionals for relief or development work in overseas countries. The people predominantly recruited by MSF are general practitioners, nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists and specialists in such areas as tropical medicine, public health and epidemiology. The average duration of appointment is 6 months.
Australian Volunteers International
AVI is Australia's largest international volunteer sending agency. They recruit hundreds of Australians each year to work in developing countries. Most assignments are for 2 years.
Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO)
This is a site that is sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics that posts vacancies for volunteer positions in developing countries, usually of short-term duration for a specified purpose. It has an excellent bibliography of references.
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/employment/en/
EXAMPLES OF PATHWAYS TO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Government health services
NGOs (MSF, UNICEF, Save the Children, local)
Developing country universities
Bilateral government aid agencies (AusAID)
Multi-lateral agencies (WHO, UN, agencies such as UNICEF)
Research institutes (MRC Gambia, KEMRI, IMR PNG)
Volunteer organizations (AVI, missions)
Mission hospitals
Collaborative Institutes of International Health (CICH Melbourne, London School of Tropical Medicine)
