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Archived
webcasts
“Breaking the Cycle: Investigating the Intersection of
Educational Inequities and Health Disparities”
15th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health (info)
“Men’s Health Disparities: Implications for Research and Intervention”
14th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health (info)
10th Annual
William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Nancy Krieger, “The Impact of Poverty, Culture, and Environment on Minority Health” - live interactive webcast, Feb 29, 2008. (info)
“Does Racism Make Us Sick?”
13th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health (info)
9th Annual
William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by David Malebranche, “AIDS at 25: Emerging from the Matrix”
(info)
“Examining the Science Behind Race-Specific Medicine” (June 26, 2006) and “Tobacco prevention initiatives at
Historically Black Colleges and Universities” (June 28, 2006).
12th Annual Summer Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health
“Proof
of Causality from
Epidemiologic Observations”,
by Sir Richard Doll (5/14/2002 webcast) (About Sir Richard Doll)
“Social
Determinants of Health: Implications for Intervening on Racial and
Ethnic Health Disparities”, by Sherman A. James (3/1/2002
webcast)
“Confronting
Institutional Racism”, by Camara P. Jones (2/28/2003
webcast)
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Materials on this site
(Other materials can
be found within the EPID 168 historical site.)
Other on-line
textbooks, courses, and resources
Epidemiology:
Statistics:
Biology:
Various:
(Relatively) new postings
- 11/2008
AuthorAID provides researchers in developing countries with a community space for discussion, questions, and advice; best practices in writing and publication, training workshops on scientific writing, networking opportunities, and personal mentoring.
- 11/2008
HINARI Access to Research Initiative is a WHO initiative to enable developing country researchers to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
- 03/2008
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Take a look at their global data visualizations.
- 03/2008
AskSphere (Southeast Public Health Educational Resource for Enhancement) has various public health training resources, including epidemiology.
- 11/2007
History:
To Slay the Devouring Monster Exhibit on the smallpox vaccination experiments and campaign of Benjamin Waterhouse during the early 19th century. Waterhouse’s first attempts employed smallpox virus itself. (See short article in Harvard Magazine.)
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- 10/2007
STROBE Statement
is a new initiative to improve reporting of observational studies. It represents a major
collaboration of epidemiologists, statisticians, and editors. The 22-item STROBE checklist and
a comprehensive explanation and elaboration document are being published in 10/2007
as free access articles on in 10/2007 in Annals of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology,
and PLoS Medicine among others.
- 3/2006
Epidemiology Education Movement
has information about a grass-roots effort to promote the teaching of epidemiology to middle school and high school students.
- 3/2005
History
of epidemiology site maintained by Alfredo Morabia (includes
articles from volumes 46 and 47 of the Journal of Social and
Preventive Medicine and other information
- 2/2005
NetEpi: “Network-enabled
Epidemiology” is a collaborative project to create a suite
of free, open source software tools for epidemiology and public
health practice
- 10/2004
Open-EPI:
Open Source Statistics for Public Health has on-line and downloadable
free statistical calculators for epidemiology, with documentation,
plus a huge number of links to free statistics/epidemiology-related
software.
- 11/2003
Goldberger's
War: Stopping Pellagra in the South. NPR's Mike Pesca speaks
with Alan Kraut, author of Goldberger’s War: The life
and work of a public health crusader. (broadcast 10/2/2003)
- 7/2003
North
Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training Site
has an extensive collection of links to free, on-line training
resources, including audio “tutorials” (narrated
slide presentations) for selected lectures in EPID160/EPID600, the
course that I now teach The Center has a new periodical
FOCUS
on Field Epidemiology [Enfoque
en Epidemiología de Campo] with a hands-on, practical
approach to various topics in field epidemiology. (July 2004 issue:
Epidemic
Curves)
- New
York New Jersey Public Health Training Center has an interactive
orientation to public health
- Population
and health: an introduction to epidemiology, by Ian Rockett
- EpiData
– freeware program for epidemiologic data entry
- Studying
Populations: computer assisted learning package for basic
epidemiological Methods
- MIT's
OpenourseWare Initiative, list
of courses
- Health
statistics - tools of the trade, concepts, formulas, and interpretation
of the range of commonly published vital statistics and related
statistical concepts (from the Pennsylvania State Health Department).
- Public
Health Code of Ethics (9/30/2001)
- EpiGrad
Today - Every epidemiologist needs a place to call her
own - very witty! (9/20/2001)
- Case
study of a major program of epidemiologic investigation: Atherosclerosis
Research in Communities (includes data collection protocols,
manuscript proposal forms, . . .) (9/30/2001)
About epidemiology and public health, including resources for young people
Featured web sites relevant to epidemiology
… and statistics
- 1/2005
Learning
Statistics through Activities
– about a dozen puzzles, demonstrations, and simulations,
designed by Engin A. Sungur, to teach basic statistical concepts.
My favorite is “To switch or not to switch”
- Interactive
Statistics Pages – over 300 web pages that explain and
perform statistical calculations
- Rice
Virtual Lab in Statistics - simulations,
demonstrations, case studies, exercises, source code for Java
applets
- ViSta,
the Visual Statistics System - freeware (Windows, Mac, Unix)
for dynamic, interactive statistical visualizations; site has
lecture notes, applets, access to source code
- VassarStats
- statistical calculators, demonstrations, textbook - featured
in Science
- NCHS research:
Visualizing
health statistics, Pennsylvania State University
Other epidemiology information resources
Miscellanea
- Several key sites for population, demography, reproductive health, and other health information, literature, and data: Population
Reference Bureau, Population
Index, Popline, FastStats
- Math
refresher on ratios and proportions, algebraic expressions,
exponents, and logarithms – some basics from the University
of Minnesota
- Math Forum for help with all kinds of math - don't miss Ask
Dr.Math!
- More resources for math and writing skills
Other sites by this author
Other sites to know
For information:
Victor_Schoenbach@unc.edu,
www.unc.edu/~vschoenb/
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