Background in Public Health

Created by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) and Pfizer, this website presents

• what public health is (flash presentation overview and link to "Outbreak at Watersedge" game)
• what its impacts are (ten greatest achievements in public health and public health at work today)
• what careers are available (careers and professions and information for prospective students)
• additional resources, and
• FAQs
  

http://www.whatispublichealth.org/index.html


Part of the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) website, these pages contain

• an overview of public health
• core areas of the public health
• other public health fields
• the population approach to public health
• information for prospective students, and
• brief public health leadership videos highlighting six public health visionaries who changed the world through their achievements; these videos are a part of the growing ASPH library of promotional materials for public health, and were created in cooperation with several member schools; RealPlayer is needed to view the videos in their streaming format.

http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=300


Part of the Association of Schools of Public Health's (ASPH) website, this page contains a direct link to each of six public health leadership videos highlighting public health visionaries who changed the world through their achievements; these videos are a part of the growing ASPH library of promotional materials for public health, and were created in cooperation with several member schools; RealPlayer is needed to view the videos in their streaming format.
http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=793


From Pfizer Public Health Group, this website describes Pfizer's programs in public health and includes links to the following publications, which can be ordered at no cost:

• Milestones in Public Health
• The Faces of Public Health
• Advancing Healthy Populations: The Pfizer Guide to Careers in Public Health

http://www.pfizerpublichealth.com


Part of Newsweek's website, this "Public Health Schools and Programs" page features information on public health application to current concerns, and a showcase archive article "Public Health Community Response to Threat of Influenza Pandemic".
http://www.newsweekshowcase.com/public-health/index-2.php


Part of the College Board's Young Epidemiology Scholars website, this page describes what epidemiology is.
http://www.collegeboard.com/yes/ae/we0.html


Part of CDC's Excite site, this page links to public health news stories.
http://www.cdc.gov/excite/careers/index.htm


This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html


From the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), this 2 page document describes environmental health.
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/pdf/e-health.pdf


This Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge section of the PBS website has links to information related to the PBS television series of the same name.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/


This website of the New York - New Jersey Public Health Training Center has online training and education programs, including "Orientation to Public Health", as well as and links to other public health resources.
http://www.nynj-phtc.org/