Resources

Center Director's Recommended Books

Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder*
Epic Measures: One doctor. Seven Billion Patients by Jeremy N. Smith
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn*
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman*
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About It by Paul Collier
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson*
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond*
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs
The Pathology of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer
Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader by Paul Farmer
Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer
White Man's Burden by William Easterly
The Human Right to Health by Jonathan Wolff
Heart and Soul: Awakening Your Passion to Serve by Gary Morsch

*Denotes a New York Times best-seller

Articles
- Subscribe to Global Health NOW
  - Published by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health - from the website-- "Global Health NOW is an essential daily read for the global health community. Every weekday, we aggregate and summarize the latest global health news—delivering all the day’s critical stories to your inbox."
Textbooks
- Global Health 101 3rd Ed. by Richard Skolnik (2016).
  - This has been very highly reviewed by students as being very readable, practical and at the “right level” for most medical students understanding. Some students have chosen to read the entire book cover-to-cover.
Other Organizations focused on Global Health
Maps
- WorldMapper
- Gapminder