• Alliance of Information & Referral Systems (AIRS)
  
  AIRS is a professional association for over 1,000 community information and referral providers, primarily in the United States and Canada - helping to bring people and services together.
   
• Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC)
  
  GHEC works to promote and facilitate global health education in four areas – curriculum and training materials development, clinical training, career development, and education policy.
   
• International Society on Hypertension in Blacks
  
  The International Society on Hypertension in Blacks website contains information on hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases for both medical providers as well as members of the community.
   
• Migration Policy Institute
  
  It is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide.
   
• Project HOPE
  
  HOPE stands for Health Opportunities for People Everywhere. Its mission is to achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need.  Its work includes educating health professionals and volunteers, providing medicines and supplies, strengthening health facilities, training community health workers, and fighting communicable diseases such as TB and AIDs.
   
• The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
  
  SOPHE's mission is to provide leadership to the profession of health education and health promotion to contribute to the health of all people through advances in health education theory and research, excellence in health education practice, and the promotion of public policies conducive to health.
   
• Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS)
  
  The mission of the TCNS is to enhance the quality of culturally congruent, competent, and equitable care that results in improved health and well being for people worldwide.
   
• The United States - Mexico Border Health Commission
  
  Its mission is to provide international leadership to optimize health and quality of life along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Commission is comprised of the federal secretaries of health, the chief health officers of the ten border states and prominent community health professionals from both nations.
   
• UNAIDS
  
  UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations to the global AIDS response. Cosponsors include UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank. Based in Geneva, the UNAIDS secretariat works on the ground in more than 75 countries world wide.
   
• Us Too International
  
  It is a grassroots and 501(c)3 organization started in 1990 by prostate cancer survivors to serve prostate cancer survivors, their spouses/partners and families by communicating timely and reliable information enabling informed choices regarding detection and treatment of prostate cancer. 
   
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  
  The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations specialized agency for health. WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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