The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology. The collections stand at 5 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old (pre-1914) and rare medical texts, manuscripts, and incunabula.

The Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP) has been addressing broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide. Through a combination of cultural competency trainings, interpreter trainings, research projects, community coalition building, and other services, the Cross Cultural Health Care Program serves as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.

Healthy People 2010 is a national health promotion and disease prevention initiative.Its goals are to increase the quality and years of healthy life and eliminate health disparities. Healthy People 2010 challenges individuals, communities, and professionals—indeed, all of us—to take specific steps to ensure that good health, as well as long life, are enjoyed by all.

The American Medical Association (AMA) helps physicians help patients by uniting physicians nationwide and medical students to work on the most important professional and public health issues.

The Office of Minority Health (OMH) advises the Secretary and the OPHS on public health issues affecting American Indians, and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Blacks/African Americans, and Hispanics/Latinos. Its mission is to improve the health of racial and ethnic populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health.