Public Health Resources

https://www.cdc.gov/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The site provides information and links to subjects including travelers' health, health topics A-Z, data and statistics, and publications, software and products.

https://familydoctor.org/
The information within familydoctor.org has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the American Academy of Family Physicians. Topics include health and wellness, drug information, herbal and alternative remedies, and self-care.

https://hivinfo.nih.gov/home-page
HIVinfo is an online resource offering up-to-date HIV/AIDS information to the general consumer, people with HIV/AIDS, people recently diagnosed and those who care for them.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/
MayoClinic.com includes information on specific diseases and conditions, prescription and over-the-counter drugs, a first-aid guide, and more. Interactive tools are also included, such as exercise and stress management planners.

https://dl.acm.org/
ACM has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, published between 1951 and the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library.
ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics. In addition to articles published between 1951 and 2000, ACM has also opened related and supplemental materials including data sets, software, slides, audio recordings, and videos.

https://www.annfammed.org/
The Annals of Family Medicine is a peer-reviewed research journal dedicated to advancing knowledge essential to understanding and improving health and primary care. The Annals seeks to identify and address important questions in health and the provision of patient-centered, prioritized, high-quality health care. It publishes original research, methodology, and theory, and essays.

https://www.who.int/publications/journals/bulletin/
Bulletin of the World Health Organization: The International Journal of Public Health publishes and disseminates scientifically rigorous public health information of international significance.

https://diabetesjournals.org/care
Diabetes Care is a journal for the health care practitioner intended to increase knowledge, stimulate research, and promote better management of people with diabetes. Users have access to tables of contents, abstracts and full text searching without having to register.

https://www.doaj.org/
This independent database contains over 15,000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion.

https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/open-access-journals
From the Elsevier website: “All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.”

https://harvardpublichealth.org/
Quarterly publication from the Harvard School of Public Health.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/publications/hopkins-medicine-magazine/issues
Published three times a year by Johns Hopkins Medicine. Article topics include treatment advances and medical research at Johns Hopkins and as well as campus issues and historical highlights of the medical center.

https://www.ippf.org/resources
From the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the IPPF Medical Bulletin provides up-to-date and unbiased information on clinical, service delivery and managerial aspects in family planning and sexual and reproductive health.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/headlines
The Public Health News Center is a service of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Office of Communications and Public Affairs. It features news releases and other information from the School of Public Health and links to current public health news information from a variety of sources.

https://plos.org/
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) makes it possible for scientists and researchers to share their discoveries with each other and the public. PLoS promotes a model of scientific publishing that makes scientific biomedical publications freely available to read and use online.

https://www.arthritis.org/
The Arthritis Foundation is the only national not-for-profit organization that supports the more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions with advocacy, programs, services and research.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. In New York City, the Fund makes grants to improve health care and enhance public spaces and services.

https://hospicefoundation.org/
The Hospice Foundation of America is a not-for-profit organization that provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care. Hospice Foundation of America assists those who cope either personally or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief.

https://www.nihcm.org/
The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation is a professional, nonprofit organization that sponsors and conducts research on health care issues. The website provides links to research papers, conferences and forums, and serves as a clearinghouse for information.

https://www.nsf.gov/
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the U.S. Government. NSF's mission is to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense.It initiates and supports scientific and engineering research and programs to strengthen scientific and engineering research potential and education programs at all levels, including awarding grants and fellowships. NSF serves as a central clearinghouse for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data on scientific and technical resources in the United States, and provides a source of information for policy formulation by other Federal agencies.

https://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp
This is the website of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans. The foundation supports training, education, research (excluding biomedical research), and projects that demonstrate the effective delivery of health care services. The site allows searching in a variety of areas, including granting opportunities and guidelines, publications, and information related to specific health concerns.

https://www.komen.org/
The mission of the Susan G. Komen Foundation is to eradicate breast cancer as a life threatening disease by advancing research, education, screening and treatment. The foundation raises some $600 million annually to fund breast cancer research.

https://www.hhs.gov/
This US Department of Health and Human Services site leads to information on diseases and conditions; safety and wellness; drug and food information; disasters and emergencies; grants and funding; reference collections; families and children; aging; specific populations; resource locators, and policies and regulations.

https://kidshealth.org/
KidsHealth provides health information about children from conception through adolescence. It provides accurate, current, jargon-free health information. The website creators seek to make all KidsHealth content understandable, accessible, reliable, practical and objective

https://www.mchlibrary.org/
The Maternal and Child Health Library is part of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH), at Georgetown University. NCEMCH provides leadership and knowledge related to MCH issues to help policymakers, public health professionals, and the public, make informed decisions about services, programs, and policies.

https://www.nsc.org/
The National Safety Council is an advocate for safety and health. It educates and influences society to adopt policies, practices and procedures that prevent and mitigate preventable human suffering and economic losses.

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/intermediateredirectforezproxy
This is the most comprehensive business database available today, and comprises three separate databases: ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. The combined package includes over 7,800 journal titles, and can be searched all at once. Subjects covered include business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques and competitive and product information, both nationally and internationally. Browse a list of titles available in ABI/INFORM Complete. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni. Please contact the Hopkins KnowledgeNET librarian for further information.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/intermediateredirectforezproxy
ProQuest's Alumni Research Library contains over 5,300 journal titles across all subject disciplines, including arts, business, education, humanities, literature, political science and psychology. For many of these journals, citations and abstracts are available from 1971 to the present. Full text coverage varies by journal, but typically begins with the mid-1990s. Browse a list of titles included in ProQuest Research Library. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

https://www-annualreviews-org.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scholarly professionals with a definitive academic resource in 45 disciplines in the life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

https://britishonlinearchives.com/
BOA provides researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents. The JHU subscription includes: Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation,1689-1907; Colonial Africa in official statistics,1821-1953; Slavery in Jamaica, records from a family of slave owners,1686-1860; South Africa in records from colonial missionaries,1819-1900; and The West Indies: slavery, plantations and trade,1759-1832.

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/intermediateredirectforezproxy
This is a health and medical database from ProQuest for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

https://go-gale-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/ps/start.do?p=GDCS&u=jhu_alum
Primary sources from over 48 databases covering everything from literature to historic newspapers to public health archives to Indigenous Peoples of North America and more. Searchable separately or all at once.

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/intermediateredirectforezproxy
Provides full text and full image articles for nearly 2,000 key biomedical journals. It has a powerful search interface with 17 searchable fields, and it uses the MeSH subject thesaurus. Full text/full image coverage dates from 1992. Browse a list of titles included in Proquest Medical Library. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!

https://data-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
SAGE Data, formerly Data Planet, is a collection of billions of multidisciplinary, global statistics for research and instruction. It is a data aggregation tool that allows you to create custom tables and charts.

https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Provides full-text access to over 1,000 scholarly and professional journals spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.

https://sk-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Sage's ebook platform, where you will find a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including Health & Social Care and Public Health topics.

https://methods-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Description from website: “SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research. Built upon SAGE’s legacy of methods publishing, SAGE Research Methods is the essential online tool for researchers.”

https://methods-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/cases

Description from website: “SAGE Research Methods Cases are stories of how real research projects were conducted. The collection provides more than 1100 case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves.  They explain why the researchers chose the methods they did, how they overcame problems in their research and what they might have done differently with hindsight: the realities of research that are missing from journal articles and textbooks. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions. They can be used as a teaching tool to demonstrate a particular method and how it is applied in real research, or as inspiration to students who are preparing for their own research project.”

https://acl.gov/
This Administration for Community Living website leads to statistics, health care recommendations, research on aging, and resources available for caregivers and others.

https://aannet.org/?
The American Academy of Nursing is an organization of leaders in nursing who have been recognized by their peers for outstanding contributions to the profession and to health care.

https://www.aap.org/
The American Academy of Pediatrics promotes optimal physical, mental and social health and well-being for all children.

https://www.cancer.org/
The American Cancer Society supports education and research in cancer prevention, diagnosis, detection, and treatment. Its web page provides news, information on types of cancer, patient services, treatment options, sections on children with cancer and living with cancer, and cancer statistics. The site is available in English and Spanish.

https://diabetes.org/
American Diabetes Association website offers information in support of its mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

https://www.heart.org/
The official web site of the American Heart Association, with warning signs for heart disease and stroke, a reference guide, a legislative action package, family health information, risk awareness, scientific and professional information, solicitation options for volunteers, local AHA chapters, and donations. The site includes public advocacy pages with legislative priorities.

https://www.ama-assn.org/
The American Medical Association (AMA) is the nation's leader in promoting professionalism in medicine and setting standards for medical education, practice, and ethics.

https://www.apta.org/
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is a national professional organization. Its goal is to foster advancements in physical therapy practice, research, and education.

https://www.apha.org/
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations of public health. The American Public Health Association website includes links to publications, forums, continuing education and training opportunities and career services. Student memberships are available to public health students.

https://www.redcross.org/
The American Red Cross website provides information about its domestic and international relief and public health services and events.

https://www.stroke.org/
The American Stroke Association is the division of the American Heart Association that's focused on reducing disability and death from stroke through research, education, fundraising and advocacy. The site includes a heart and stroke encyclopedia with information on conditions, medications, surgical procedures, etc.

https://clinicians.org/
ACU (the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved) is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary organization that improves the health of underserved populations by enhancing the development and support of the health care clinicians serving these populations.

https://www.cpha.ca/
The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is a national, independent, not-for-profit, voluntary association representing public health in Canada with links to the international public health community.

https://www.csih.org/
The Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) is a national non-governmental organization committed to the promotion of international health and development. CSIH serves as the technical representative in Canada for the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization's regional office.

https://www.cartercenter.org/
The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.

https://www.familiesusa.org/
FamiliesUSA is a consumer voice for health reform. It is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

https://www.fema.gov/
The Federal Emergency Management is tasked with responding to, planning for, recovering from and mitigating against disasters.

https://www.icaa.ch/
The International Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA) brings together many national bodies and professionals in different disciplines who exchange knowledge, ideas, advice, guidance, expertise, and research.

https://www.istm.org/
The International Society of Travel Medicine is dedicated to the advancement of the specialty of travel medicine. Access to much of the web site requires paid membership.

https://msh.org/
Management Sciences for Health is an organization that works to close the gap between what is known about public health problems and what is done to solve them. MSH is organized into centers that provide technical assistance in health services; health reform and financing; leadership and management, and pharmaceutical management.

https://www.cancer.gov/
This site provides information from the National Cancer Institute, a research arm of the National Institutes of Health. It includes treatment options, clinical trials, ways to reduce cancer risk, ways to cope with cancer, and resources for researchers and health care professionals. Content categories include cancer information, clinical trials, statistics, research programs, and research funding. NCI programs involve principal investigators who lead research projects to understand cancer and develop better ways to prevent, detect and diagnose, treat, and control it.

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/
The website of The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCCIH supports research on complementary, alternative and integrative health/medicine, trains researchers, and disseminates information on a variety of modalities.

https://www.neha.org/
The National Environmental Health Association, a professional association with 5,000 members was formed as a national professional society for environmental health practitioners.

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/index.html
The Office of the Surgeon General is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Under the Surgeon General, the Office protects and advances the health of the nation; advocates for effective disease prevention and health promotion; symbolizes national commitment to protecting and improving the public's health, and articulates policy analysis and advice to the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on public health, medical, and health system issues.

https://www.paho.org/en
PAHO is the Pan American Health Organization, a branch of the World Health Organization. PAHO disseminates scientific and technical information through its publications program, its Internet site, and a network of academic libraries, documentation centers, and local health care libraries. Both quick and full-text searching is available through the web site.

https://wfmh.global/
The World Federation for Mental Health is a non-profit advocacy organization that advances prevention of mental and emotional disorders, proper treatment and care of those with such disorders, and promotes mental health.

https://www.who.int/en/
The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. WHO works for the highest possible level of health for all. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/resources/healthfindergov
Healthfinder is a federal web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Contains resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring users the best, most reliable health information on the Internet. Includes health news, searchable tools, information about health care reform, find services near you, shopping lists, and additional resources.

https://odphp.health.gov/healthypeople
"Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Healthy People 2030 includes 358 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and research objectives." (from website)

https://medlineplus.gov/
MedlinePlus, from the National Library of Medicine has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other sources on over 600 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, information on drugs, health information from the media, and links to clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/
This gateway site to the National Library of Medicine leads users to books, journals and audiovisuals in the NLM collections, to MEDLINE/PubMed, NLM's database of citations to medical journal articles, to MEDLINEplus, NLM's consumer health web site, and to other NLM databases and resources.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Click here to view a short video about this topic. PubMed is a publicly-available database that provides citations and abstracts to millions of biomedical journal articles. It also includes full-text articles from Open Access (OA) and freely-available journals. PubMed itself does not provide full-text access to commercially published articles. As students, you were able to access medical articles because the library had subscriptions to the journals in PubMed and created the links to the articles, but that behind-the-scenes work was transparent to you. Access is not available after your JHED ID expires.

In HKNET, we have a database called ProQuest Medical Database that has full-text articles from nearly 2,000 medical journals routinely cited in Medline. You can run your searches in PubMed and then look up the citations in ProQuest Medical Database using the “Find a Journal” search. Or, you can simply run your subject/author searches in ProQuest Medical Database and view full-text articles from your results list. PubMed is produced by the National Library of Medicine. NLM produces a companion database called PubMedCentral that has over 6 million freely available full-text articles.

https://www.samhsa.gov/
SAMHSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health Services. The Substance Abuse Health Services Administration improves the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society from substance abuse and mental illnesses.

https://www.epa.gov/
US Environmental Protection Agency web site.

https://www.ahrq.gov/gam/index.html
"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of healthcare for all Americans. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the healthcare system and help consumers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions." (from website)

https://www.nationalacademies.org/
The National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine are private, non-profit, membership organizations that advise the federal government, upon request and without fee, on questions of science and technology.

https://prba.isr.umich.edu/
The Program for Research on Black Americans was established in 1976 at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. PRBA collects, analyzes, and interprets empirical data on African Americans as well as international data on people of African descent. The program provides research and training opportunities for social scientists and students of color.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Click here to view a short video about this topic. PubMed is a publicly-available database that provides citations and abstracts to millions of biomedical journal articles. It also includes full-text articles from Open Access (OA) and freely-available journals. PubMed itself does not provide full-text access to commercially published articles. As students, you were able to access medical articles because the library had subscriptions to the journals in PubMed and created the links to the articles, but that behind-the-scenes work was transparent to you. Access is not available after your JHED ID expires.

In HKNET, we have a database called ProQuest Medical Database that has full-text articles from nearly 2,000 medical journals routinely cited in Medline. You can run your searches in PubMed and then look up the citations in ProQuest Medical Database using the “Find a Journal” search. Or, you can simply run your subject/author searches in ProQuest Medical Database and view full-text articles from your results list. PubMed is produced by the National Library of Medicine. NLM produces a companion database called PubMedCentral that has over 6 million freely available full-text articles.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
"PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature." Includes full-text access to BMJ.com, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and over two thousand other journals. Click here to view a short video about this topic. 

https://www.rand.org/
RAND is a nonprofit think tank that improves policy and decision-making through objective analysis and research. RAND serves both the private and public sector by providing enterprise analysis, survey research, research communications, statistical analysis and information sciences.

https://www.childstats.gov/
This web site offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education. A special section, called The Forum, fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of Federal efforts to collect and report data on conditions and trends for children and families. (from the website)

https://www.who.int/data/gho
The World Health Organization's gateway to health-related statistics for more than 1000 indicators for its 194 Member States.

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/
From the KFF website; provides data on COVID-19, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the federal government's principal agency for vital statistics and health statistics. It is the source for health statistics, surveys, and analysis. With legislative authority and mandates, it provides advice and information alerts for individuals.

https://data.sagepub.com/
SAGE Data, formerly Data Planet, is a collection of billions of multidisciplinary, global statistics for research and instruction. It is a data aggregation tool that allows you to create custom tables and charts.

https://www.kff.org/statedata/
Provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. Statehealthfacts.org provides state-level data on more than 500 health topics. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses. From the Kaiser Family Foundation.

https://wdi.umich.edu/
From the website: "The William Davidson Institute (WDI) is a non-profit research and educational institute established at the University of Michigan in 1992...WDI is the only institution of higher learning in the United States that is fully dedicated to understanding and promoting actionable business and public policy approaches to addressing the challenges and opportunities in emerging market economies."