Links

Seminars presented to ECOHOST by research collaborators:

• Population Health & Health Care System in Russia (St Petersburg State University)

Research projects and conferences:

• Europe for Patients - IESE Business School
• Health System Reforms in CEE - PHARE
• Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Russia and Estonia - Open Society Institute
• Partners for Health Foundation - formerly Tbilisi-Atlanta Health Partnership
• Responding to Requests for Information on Health Systems from Policy makers in Asian countries - Study commissioned by Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research based in the World Health Organization, Geneva

Research units on health in CEE and FSU:

• LSE Health (London School of Economics)
• European Observatory on Health Care Systems (WHO)
• Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (SCOHOST)

Internet links to some of ECOHOST's collaborators:

• European Public Health Law Network A EU co-funded network of expertise on the use of law for the promotion and protection on public health
• Department of Social Medicine & Health Care Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (contacts: Jan Holcik)
• Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (contact: Richard Rose)
• Institute of Public Health NRW, Bielefeld, Germany (contact: Helmut Brand)
• Public Health Laboratory Service (combined web site with the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre)
• Living Conditions, Lifestyle &Health (Institute of Advanced Studies, Austria)
• Imperial Business School, Imperial College, University of London
  

Other useful sources of information:

• Central and East European Studies - Copenhagen Business School
• UK Department for International Development - DFID
• World Bank - detailed statistical information by country
• Albert Schweitzer Institute - health care programmes
• Soros public health programme - Open Society Institute
• EU website
• Issues in public health internet resources - created by Martin McKee
• Public Health Institute of Scotland - research on Scottish mortality
• Evaluation of National and Regional Public Health Reports - health reporting in Europe
• AFEW - AIDS Foundation East West