Tropical Library

The Tropical Medicine and Travel Library contains tropical medicine tutorials; clinical conundrums; analysis of treatments/vaccines/altitude physiology/history and travel health.

• Tropical Diseases (A-Z)
• Tropical Vaccines and Anti-venom (A-Z)
• Tropical Travel Troubles – Clinical Cases and Conundrums in Tropical and Travel Medicine
• Tropical MCQs

Societies:

• The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• American Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
• American Society for Microbiology
• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 
• CORE Group:Membership organization of International NGOs
• RCPCH International Child Health Group

International partnerships and initiatives:

• The Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health
• Healthy Newborn network
• Countdown to 2030; Maternal Newborn and Child Survival

Tropical Medicine:

• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• LSTM – Twitter
• Clinical Tropical Medicine Links CDC
• Global health – learning centre, has online lectures
• WHO Tropical Diseases
• WHO Mental Health – close the gap. Good training videos even for Western Medicine
• Medscape Infectious Diseases
• Infectious Diseases Society of America
• Paediatric Infectious Diseases
• Infectious Diseases resources (Australia)
• Welcome to Eurosurveillance Weekly
• International Society for Infectious Diseases ProMED mail
• Johns Hopkins Antibiotic and HIV Guides
• Harvard TH Chan has a useful website that covers many public health topics. You can sign up to get a weekly newsletter with all the latest research:
• HIV (online support for HIV care from the Tropical Institute in Antwerp)
• On-line clinical cases from the The Gorgas Course, Peru 2017:  Previous years’ clinical cases can be searching on “Gorgas cases”

Parasitology:

• CDC Parasitic Diseases
• Parasitic Diseases – Monthly Case Studies
• Online parasite quiz – med-chem.com

NGOs and Humanitarian Health:

• MSF Publications on line: General / Refugee Health
• GAPMINDER – end ecumenic poverty
• Health Library for Disasters
• The Sphere Project – humanitarian aid and response
• The Medical Peace Work textbook
• CORE Group Technical Working Group Resources for Child Health;Community centered Health Systems Strengthening; Monitoring and Evaluation; Nutrition; Reproductive, Maternal, 20 Newborn, and Adolescent Health; Social and Behavior Change
• UNICEF/LSTM’s LQAS Generic Toolkit,
• LSTM’s training videos for community surveys.
• PERFORM – improving health workforce performance
• Reachout – linking communities and health systems
• Rustyradiator – awareness of stereotypes, the best and worst charity videos

Travel Links:

• Centre for Disease Control, Travel Health advice from the USA
• Fit for travel – NHS resource with up to date vaccine advice
• Foreign travel advice – from the British home office
• High altitude medicine – pocket book from Medex
• National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)
• Weekly Epidemiological Record From World Health Organisation
• WHO (Yellow Book) International Travel and Health
• World Health Organisation ‘Outbreaks’  (Regularly updated notes by World Health Organization)