who's who in global health

supposedly grad school is the place to network, find a job. i networked pretty well, yet somehow i made it through grad school without any idea of the big players on the international public health scene. sure, there was a guest lecturer in my "working in global health" course who had a lot of suggestions on how to find a job internationally, but he never actually said who there was to work for.

so, if you want to work in global health, here's some of the organizations to check out (beware, this is a community of acronyms). i guarantee you this list isn't exhaustive and i admit it reflects my current bias by being heavily weighted toward NGO/non-profit, but it is a place to start.

• MIHV
  
• family health international (FHI)
• ORCmacro/CSTS+
• save the children
• engenderhealth
• the ACQUIRE project
• JHU/CCP
• health communication partnership (HCP)
• elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (EGPAF)
• CDC
  
• african medical & research foundation (AMREF)
• the international rescue committee (the IRC)
• american refugee committee (ARC)
• marie stopes international
• the malaria consortium
• africare
• USAID
  
• pathfinder international
• PSI
  
• world learning
• CARE
• helen keller international
• program for appropriate technology in health (PATH)
  
• john snow inc (JSI)
• the DELIVER project
• actionaid international
  

if you don't mind religious affiliations, there's also

• catholic relief services (CRS)
  
• ADRA
• lutheran world federation (LWF)
  
• worldvision
• christian children's fund
  

sorry, but i didn't take the time to list them by areas of interest (e.g. family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), malaria, integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), HIV/AIDS, nutrition, maternal & child health, environmental health), but you'll figure it out pretty quickly once you look at their websites.

fyi: if you want to do international health work without living overseas, it'll be challenging to find a job outside of new york or DC. i got lucky by finding MIHV in minneapolis. there's also a few in seattle and san francisco. 101paige 101iph