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Urban Public Health: Other Interesting Public Health Resources

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

Readings in the History of Public Health

Contagion : Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
A fascinating collection of historical materials from Harvard University. Contains many digitized early manuscripts.
Delta Omega Classics
A collection of public health classics in full text

Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion by Emily K. Abel
Rutgers University Press, 2008.

The Practice of Public Health

Knowledge Domains of Public Health
This is an amazing list of the scope of the public health profession.
Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
From the Public Health Foundation, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice
Evidence-Based Practice Tutorial : Public Health
This tutorial guides you through the EBPH process, and provides links to outside resources. From the University of Wisconsin.
Advancing the Nation's Health : A Guide to Public Health Research Needs 2006-2015.
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
The University of Washington School of Public Health offers an extensive collection of online courses, archived webinars and tools. Most are free.

Transforming Public Health Practice : Leadership and Management Essentials by Bernard J. Healey; Cheryll D. Lesneski
Jossey-Bass, 2011.
Public Health Foundations : Concepts and Practices by Elena Andresen (Editor); Erin DeFries Bouldin (Editor)
Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Public Health Skills : A Practical Guide for Nurses and Public Health Professionals by Lesley Coles; Elizabeth Porter
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Vulnerable Populations in Other Settings

Vulnerability in Developing Countries by Wim Naudé; Amelia U. Santos-Paulino; Mark McGillivray
United Nations University Press, 2009.
Rural Populations and Health : Determinants, Disparities, and Solutions by Richard A. Crosby; Robin C. Vanderpool; Monica L. Wendel; Baretta R. Casey
Jossey-Bass, 2012.

Other Research Tools

Grey Literature Report
The staff of the New York Academy of Medicine hunts down unpublished information ressources. These are published in a monthly report and stored in a searchable database.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
A large collection of dissertations to search and download. In many subject areas, from many universities.
BioMedSearch.com
A database of freely available NIH reports, theses and dissertations and journal articles. You must create a free account to use.
Public Health Image Library
From the US CDC. Most of these images are in the public domain, but refer to the "Copyright restrictions" box at the bottom of each page to make sure.

E-books on Race and Racism in America

Race and Ethnicity in America : A Concise History by Ronald H. Bayor
Columbia University Press, 2003.
Black and Blue : The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
University of California Press, 2012.
Body and Soul : The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Advanced Statistical Techniques and Other Statistics Topics

Mathematical Models in Infectious Disease Epidemiology by Peter J. White
Chapter 5 in Jonathan Cohen; William G. Powderly; Steven M. Opal, Infectious Diseases. 4th ed., Elsevier, 2017.
Why Nobody Believes the Numbers : Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in Population Health Management by Al Lewis
John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Large Scale Projects in eHealth : Partnership in Modernization by Bernd Blobel, Rolf Engelbrecht, and Michael A. Shifrin
IOS Press 2012.
Modern Analysis of Customer Surveys by Silvia Salini; Ron S. Kenett
Wiley, 2011.
Multivariate Analysis for the Biobehavioral and Social Sciences : A Graphical Approach by Linda Gask; Bulent Coskun; David Baron; Bruce L. Brown; Dawson W. Hedges; Suzanne B. Hendrix; Timothy B. Smith
Wiley, 2012.
News and Numbers : A Writer's Guide to Statistics by Lewis Cope; Victor Cohn; Deborah Cohn Runkle (As told to)
3rd ed., Wiley Blackwell, 2012.
Spatial Analysis along Networks by Atsuyuki Okabe; Kokichi Sugihara
Wiley, 2012.
Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences : Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Survival Analysis, and Bioinformatics by Atanu Biswas; Sujay Datta; Mark R. Segal; Jason P. Fine
Wiley, 2008.
Visualization of Spatial Social Structure by Daniel Dorling
Wiley, 2012.