Medicine, Science, and Technology Links

AARP's Public Policy Institute
Using both qualitative and quantitative research techniques, the Research Center at the Public Policy Institute conducts and commissions policy research on health, economic security and work, independent living and long-term care, and consumer issues at both the federal and state levels.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. AGI publishes Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, International Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy and special reports on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights. The goal of AGI is to support individual's ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior and relationships, reproduction and family formation.

Alliance for Public Technology
Concerned with fostering access to affordable and useful information and communication services and technologies by all people, APT is composed of public interest groups and individuals, some of whom historically have been left out of the Information Age, including the elderly, minorities, low income groups and people with disabilities.

Center for Alternative Technology
The Center for Alternative Technology (CAT) is concerned with the search for globally sustainable, whole and ecologically sound technologies and ways of life.
Within this search the role of CAT is to explore and demonstrate a wide range of alternatives, communicating to other people the options for them to achieve positive change in their own lives.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Health Policy Page
The Center conducts research and analysis to inform public debates over proposed budget and tax policies and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered in these debates. In addition, the Center examines the short- and long-term impacts that proposed policies would have on the health of the economy and on the soundness of federal and state budgets. Among the issues we explore are whether federal and state governments are fiscally sound and have sufficient revenue to address critical priorities, both for low-income populations and for the nation as a whole.

Center for Democracy & Technology
The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.

Center for the Public Domain
Through grant making, original research, conferences, and collaborative programs, the Center seeks to call attention to the importance of the public domain and spur effective, practical solutions and responses. With pages devoted to sceince, technology, patents, intellectual property and other, its work is animated by the conviction that new legal regimes, social institutions and transparent technologies must be created to fortify the information commons.

Consumer Project on Technology
The Consumer Project on Technology was started by Ralph Nader in 1995. Its work is documented extensively on the CPTech web page as well as through its multiple listserves. Currently CPTech is focusing on intellectual property rights and health care, electronic commerce (very broadly defined) and competition policy.

The Economic and Social Research Institute
The Economic and Social Research Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institute, that conducts research and studies directed at enhancing the effectiveness of social programs, improving the way health care services are organized and delivered, making quality health care accessible and affordable.

The Federal Bio-Technology Transfer Database
A commercial site, the Federal Bio-Technology Transfer Directory is an integrated information resource designed for demanding users in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Besides being essential for access to technology transfer opportunities, the database is a unique source for competitive intelligence concerning federal (and corporate) research, development and commercialization activities.

Institute for Child Health Policy
The overall mission of the Institute for Child Health Policy is to reserach, evaluate, formulate, and advance health policies, programs, and systems that promote the health and well-being of children and youth.

Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society
The core mission of InSITeS is to generate and support multidisciplinary programs of teaching, research and public outreach with regard to information technology policy and the social, economic, political, legal and cultural impacts of information technology.

Integrety in Science
In response to the commercialization of science and the growing problem of conflicts of interest, the Integrity in Science Project seeks to: raise awareness about the role that corporate funding and other corporate interests play in scientific research, oversight, and publication, investigate and publicize conflicts of interest and other potentially destructive influences of industry-sponsored science, advocate for full disclosure of funding sources, and encourage both policy-makers and journalists.

Kaisernetwork.org
Kaisernetwork.org is the premier online resource for timely and in-depth coverage of health policy news, debates and discussions. This free and comprehensive multimedia service connects users to the events, people, information, and research that shape health policy.

Legal Information Institute
LII's mission is to carry out applied research on the use of digital information technology in the distribution of legal information, the delivery of legal education, and the practice of law. Internationally as a leading "law-not-com" provider of public legal information, LII offers all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. We also publish important secondary sources: libraries in two important areas (legal ethics and social security) and a series of "topical" pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for roughly 100 areas of law.

The Loka Institute
Founded in 1987, the Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology. Loka works to make science and technology more responsive to social and environmental concerns by expanding opportunities for grassroots, public-interest group, everyday citizen, and worker involvement in vital facets of science and technology decision making.

Massive Effort Campaign
The Massive Effort Campaign (MEC) empowers a much larger global movement that will not tolerate the injustice that more than ten million people die every year for lack of effective medicines and supplies costing $ 10 or less. The Massive Effort team functions as a network with a small core group of professional staff supported by a wide range of experts giving inputs when required focusing on the mobilizing healthy behaviour, global advocacy, and partnership building.

Maternal and Child Health Policy Center
The MCH Policy Research Center is a health policy group that provides federal and state policymakers, public health officials, and provider and family organizations with analysis of financing and service delivery issues affecting children and adolescents.

Moving Ideas - Health Care Policy Page
Moving Ideas Network (MIN), formerly the Electronic Policy Network, is dedicated to explaining and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broader audience. Their goal is to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators. Moving Ideas posts resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions, as well as promotes high-quality websites and publishes original content.

Moving Ideas - Science and Culture Page
See above.

policyAmerica
policyAmerica is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to develop the next agenda in American social policy. This will be achieved by creating and fostering an electronic network of current and retired policy administrators, scholars, and advocates who propose, discuss, and craft innovations in social policy. policyAmerica focuses on child protection, poverty, employment, health insurance, and long-term care, and other social welfare issues.

Politics of Health
Sponsored by Health Watch, Politics of Health is an interactive website of facts, analysis, and and effective action for change - a means for organizing and networking globally from the bottom up. It looks at community health, disability issues, child health, and development strategies.

The Society on the Social Impact of Technology
The Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has about 2000 members worldwide. The scope of the society includes such issues as environmental, health and safety implications of technology; engineering ethics and professional responsibility; history of electrotechnology; technical expertise and public policy; peace technology; and social issues related to energy, information technology and telecommunications.

Tuffs Center for the Study of Drug Development
Tufts CSDD is internationally recognized for its scholarly analyses and thoughtful commentary on pharmaceutical issues. Tufts CSDD's mission is to provide strategic information for drug developers, regulators, and policy markers on improving the quality and efficiency of pharmaceutical development, research, and utilization.

The Urban Institute - Health and Health Care Research Page
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., whose mission is to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices