Public Health

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Reviews

• PubMed Find peer-reviewed articles using this major database; search using key words, focused medical subject headings, ethnicities, geographic terms. Save and share results using MyNCBI. 
• Embase A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database that also covers topics on health policy and environmental health.
• PsycInfo Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports from professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
• Web of Science Find articles from the top soci-economic and biomedical journals; use the analysis feature to identify which organizations or researchers are the most productive.

Electronic Textbooks

• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors
• Health, United States, 2007
• Intolerable Burden of Malaria
• Mandell's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases
• Oxford Texbook of Public Health

Organizations-Studies and Research

• American Public Health Association
• Centers for Disease Control
• Healthy People 2010
• National Institutes of Health
• Partners in Information Access for Health Information

Statistics

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System
• CDC Wonder
• Data.Gov
• National Center for Health Statistics
• State Health Facts
• Statistical Abstract

Developing Competencies

Attend sessions and learn how to effectively and efficiently identify, obtain, and organize the reliable information you will need as a student and in your professional career. Click here for scheduled sessions or contact us via "Ask a Librarian" to organize a session.

• Navigating the Health Sciences Center Library: Introductory session for new Public Health Students to introduce effective methods to quickly access, retrieve, and manage reliable information. Offered Fall Semester.
• PubMed for Public Health: Essential features of major biomedical database; includes effective techniques to search for and locate articles, how to narrow results, linking to related articles, accessing full-text, how to display, print, and save results.  PubMed Quick Steps
• Thesis Literature Review for Public Health: Overview of literature review process, focusing the topic, finding background information, sources for peer-reviewed studies, identifying and selecting publications, organizing and managing results.
• Systematic Literature Reviews:  Explore the initial planning process and the tools to have in place before beginning a review. Flow Chart and Resources
• EndNote A software system which organizes references and formats citations for papers and theses. To schedule a session for 3 or more people, email medref@listserv.cc.emory.edu or check website for scheduled sessions

Ask for Help

Email "Ask-a-Librarian" (medref@listserv.cc.emory.edu) or call 404-727-8727, or contact your liaison:

• Barbara Abu-Zeid babuzei@emory.edu (EH, GH)
• Carolyn Brown carolyn.m.brown@emory.edu (BIOS, BSHE, EPI, HPM, Career MPH)

Collections of Important Resources

• Environmental Health Resources
• More Resources