Public Health Resources

The following is a selective list of Internet resources that focus on the interests of public health students and professionals. The sites have been selected by the HS/HSL liaison to the School of Public Health. The selection criteria used to choose the following sites may also be of use to you when evaluating any web site. If you have any suggestions for additional sites or if you are unable to access a site, please send an email message to hshsl@umaryland.edu.

Library Liaison for the UMB School of Public Health
Debra Berlanstein, MLS
dberlans@hshsl.umaryland.edu
(410) 706-8862

Academic Public Health Libraries

• Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Lilienfeld Library
• Harvard University School of Public Health, Countway Library
• University of California, Berkeley, Sheldon Margen Public Health Library
• University of Michigan Public Health Library
• University of Washington Health Sciences Library Public Health Toolkit

Databases

The following is a selected list chosen from the HS/HSL list of Databases

• Ageline
• AIDSLINE
• Cochrane Library (EBM Reviews, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), ACP Journal Club, and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register)
• HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
• HealthSTAR (Health administration, health policy, health economics)
• HSRProj - Ongoing grants and contracts in health services research from NLM
• Journal Citation Reports
• MEDLINE (via OVID, 1996-present)
• PsycINFO
• PubMed (with HS/HSL links)
• Social Services Abstracts
• TOXNET
• Web of Science (Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes)

Data Resources and Statistics

• HS/HSL Statistics Resources - Very complete list of links to statistics by subject area.
• Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System
• Data Compendium (Medicare)
• DHHS Data Council Gateway to Data and Statistics
  
• Fast Stats A-Z
• FedStats
• HEALTHmap - outbreak data integrated with Google Maps for current 30 days
  
• HCUPnet (AHRQ)
  
• Healthfinder
• International Data Base (U.S. Census Bureau)
  
• Public Health Image Library - PHIL (CDC)
• SEER (National Cancer Institute)
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
• WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information System)

Evidence-Based Public Health

• Evidence-Based Public Health (UMAB)
• Evidence-Based Public Health Project, UMass Medical School
• Evidence-Based Public Health Nursing
• E-Roadmap to Evidence Based Public Health Practice
• National Guideline Clearinghouse

Journals

• Journals - full list of journals provided by the HS/HSL

  Selected Titles:

• American Journal of Epidemiology
• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
• American Journal of Public Health
• Annual Review of Public Health
• BMC Public Health
• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
• Epidemiology
• Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Public Health Reports
• Social Science & Medicine
• Statistics in Medicine

Public Health Organizations and Resources

• American College of Preventive Medicine
• American Public Health Association
• Association of Prevention Teaching and Research
• Association of Schools of Public Health
• CDC, Advancing the Nation's Public Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015
• CEPH, Council on Education for Public Health (accrediting agency)
• HealthWeb-Public Health
• Institute of Medicine
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• Medscape Public Health & Prevention
• National Library of Medicine-Health Services Research and Public Health
• Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
• Public Health Foundation
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Schools of Public Health

• University of Maryland, Baltimore
• Boston University
• Columbia University
• Emory University
• Harvard School of Public Health
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• San Diego State University
• St. Louis University
• Tulane University
• University of Albany (SUNY)
• UCLA
• University of California at Berkeley
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Massachusetts
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of South Carolina
• University of South Florida
• University of Texas
• University of Washington
• Yale University

State and Local Resources

• Baltimore City Health Department
• Baltimore County Department of Health
• Healthy Maryland 2010
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Maryland Public Health Association