Resources for Public Health Presentations

RML and regional handouts, slides, websites, and curriculum guides

Presentations:

• Public Health Information on the Web Slides, notes, and exercises for a three hour, hands-on class (2009)

• Gather Around The Pump Handle: Public Health Resources & Outreach Ideas - Recording of a one-hour RML Rendezvous webcast. PowerPoint slides are available here (2010)

• Public Health: Population-Based Approaches to Improving Health A one-hour presentation on information needs, resources, and uses of the public health workforce, Neil Rambo (2005)

• Planning and Implementing a Digital Library for Public Health Seattle & King County A 30 minute overview of project to determine needs and design library resources, Ann Madhavan (2005)

Print Handouts:

• Public Health Resources - professionally printed cards availble to PNR network members on request.

• "Rainbow Packet" of bullet lists of major features of various sites (updated 2010)
  • NLM
  • PHPartners
  • PubMed
  • MedlinePlus

Web Resources :

• PHPartners Tutorial
  Public Health Information and Data Tutorial. Web-based, self-instructional version of print manual.

• Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
  Web portal for public health practitioners, "The mission of the Northwest Center is to improve the quality and effectiveness of public health practice by linking public health academic and practice communities." See especially links to public health informatics

• A.H.E.L.P.
  Alaska Health Education Library Project site links to projects, materials, and resources for Alaska Public Health workforce.

• H.E.R.E. in Washington
  Health Education Resource Exchange developed by Washington State Department of Health.

• MyPublicHealth (Washington) and MyPublicHealth (Montana)
  A project of the Center for Public Health Informatics at the University of Washington. MyPublicHealth is "a decision support tool for agencies to customize the collection, description, management and retrieval of critical public health information".

• Core Competencies Lists
  Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice list of core competencies for Public Health Professionals, 2009

• Public Health Informatics Competencies
  Developed by a group of librarians, public health informaticians and educators; this set of skills covers the use of information per se, use of information technology, and management of information technology projects, 2009