Useful Web sites

BioMed Central (BMC) is a UK-based scientific publisher specializing in open access publication.

CAREC (Caribbean Epidiemiology Centre) a public health information, service and consulting organisation, dedicated to being the best at providing information that people need to improve health and prevent disease in the Caribbean.

The Caribbean Health Research Council [CHRC] is the regional health institution with the mandate to promote and coordinate health research in the Caribbean. It serves countries that are members of the Caribbean Community [CARICOM], providing advice to their Ministries of Health and other stakeholders and generally supporting research related activities.

The Cochrane Library presents the work of the Cochrane Collaboration and others interested in assembling evidence-based information to guide health-care decision.

The Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health, NIH
Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences

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A comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research, separated by category.

This table separates the Grants and Fellowships into different categories. For example, those interested only in grants and fellowships for health professionals should click on the link in column 1 row 2.

Pre-doctoral/Graduate	Post-doctoral	Faculty
Health Professionals	Institutions	Addendum: Travel

Health Sector Reform (Trinidad and Tobago) Mission Statement - To improve the health status of the people of Trinidad and Tobago by promoting wellness and providing quality health care in an affordable, efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. (Link dated, but provides useful historical information).

MEDCARIB - BIREME

MEDCARIB is a bibliographic database of the literature in the Health Sciences of the English-speaking Caribbean countries.

MedEdPORTAL is a new publishing venue through which faculty may disseminate their educational works.

Medical Association of Trinidad and Tobago the primary aim of the Association is to promote the medical and allied sciences, and to maintain the honour and interest of the medical profession. ( Link dated, but provides useful historical information).

Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago Medical Practitioners with Full Registration in Trinidad & Tobago constitute the Medical Board of Trinidad & Tobago.

Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago is a proactive institution that makes sound evidence-based decisions to assure standards of excellence are achieved by all agencies that promote, protect and improve the health of the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

Nestlé Nutrition Institute invites health professionals in the area of infant, clinical and performance nutrition to a constant exchange of knowledge and nutrition expertise.

PubMed is a service of the US NLM that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.

The TTVHL is a

Trinidad and Tobago

initiative of the the the Virtual Health Library (VHL). The VHL is a collection or network of health information sources in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, universally accessible on the Internet and compatible with international databases.