LibGuides at the CDU Health Sciences Library: Public Health: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Epidemiology E-books

Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health by Joann G. Elmore; Dorothea Wild; David L. Katz; Heidi D. Nelson
5th ed., Elsevier, 2020.
A Dictionary of Epidemiology by Miquel Porta
6th ed., Oxford University Press, 2014.
Medical Epidemiology : Population Health and Effective Health Care by Raymond Greenberg; Stephen Daniels; W. Flanders; John Eley; John Boring
5th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2015.
Gordis Epidemiology by David D. Celentano; Moyses Szklo
7th ed. Elsevier, 2025.

E-books on Statistical Methods

Statistical Inference : A Short Course by Michael J. Panik
John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Understanding Biostatistics by Anders Källén
Wiley, 2011.
Basic & Clinical Biostatistics: by Susan White
5th ed., Lange/McGraw-Hill, 2020.
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.
Statistical Methods in Healthcare by Frederick W. Faltin; Fabrizio Ruggeri; Ron Kenett
John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health by Lisa M. Sullivan
3rd ed., Jones & Bartlett, 2018.
Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Health Care by Jennifer Peat; Belinda Barton; Elizabeth Elliott
John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

About Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Epidemiology and Biostatistics are the core analytical tools used by Public Health professionals. This page contains links to ebooks in the CDU collection on these topics.

In addition, many of the other pages in the Urban Public Health Libguide also contain materials that are relevant to these analytical funtions. These materials are linked below.

Finally, there is resource box for materials on the traditional role of biosurveillance and outbreak investigation and another on additonal materials that are not in another libguide.

Resource Box: Biosurveillance and Outbreak Investigation

Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook by Jeremy Hawker; Norman Begg; Obaghe Edeghere; Karl Ekdahl; Ralf Reintjes; Jim E. van Steenbergen
4rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2019.
Emerging Infectious Diseases : A Guide to Diseases, Causative Agents, and Surveillance by Lisa A. Beltz
Jossey-Bass, 2011.
BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance : Evaluating Systems for the Early Detection of Biological Threats: Abbreviated Versio
National Academies Press, 2011.
Outbreaks, Epidemics and Investigation by Lennox K. Archibald
Chapter 1 in C. Glen Mayhall, Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control. 4th ed., LWW, 2012.
Epidemiologic Surveillance and Epidemic Outbreak Investigation by Joann G. Elmore; Dorothea M.G. Wild; Heidi D. Nelson and David L. Katz
Chapter 3 of Elmore, Joann G., Wild, Dorothea, Katz, David L, Nelson, Heidi L. . Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health, 5th ed., Elsevier, 2020.
Handbook of Biosurveillance by Michael M. Wagner; Andrew W. Moore; Ron M. Aryel
Academic Press/Elsevier, 2006.

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Epidemiology Journals

American Journal of Epidemiology
Online 1996 to present. Print 1986-2005.
Annals of Epidemiology
Online 1995 to present.
Epidemiology
Online 1990 to present.
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Online 2007 to present.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Online 1979 to present.
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports
Online 1982 to present.

Resource Box: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Epiville
Put your epidemiology skills to work in the town of Epiville. A collection of interactive excercises. From Columbia University.

Measuring Health and Health Care by Carolyn M. Clancy and Ernest Moy
Chapter 9 of Goldman, Lee, Schafer, Andrew J., Goldman-Cecil Medicine, 26th ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2020.