Selected Topics - General

Events

• School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW - Upcoming Events

Global policies and related documents

Reports, guidelines and projects

Educational resources

• Hesperian Foundation
  The Hesperian Foundation is a non-profit publisher of books and educational materials that help people take the lead in their own health care and organize to improve health conditions in their communities.
• History of Biomedicine
  This site, provided by the Karolinska Institutet Library allows access to a large selection of history of biomedicine resources. It includes articles, manuscripts and web pages on ancient western medicine, indigenous medicine, traditional Chinese, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian medicine, as well as a section on the history of disease.
• History of the Health Sciences WWW Links
  "The purpose of this site from the Medical Library Association is to stimulate and support interest in the history of the health sciences among libraries and librarians."
• ECHO
  The ECHO project, which is based at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media uses the Internet to collect and present the recent history of science, technology, and industry. Echo's research center catalogues, annotates, and reviews sites on the history of science, technology, and industry. You can browse the database of over 5,000 sites by topic, time period or publisher.
• Images from the History of Public Health
  "This exhibit is an online version of Images from the History of the Public Health Service; A Photographic Exhibit by Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D. printed in 1994 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Public Health Service"
• Islamic Medical Manuscripts
  Offered by the National Library of Medicine (USA), this site provides information about Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe. It includes biographies, colorful images, and extensive historical accounts of medieval medicine and science.
• John Snow
  "This site offered by Ralph R. Frerichs is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology"
• Public Health and Health Care Administration: Glossary of Terms
  The public health terms defined on this site, which is provided by the University of Washington School of Public Health come from a variety of sources including MeSH (National Library of Medicine - Medical Subject Headings). Full references are given at the end of the glossary.
• Public Health Grand Rounds
  Public Health Grand Rounds is a series of satellite broadcasts and webcasts presenting real-world case studies on public health issues. Its purpose is to promote a leadership-level, professional dialogue on emerging, news-breaking issues of strategic significance. It is a collaborative effort between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Partners in the program include the Association of Schools of Public Health, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Public Health Training Network.
• 'This is Public Health' Toolkit
  "Most people don't understand what public health is, much less how it impacts their daily lives. The “This Is Public Health” campaign was designed to let people know that public health affects them on a daily basis and that we are only as healthy as the world we live in. The campaign utilizes stickers with the slogan “This is Public Health” placed in strategic locations around communities to build awareness of the many ways in which public health impacts our well being. … As part of the “This is Public Health” campaign, ASPH has developed the ‘This is Public Health’ toolkit to which will serve as a resource for anyone who is interested in educating others about public health issues or the field of public health. The materials in the toolkit are suggestions or templates, which can either be used as is, or tailored to suit your specific audiences. The toolkit also includes links for other sources that can increase knowledge of public health both inside and outside of the classroom. Through the toolkit, we hope to provide a hub containing more information on both the “This is Public Health” campaign and the field as a whole. Materials will be provided that target a range of individuals, accommodating varying age groups and differing levels of familiarity with the field of public health."

Organisations and Networks

UN and multinational

Government

• Australian Government - Department of Health and Ageing

Non Government

• American Public Health Association
  "APHA is concerned with a broad set of issues affecting personal and environmental health, including federal and state funding for health programs, pollution control, programs and policies related to chronic and infectious diseases, a smoke-free society, and professional education in public health".
• Canadian Association for the History of Nursing
  The mission of CAHN is to promote interest in the history of nursing and to develop scholarship in the field. AHN is a charitable organization founded in 1987, and is an affiliate group of the Canadian Nurses Association.
• Center for the History of Medicine (University of Michigan, USA)
  "This site's mission is to promote dialogue on issues related to health and society in university, medical, and lay communities; and to preserve and make accessible materials related to the history of medicine, biomedical research, public health, nursing, and medical and hospital administration".
• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
  "The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Machester (England) was founded in 1986 to bring together the University's interest in history of science and medicine, and to act as a focus for the discipline in the Manchester region and beyond".
• European Public Health Association
  "EPHA is an international, multidisciplinary scientific organisation, bringing together public health workers for professional exchange of information and collaboration throughout Europe. EUPHA was founded in 1992 and now has 21 members from 19 different countries"
• International Network for the History of Public Health
  The focus of the INHPH is to promote the study of the history of collective efforts for the improvement of the health of populations from antiquity to modernity with particular emphasis on the interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between ideas on public health, organizations created to carry out these ideas, their implementation, and their social and demographic consequences".
• National Self-Help Clearinghouse (USA)
  "The National Self- Help Clearinghouse is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1976 to facilitate access to self-help groups and increase the awareness of the importance of mutual support"
• NSW Health: Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice
  The Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice (CHRCJ) was formed in 2003 and arose out of the need to establish a centre of excellence to conduct quantitative research in the areas of prisoner health, and health matters that impact on, and are impacted on by, the criminal justice system. The CHRCJ is the only organisation in the world devoted to the study of prisoner health issues; its work is recognised at the national and international level.
• World Federation of Public Health Associations
  The World Federation of Public Health Associations is an international, nongovernmental organization bringing health workers throughout the world together for professional exchange, collaboration, and action. Its members, currently numbering 67, are multidisciplinary national and regional public health societies whose own memberships include nurses, sanitarians, administrators, physicians, health educators, pharmacists, anthropologists, researchers, and many other persons interested in public health.

Academic Institutions with particular focus in this area

Key Conferences, conference and workshop reports

Conference reports

• 11th World Congress on Public Health and the 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health
  The 11th World Congress on Public Health, and the 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health were presented by the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) and the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 21-25th, 2006. The Congress theme was “Public Health in a Globalized World: Breaking down Political, Social and Economic Barriers”.

Journals, Newsletters, Forums

• Global Public Health
  Global Public Health is a new peer-reviewed journal that hopes to energetically engage with key public health issues that have come to the fore in the global environment — mounting inequalities between rich and poor; the globalization of trade; new patterns of travel and migration; epidemics of newly-emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the increase in chronic illnesses; escalating pressure on public health infrastructures around the world; and the growing range and scale of conflict situations, terrorist threats, environmental pressures, natural and human-made disasters.
• KaiserNetwork.org
  The mission of the Kaiser Family Foundation is to provide timely, reliable, and non-partisan information on national health issues to policymakers, the media, and the general public. To advance that mission, the Foundation established kaisernetwork.org in November 2000. 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.
• Public Health Reports
  PHR is a peer-reviewed journal offering articles in three main areas: public health practice, research, and viewpoints/ commentaries. The journal tackles such topics as tobacco control, teenage violence, occupational disease and injury, immunization, drug policy, lead screening, health disparities, and many other key issues. PubMed Central provides online access to the journal from Vol.89 (1974).
• Social Medicine
  "Social Medicine is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed academic forum for the development and promotion of Social Medicine.... The journal aims to act as a forum for research and teaching concerning the ways in which social factors not only influence health and disease but are in turn altered by health and disease. "
• VLPH list of Public Health Journals
• PLoS Clinical Trials
  PLoS Clinical Trials is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal that will publish results of Phase III and late Phase II human clinical trials from all medical and public health disciplines. PLoS Clinical Trials will be launched in late 2005.

Bibliographies, Libraries

Public health bookshops

• Public Health bookshop