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A list of Web sites useful in the study and teaching of epidemiology and other public health topics.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sites and Publications

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/

Global Communications Center
http://www.cdc.gov/gcc/

*CDC Foundation
http://www.cdcfoundation.org/

Healthy People 2010
http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/default.htm

Office of Communication: Media Relations
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

Emerging Infectious Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Outbreak Investigations—A Perspective
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol4no1/reingold.htm

Viral Hepatitis: What Every Teenager Needs to Know
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis
/resource/training/hs_slideset.htm

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Medical Journals and Epidemiology Publications

*Communicable Disease Report Weekly
United Kingdom
http://www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/

*Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
http://jama.ama-assn.org/

* The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com

* New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.nejm.org

*Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com

* Weekly Epidemiologic Record
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/wer

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Science and Health

* Access Excellence
National Health Museum
http://www.accessexcellence.org/index.html

*Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs
http://www.aehap.org

* Bad Bug Book
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~MOW/intro.html

*Detectives in the Classroom
Montclair State University
http://www.montclair.edu/detectives/

* Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease
American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/index.html

* Health Insight: Taking Charge of Health Information
Harvard University
http://www.health-insight.harvard.edu/

Health Science Curriculum Online
National Institutes of Health
http://science-education.nih.gov/homepage.nsf

* Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org

* MicrobeWorld
American Society for Microbiology
http://www.microbeworld.org/

* A Short Introduction to Epidemiology
Massey University Wellington Campus - Wellington, New Zealand
http://publichealth.massey.ac.nz/publications/introepi.pdf [pdf 1.4Mb]

* Stalking the Mysterious Microbe
American Society of Microbiologists
http://www.microbe.org/index.html

* Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

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Other Education Resources

Body and Mind
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.bam.gov/

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/free/
Search on "epidemiology"

FEMA for Kids
Federal Emergency Management Agency
http://www.fema.gov/kids/

NASA: Mars Exploration Program
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

* Online Tutorials
Alan Cann, Tulane University
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/Tutorials/Tutorials.html

* PBS TeacherSource
Public Broadcasting Service
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Search on "epidemiology"

* Young Epidemiology Scholars
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the College Board
http://www.collegeboard.com/yes

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Historical Background

* Delta Omega Classics
Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
http://www.deltaomega.org/classics.htm

* John Snow: A legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html

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Statistics

* Gallery of Data Visualization
Michael Friendly, York University
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/

* Mathematical Sciences and their Applications Throughout the Curriculum
http://www.siam.org/meetings/an98/ms68.htm

* Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
David Lane, Rice University
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html

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