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Urban Public Health: Public Health Biology and the Environment

A resource guide for students and faculty in the Urban Public Health program

Groups and Agencies

National Center for Environmental Health
The agency within the US Centers for Disiase Control and Prevention that addresses environmental effects on health. Contains data, reports, and links to other resources.
National Institute of Environmental Health Science
"The mission of the NIEHS is to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives."

Resource Box: Public Health Genomics

Public Health Genomics - Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
Extensive list of information resources on the role of the genome in health.

Genomics and Public Health : Legal and Socio-Ethical Perspectives by Bartha Maria Knoppers
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006
Implications of Genomics for Public Health by Lyla M. Hernandez;
National Academies Press, 2005.

More E-books on Public Health Biology and the Environment

Contested Illnesses by Phil Brown; Rachel Morello-Frosch; Stephen Zavestoski
University of California Press, 2012.
Ecosystem Change and Public Health : A Global Perspective by Joan L. Aron; Jonathan A. Patz
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Environmental Issues for the Twenty-First Century and Their Impact on Human Health by Richard B. Philp
Bentham Science Publishers, 2012
From Pink to Green : Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement by Barbara L. Ley
Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Shoes, Glues and Homework : Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry by Pia Markkanen; Charles Levenstein; Robert Forrant; John Wooding
Baywood Publishing Company, 2009.
Toxic Exposures : Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement by Phil Brown;
Columbia University Press, 2007.

Resource Box: Information on Public Health Biology and the Environment

Environmental Health
From the American Public Health Associaton.

Environmental Health Policy by David Ball
McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2006.

Further Reading on Environmental Health From the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has created several documents on environmental variables that are freely available.

Environmental Burden of Disease Series
Methods and findings for studying the impact of environmental variables on the health of a population
Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease

E-books on Public Health Biology and the Environment

Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States : Building Environmentally Just, Sustainable, and Livable Communities by Robert D. Bullard; Glenn S. Johnson; Angel O. Torres
American Public Health Association, 2011.
Life Support : The Environment and Human Health by Michael McCally
MIT Press, 2002.
Environmental Policy and Public Health : Air Pollution, Global Climate Change, and Wilderness by William N. Rom
Jossey-Bass, 2012.
Human Biology : An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective by Sara Stinson; Barry Bogin; Dennis O'Rourke
2nd ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
The Built Environment and Public Health by Russell P. Lopez
Jossey-Bass, 2012.