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Below are selective internet resources on Public Health Informatics generated from the members of the Public Health Informatics Electronic Journal Club.

Compiled by Carolyn Bridgewater, Health Sciences Library, Louisiana State University and Kristine Alpi, Weill Cornell Medical Library. Send suggestions/additions to kalpi@att.net.

EVENTS IN PHI

[Past Event:] Public Health Informatics and Distance Learning Conference [Ed. note: Link no longer active, 3/14/05]
August 5-7, 2001 / Columbus, OH
The theme of this year's conference is “Transforming Promise to Practice.”

Past Event: Developing a National Agenda for Public Health Informatics [Ed. note: Updated link 3/14/05]
2001 Spring Congress of the American Medical Informatics Association
May 15–17, 2001 / Atlanta, Georgia / Hilton Atlanta and Towers

OVERVIEW

Public Health Informatics: Current Bibliographies in Medicine 2001-2.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/phi2001.html

January 1996 through December 2000 update of first bibliography listed below.

Public Health Informatics: Current Bibliographies in Medicine 96-4
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/phinform.html

The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) resource list and bibliography on Public Health Informatics which was developed in 1996.

Partners in Information Access for Public Health Information - Texas Project
http://www3.utsouthwestern.edu/library/public_health/main.html [Ed. note: Link no longer active]

This project was funded by Partners in Information Access in Public Health. It contains a model for public health informatics curriculum and defines public health informatics.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN PHI

Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/index.htm

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
http://phpartners.org

Collaborative project to provide public health professionals about current public health informatics training, funded through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Informatics Training Curriculum for Public Health Advisors
http://faculty.washington.edu/ocarroll/infrmatc/home.htm

Patrick O'Carroll, MD, MPH, designed this training program to teach about the application of information science and technology to public health practice and research.

Schools/Universities

University of Maryland, College Park, Graduated Certificate in Public Health Informatics
http://www.onlinestudies.umd.edu/phi/

University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health - Online MPH in Public Health Informatics
http://www.uic.edu/sph/phi/

Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
http://www.sph.emory.edu/bios/phi.html

A description of the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University Masters' program in Public Health Informatics.

Public Health Informatics Course at Texas A&M University
http://msl.tamu.edu/MSL/InfoRsrc/Curriculum/SRPH/PHEB640.htm [Ed. note: Link no longer active, 3/14/05]

Health Informatics Program - University of Alabama-Birmingham
http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=33489 [Ed. note: Updated link 3/14/05]

Public Health Informatics - University of Washington
http://phig.washington.edu/

Resource Center Academic & Training Programs - American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/resource/acad&training/f1.html

ORGANIZATIONS

Prevention and Public Health Special Interest Group (AMIA)
http://www.amia.org/working/pph/main.html [Ed. note: Updated link 3/14/05]

National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS)
http://www.naphsis.org/

An association of public health professionals in the United States concerned about vital records and health statistics. Membership is restricted. The association is involved in informatics projects such as the Electronic Death Registration Project.

Public Health Links from HealthWeb
http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=80

PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS IN PRACTICE

Health Alert Network
http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/han/

Sample Resources:

Community Health Information System - Center for Health Policy Studies at the University of Texas School of Public Health
http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/champs/ [Ed. note: Updated link 3/14/05]

Health Information Tennessee
http://hit.state.tn.us/ [Ed. note: Updated link 12/18/06]

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/ [Ed. note: Updated link 3/14/05]

PUBLICATIONS

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Volume 7. Issue 6. Topic issue on public health informatics.

Yasnoff WA, O'Carroll PW, Koo D, Linkins RW & Kilbourne EM. Public Health Informatics: Improving and Transforming Public Health in the Information Age. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2000 Nov; 67-75.

Flatley Brennan, Patricia & Andrew Friede. Public Health and Consumer Uses of Health Information: Education, Research, Policy, Prevention and Quality Assurance. In Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 2nd ed. Shortliffe, E.H. & Perreault, L.E. (Ed). New York: Springer, 2001.

Friede, Andrew & Patrick W. O'Carroll. Public Health Informatics. (pgs 59-65). In Maxcy-Rosenau-Last's Public Health & Preventive Medicine 14th edition [1998].

Section on Public Health (pgs 94-102) in Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000. Available online at http://www.nap.edu/books/0309068436/html/

Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health. Proceedings of a national forum. March 23, 1998. Journal of Urban Health 1998 Dec;75(4)
Presentations from the forum are available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/nyam/nyam.html.

Perrin, Edward B.; Durch, Jane S.; Skillman, Susan M. (Eds.); Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants, National Research Council. Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector: Principles and Policies for Implementing an Information Network. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999.
Available online: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/6487.html

Olmstadt W, Hannigan GG. Designing and Delivering a Public Health Informatics Course. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. Fall 2000. Available online: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-fall/article4.html

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