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As the new Public Health Coordinator for the NN/LM NER, I will be using this column to highlight information resources for public health practice. If you would like to share ideas about public health information resources or announce projects in the region related to public health, please forward announcements to me for placement in this newsletter.

Before coming to the NN/LM NER, I worked as the Project Coordinator for the Evidence-Based Practice for Pubic Health Project at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. One of the wonderful outcomes of this project is a website, http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph, which focuses on disseminating resources for evidence-based public health (EBPH) practice. Work is underway to update and revise this website as a single portal for finding and accessing EBPH resources. Currently the website includes links to public health journals, bibliographic databases, evidence-based guidelines, systematic reviews, pre-formulated literature searches, and best practices.

In addition to my work as the Public Health Coordinator, I also work as the Content Developer for the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce website, http://PHPartners.org. Partners is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health science libraries: the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the American Public Health Association (APHA), the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Medical Library Association (MLA), the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM NER), the Public Health Foundation (PHF), and the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). The Partners' mission is to help the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health. The Partners website brings online public health resources from all these organizations together in one place for easy access.

If you any questions or ideas for public health outreach in the region, I would love to hear from you. I can be reached at 508-856-2085 or email Hathy.Simpson@umassmed.edu.

Hathy Simpson, MPH
Public Health Coordinator