Links & Resources
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American Anthropology Association
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is the world's largest organization of individuals interested in anthropology.
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BIOS, London School of Economics
BIOS is an international centre for research and policy on social aspects of the life sciences and biomedicine.
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Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA)
Chair Holder Bio: Jance E. Graham- Canada Research Chair in Bioethics
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (CCfV)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Since 2000, CIHR has energized the health research community, inspired new collaborations across disciplinary and geographic boundaries, and engendered new partnerships between those who conduct research and those who implement its findings.
CESAGEN, University of Cardiff
Cesagen is a collaborative research centre which is funded as part of the ESRC Genomics Network. The Centre is based at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff.
Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna Burkina Faso
Le Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna (CRSN) à l’image d’autres institutions de recherche pour la recherche en Afrique sub-saharienne, a subi de profondes mutations institutionnelles au cours de ces dix dernières années.
Current Science & Technology Podcasts
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Department Pediatrics & Infectious Disease [Dalhousie University]
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European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
EASST’s objective is to foster within Europe the scholarly study of science and technology including their historical development and their role in society.
EvidenceNetwork.ca is a non-partisan web-based project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Manitoba Health Research Council to make the latest evidence on controversial health policy issues available to the media.
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Global Biopolitics Research Group
We are an international, interdisciplinary group of academics conducting research projects and consultancy work in global biopolitics. We aim to uncover and specify the many far-reaching social and political issues generated by the rapid development of the life sciences and new health technologies in the global bioeconomy.
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This is the homepage of the Locating Technoscience reader, which builds on the ESRC funded 'Locating Technoscience' seminar series. The aim of this reader is to introduce and contextualise a series of articles on the geographies of contemporary science and technology.
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Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP)
The mission of the MVP is to eliminate meningitis as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa through the development, testing, introduction, and widespread use of conjugate meningococcal vaccines.
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New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
The New York Academy of Sciences is the world's nexus of scientific innovation in the service of humanity. For nearly 200 years — since 1817 — the Academy has brought together extraordinary people working at the frontiers of discovery and promoted vital links between science and society. One of the oldest scientific organizations in the United States, the Academy has become not only a notable and enduring cultural institution in New York City, but also one of the most significant organizations in the international scientific community.
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With an empirical ethics program addressing the key ethical and social issues raised by genomics research (and its applications), such as pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics and agrigenomics, the OMICS-ETHICS Research Group at the University of Montreal performs high-quality research and knowledge transfer in an international context.
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PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. By collaborating with diverse public- and private-sector partners, we help provide appropriate health technologies and vital strategies that change the way people think and act. Our work improves global health and well-being.
PPRC- Pharmaceutical Policy Research Collaboration
The PPRC is a network of university-based experts in pharmaceutical policy. We collaborate to produce and communicate research on issues that matter to Canadians.
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Science and technology studies (STS) examines the influence of society on science and technology, and the influence of science and technology on society. STS Wiki is an experiment in the public production of free, open-source knowledge concerning STS. Our mission is simple: To make STS knowledge, perspectives, and resources available for free, worldwide.
Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
SPRU is a world-leading department where research and high-level policy advice are combined with postgraduate teaching in science, technology, and innovation policy and management.
SSNet brings together faculty and graduate students at the University of Washington who share an interest in Science and Technology Studies (STS):
SCRIPTed is a high-quality, online, international, interdisciplinary and multi-lingual journal of peer-reviewed articles, analysis pieces, case and legislation critiques, as well as commentaries, reports, and book reviews pertaining to law, society, and technologies in the broadest sense.
Situating Science represents the first coordinated effort in targeted knowledge exchange and partnership creation in the study of science and technology in Canada.
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
The main purpose of 4S is to bring together those interested in understanding science, technology, and medicine, including the way they develop and interact with their social contexts.
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Our aim is to examine what is at stake in the work of extending things in the interdigitating realms of technoscience, art, economics, and politics.
A web-based training and capacity building initiative on the ethics of research involving humans conducted in Africa countries
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The purpose of this website is to provide easy access to up-to-date factual information, global policies, best practices and resource documents in the area of immunization safety.
