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Journals and databases

British Medical Journal http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/

Disasters http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0361-3666&site=1

Forced Migration Review http://www.fmreview.org/

Journal of the American Medical Association http://jama.ama-assn.org/

Journal of International Development http://www.wileyeurope.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-JID.html

Journal of Refugee Studies http://www3.oup.co.uk/refuge/

The Lancet http://www.thelancet.com

New England Journal of Medicine http://content.nejm.org/

PubMed (medical and health database) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

ISI Web of Knowledge http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/

Academic and research institutes

York University (Canada) Centre for Refugee Studies http://www.yorku.ca/crs/

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/index.html

François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/

Harvard University School of Public Health http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health http://www.jhsph.edu/

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine http://www.lshtm.ac.uk

Overseas Development Institute http://www.odi.org.uk

Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

Governmental, inter-governmental, and multilateral institutions

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov

Department for International Development (UK) http://www.dfid.gov.uk

European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/index_en.htm

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) http://www.icrc.org

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies http://www.ifrc.org

International Organization for Migration http://www.iom.int/

Sphere Project http://www.sphereproject.org

United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) http://www.unicef.org

United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) http://www.unhcr.org

United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) http://www.unhchr.ch

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) http://www.unfpa.org

World Food Programme (WFP) http://www.wfp.org

World Health Organization (WHO) http://www.who.int

Non-governmental organizations

Action Aid http://www.actionaid.org.uk

American Refugee Committee International http://www.archq.org/

CARE (International) http://www.care.org

International Centre for Migration and Health http://www.icmh.ch/

International Rescue Committee http://www.theirc.org/

Global IDP Project (Norwegian Refugee Council) http://www.idpproject.org/

Medact http://www.medact.org/tbx/pages/section.cfm?index_id=3

Merlin http://www.merlin.org.uk/template6.asp?PageID=1

Norwegian Refugee Council http://www.nrc.no/engindex.htm

OXFAM (International) http://www.oxfam.org/eng/

ReliefWeb http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf

Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (RHRC) http://www.rhrc.org/

Save the Children (UK) http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk/jsp/index.jsp?flash=true

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children http://www.womenscommission.org/

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