Upcoming broadcast on health disparities

“Translational Research: The Road from Efficacy to Equity” 33rd Annual Minority Health Conference, with an interactive webcast of the 14th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Ana Diez-Roux. Feb. 25, 2011 (info)

Archived webcasts on health disparities

“Health Equity: Progress and Pitfalls” 17th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health, June 7, 2011 (info)

“The Promise of Health Equity: Advancing the Discussion to Eliminate Disparities in the 21st Century” 32nd Annual Minority Health Conference, with an interactive webcast of the 13th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Bonnie Duran. Feb. 25, 2011 (info)

“What Will Health Care Reform Mean for Minority Health Disparities?” 16th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health (info)

“Breaking the Cycle: Investigating the Intersection of Educational Inequities and Health Disparities” 15th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health (info)

12th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Robert E. Fullilove, “Building Community in the Age of Information: Fighting Health Inequality in the Modern World” Feb 26, 2010. (info)

10th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture by Nancy Krieger, “The Impact of Poverty, Culture, and Environment on Minority Health” Feb 29, 2008. (info)

“Does Racism Make Us Sick?” 13th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health (info)

“Confronting Institutional Racism”, by Camara P. Jones (2/28/2003 webcast)

Other on-line textbooks, courses, and resources

• 7/09 EPI 418 Rapid Epidemiological Surveys in Developing Countries is a course created by Professor Emeritus Ralph R. Frerichs at UCLA that covers the need for rapid surveys, sampling theories, rapid two-stage cluster surveys, fieldwork, data analysis, and reporting.
• 8/2010 OpenEpi: 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. (The site was updated in 2009.)
• 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.) .
• 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
• 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

• Association of Schools of Public Health
• Detectives in the Classroom
• CDC's EXCITE - EXcellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology
• Outbreak at WatersEdge - a Public Health Discovery Game developed by the Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health (MCLPH) at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
• Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) competition
• More sites (see also Teach Epidemiology)

Featured web sites relevant to epidemiology

• University of California at San Francisco Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• Global Health Network at the University of Pittsburgh (some material available in Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Chinese, Turkish & Taiwanese)
• www.epimonitor.net - the Epidemiology Monitor
• Epidemiology on line - An on-line source for epidemiologic-related educational materials
• Cultural Ecology of Disease, Agriculture, and Urbanization - broad influences on epidemiology of disease, including two book chapters
• Disease Detectives: American Anthrax Outbreak of 2001, by Ralph Frerichs
• UCLA John Snow website - featured in the Epidemiology Monitor (July 2000) and Science Magazine (21 Dec 2001)
• John Snow Broad Street Pump Outbreak Case Study - featured in the Epidemiology Monitor (July 2000)

… 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