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Medicine and Health: Epidemiology
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Government Agencies and International Organizations
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Epicentre
- Institut de Veille Sanitaire (National Institute of Public Health)
- L'Institut Pasteur
- INSERM, the French Institute of Health & Medical Research
- Portugal
- Singapore
- Switzerland
- UK
- USA
- Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- Indian Health Service (IHS)
- Office of Public Health and Science
- Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- Office of Global Health Affairs
- Office of Minority Health
- Office of National AIDS Policy
- Office of Population Affairs (OPA)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Chronic Disease Prevention
- Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
- CDC Wonder Information Site
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- Food and Drug Administration
- National Institutes of Health
- OD - Office of the Director
- NCI - National Cancer Institute
- NEI - National Eye Institute
- NHLBI - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- NHGRI - National Human Genome Research Institute
- NIA - National Institute on Aging
- NIAAA - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- NIAID - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- NIAMS - National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
- NIBIB - National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- NICHD - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- NIDCD - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- NIDCR - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
- NIDDK - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- NIDA - National Institute on Drug Abuse
- NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- NIGMS - National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health
- NINDS - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- NINR - National Institute of Nursing Research
- NLM - National Library of Medicine
- CSR - Center for Scientific Review (formerly Division of Research Grants)
- FIC - John E. Fogarty International Center
- NCCAM - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- NCMHD - National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- NCRR - National Center for Research Resources
- CC - Clinical Center
- Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- United States Census Bureau
- Environmental Protection Agency
- DOE Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) (Lawrence Berkeley Labs)
- National Academy of Sciences
- Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP)
- Naval Health Research Center, Behavioral Science and Epidemiology
- California Department of Health Services
- Alaska Health & Social Serivces, Section of Epidemiology
- Florida Bureau of Epidemiology
- Maryland Epidemiology and Disease Control Program
- New York State Department of Health
- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Epidemiology Section
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
- South Carolina State Department of Health and Environmental Control
University Sites
- Australia
- Australia National University, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
- University of Adelaide, Discipline of Public Health
- Curtin University of Technology, School of Public Health
- Monash University, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine
- Queensland University of Technology, School of Public Health
- University of Melbourne, Australian International Health Institute (AIHI)
- University of New South Wales, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
- University of Sydney, School of Public Health
- University of Western Australia, School of Population Health
- Canada
- University of Alberta, Department of Public Health Sciences
- University of British Columbia, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology
- McGill University, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- McGill University, Department of Occupational Health
- McMaster University, Health Information Research Unit
- Ryerson University, School of Occupational and Public Health
- University of Ottawa, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine
- University of Saskatchewan, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
- University of Toronto, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
- University of Toronto, Public Health Sciences
- University of Western Ontario, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Germany
- University of Duisburg Essen, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (IMIBE)
- University of Leipzig, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE)
- Hannover Medical School, Public Health Studies
- Technical University Berlin, Institute of Public Health
- University of Ulm, School of Public Health
- Japan
- Netherlands
- University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Center for Health and Health Care Research (AmCOGG)
- Erasmus University Medical Center, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- University of Limburg at Maastricht, Department of Epidemiology
- Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences
- Netherlands School of Public & Occupational Health
- University of Nijmegen, Department of Medical Informatics
- Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
- UK
- University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine
- Cambridge University, Institute of Public Health
- Univeristy of Edinburgh, School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health
- The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
- University of Glasgow, Epidemiology of Primary Care
- Imperial College School of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health
- Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
- University of London, Department of Public Health Sciences
- University of London, Genetics Epidemiology Research Group
- University of Manchester, Division of Epidemiology and Health Sciences
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Population and Health Sciences
- University of Nottingham, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health
- University of Oxford, Division of Public Health & Primary Health Care
- University of Warwick, Ecology & Epidemiology Group
- USA
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Epidemiology
- University of Alaska Anchorage, Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies
- University of Arizona, College of Public Health
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Public Health
- Boston University, School of Public Health
- Brown University, Department of Community Health
- University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Irvine, Epidemiology Division
- University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology
- University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health
- University of California, San Francisco
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- University of Chicago, Department of Health Studies
- University of Cincinnati, Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
- Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
- University of Connecticut, Master of Public Health Program
- Cornell University, Department of Public Health
- Drexel University, School of Public Health
- Duke University, Department of Community and Family Medicine
- Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
- Florida International University, Robert Stempel School of Public Health
- George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services
- Harvard School of Public Health
- University of Hawaii, Manoa, Department of Public Health Sciences & Epidemiology
- University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health
- University of Iowa, College of Public Health
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- University of Kentucky, College of Public Health
- University of Louisville, School of Public Health and Information Sciences
- Loma Linda University, School of Public Health
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health
- Loyola University, Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology
- University of Maryland, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
- University of Miami, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
- University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Michigan State University, Institute of International Health
- University of Minnesota, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
- University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Department of Epidemiology
- New York Medical College, School of Public Health
- New York University, Department of Environmental Medicine
- State University of New York at Albany, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
- University of North Carolina, Department of Epidemiology
- University of North Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health
- Ohio State University, Division of Epidemiology
- University of Oklahoma, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology
- University of Pennsylvania, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Pennsylvania State University, Department of Health Evaluation Services
- University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health
- University of Puerto Rico, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- University of Rochester Medical Center, Community and Preventive Medicine
- Saint Louis University, Division of Epidemiology
- San Diego State University, Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- University of South Carolina, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology
- University of South Florida, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine
- Stanford University, Program in Epidemiology
- Stanford Prevention Research Center
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Epidemiology Program
- Texas A&M University, School of Rural Public Health
- University of Texas, School of Public Health at Houston
- Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- Uniformed Services University, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
- University of Virginia, Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
- Wake Forest University, Department of Epidemiology
- University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Health Policy Institute
- University of Wisconsin, Department of Population Health Sciences
- Wright State University, Master of Public Health Program
- Yale School of Public Health
Professional Societies and Organizations
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Epidemiology
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM)
- American College of Epidemiology (ACE)
- American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)
- American Diabetes Association Council on Epidemiology & Statistics
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- American Statistical Association (ASA), Statistics in Epidemiology Section
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology (APIC)
- Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
- Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) (formerly Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, ATPM)
- California Public Health Association - North
- Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
- Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)
- Federation of American Scientists, ProMED Initiative
- International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)
- International Epidemiological Association (IEA)
- International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)
- International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE)
- National Academy of Sciences
- Society for Clinical Trials (SCT)
- Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER)
- Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
- Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER)
- Southern California Public Health Association
Cancer
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- American Cancer Society
- American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
- American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO)
- Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC)
- Benefits and Risks of Mammograms
- BreastCancer.Net
- The British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
- California Cancer Registry
- Canadian Cancer Etiology Research Network (CCERN)
- Cancer Control PLANET
- Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
- CancerIndex
- CDC Cancer Prevention and Control
- Central Brain Tumor Registry US
- Comprehensive Cancer Centres Rotterdam
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- German Cancer Research Center
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (WHO)
- International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (WHO)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG)
- Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)
- National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA)
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
- North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
- Northern California Cancer Center (NCCC)
- OncoLink (Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania)
- Stanford Prevention Research Center, Cancer Prevention
- UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
- WWW Cancer Resource Page
- Zero Breast Cancer (formerly Marin Breast Cancer Watch)
Cardiovascular
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- American College of Cardiology
- American Heart Association
- Cardiovascular Diseases Resource Page (Karolinska Institute)
- Cardiovascular Research Center (Massachusetts General Hospital)
- Genesis: Gender and Sex Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease (McGill University)
- Heart Disease Prevention Program (University of California, Irvine)
- Maritime Heart Center (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)
- MedWeb Cardiology Resource Page (Emory University)
- Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center (University of Virginia)
- Stanford Prevention Research Center, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Diabetes
- American Diabetes Association Council on Epidemiology & Statistics
- CDC Diabetes Public Health Resource
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDKD)
- Diabetes in America publication
Infectious Diseases & AIDS
- AIDS Research Institute (ARI) (University of California, San Francisco)
- Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) (University of California, San Francisco)
- European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS (WHO and UNAIDS Collaborating Centre)
- Global Tuberculosis Institute (New Jersey Medical School)
- HIV InSite (University of California, San Francisco)
- International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
- Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
- Malaria Foundation International - Epidemiology
- National Center for Infectious Diseases (CDC)
- National Foundation for Infectious Disease
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Noso Web Hospital Epidemiology Branch, Public Health Department, University Hospital of Lille, France
- Project Inform
- Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research
- TB/HIV Research Laboratory (Brown University)
- WHO Global Atlas of Infectious Diseases
Evidence-Based Healthcare
- Centre for Health Evidence
- Cochrane Collaboration
- Cochrane Library (through UCSF Library)
- Specialty-Specific EBM Sites
- IntensiveCare.com Supporting Evidence-Based Practice in Critical Care
- Evidence-Based Pediatrics (University of Michigan)
Genetic & Molecular
- Biology Links, Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
- CDC Genomics and Disease Prevention
- Center of Bioinformatics and Molecular Biostatistics (CBMB) (University of California, San Francisco)
- Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine (CMGM) Bioinformatics Resource (Stanford University)
- Computational Molecular Biology at NIH
- Fugu Informatics Network (Queen Mary University of London)
- GDB Human Genome Database
- GeneSNPs
- Infection, Genetics and Evolution - Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases
- Karolinska Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- Molecules To Go (NIH)
- Quantitative Genetics Resources (University of Arizona)
- SeqNet
Occupational
- Center for Social Epidemiology Job Stress Network
- Health, Environment & Work
- Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- NCI Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology Branch
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) - Occupational Epidemiology
- Quebec Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute (IRSST)
Environmental
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- EPA Exposure Assessment Models
- Hanford Health Information Network Archives; closed 05/2000
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)
- International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA)
- Jack Birch Unit for Molecular Carcinogenesis (The University of York, UK)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- Risk-Related Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
- University of Chicago Hospitals, Environmental Medicine
Nutritional
Reproductive Health & Population Studies
- Center for Communication Programs (Johns Hopkins University)
- Demography & Population Studies - WWW Virtual Library
- Office of Population Research at Princeton University
- Population Health Research Unit, Dalhousie University
Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling
- Web Resources in Statistics (University of California, San Francisco)
- Dynamic Epidemiology/Biology WWW Site (University of Montreal)
- Biology Software Lab: Epidemiology Software (University of Oregon)
- American Statistical Association (ASA), Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Data Sources
- CDC
- Data & Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Resources for Creating Public Health Maps
- Wonder Information Site
- Combined Health Information Database (CHID) (NIH)
- DOE Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) (Lawrence Berkeley Labs)
- EPA Tools & Data
- EpiData - Data Entry Software (freeware)
- Epidemiology Data Center (University of Pittsburgh)
- Epidemiology Data Service Center (EDSC) (Medical College of Wisconsin)
- FedStats
- HazDat Database ATSDR's Hazardous Substance Release and Health Effects Database
- Large Health Data Sets - Links (EHDP)
- National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) (American College of Surgeons)
- National Cancer Registrars Associaton
- NIEHS Databases
- National Perinatal Statistics (March of Dimes)
- OpenEpi Open Source Epidemiologic Statistics for Public Health
- Population Reference Bureau
- State Public Health
- StatLib Data Archive (Carnegie Mellon University)
- WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
Publications
- Journal Lists
- Epidemiology and Public Health Journals (MedNets)
- Johns Hopkins List of Epidemiology Journals
- Public Health and Epidemiology Journals (Medic8 - UK)
- Journal Links
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- American Journal of Public Health
- Annals of Epidemiology
- Annual Review of Public Health
- British Medical Journal
- Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
- Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Contemporary Clinical Trials (formerly Controlled Clinical Trials)
- Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)
- Environmental Health Perspectives (NIEHS)
- Epidemiology
- European Journal of Epidemiology
- FOCUS on Field Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
- Infection, Genetics and Evolution - Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Journal of Community Health
- Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)
- Nature
- Neuroepidemiology
- Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
- Pan American Journal of Public Health
- Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
- Public Health & the Environment / Hazardous Substances & Public Health (ATSDR)
- Science Magazine
- WHO Bulletin
- WHO Weekly Epidemiologic Record (WER)
- Newsletters
- American College of Epidemiology Newsletter
- Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics Newsletter
- Chronic Disease Notes & Reports (CDC)
- Double Helix (National Foundation for Infectious Diseases)
- EpiMonitor
- International Epidemiological Association (IEA) Reports
- Nation's Health (American Public Health Association)
- Research Activities (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research)
- Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) Newsletter
- Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Newsletter
- Textbooks
Meetings/Training
- Meetings
- Training
- CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service
- CDC Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology (EXCITE)
- Epicentre Training Courses
- European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (Epiet)
- International Agency for Research on Cancer Training Programme
- Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions NETwork (TEPHINET)
- Virtual Campus of Public Health (PAHO/WHO)
- University of Bristol Short Course Programme
- University of California, San Francisco, Training in Clinical Research
- University of California, San Francisco, Continuing Medical Education
- Johns Hopkins SPH OpenCourseWare
- North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training
- University of North Carolina SPH Online Certificate in Field Epidemiology
- Ohio State University, Certificate in Epidemiology Program
- Summer Programs
- BioEpi Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
- University of California, San Francisco, Summer Clinical Research Workshop
- Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Summer Programme
- Harvard Summer Session for Public Health Studies
- Johns Hopkins Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Short Study Programme
- McGill University Summer Session in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- University of Michigan SPH Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology
- Ohio State University College of Public Health Summer Program in Applied Biostatistical and Epidemiological Methods
- Statens Serum Institut (Denmark) Nordic Summer School in Methods of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Computing Resources
- Epicentre
- EpiData - Data Entry Software (freeware)
- EpiTools
- CDC Epi Info Software
- Epi Info Manual
- Epi Info Technical Support
- Email support address (epiinfo@cdc.gov)
- Epi Info WebBoard Discussion Group
- Java Epidemiology (University of Oregon)
- StatiBot Wizard for Statistical Tests
- Statlib Archive (Carnegie Mellon University)
- National Micropopulation Simulation Resource (University of Minnesota)
- GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network
News & Discussion Groups, Frequently Asked Questions
- Discussion groups (Listserv)
- EPIDEMIO-L Epidemiology Discussion Group (University of Montreal)
- EPIWORLD Epidemiology Discussion Group (University of South Carolina)
- Epi Info WebBoard Discussion Group (CDC)
- PHNUTR-L -- Public Health Nutrition Discussion and Information Group (University of Washington)
- News Groups (Usenet)
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Medicine
- HIV and AIDS (CDC)
Related Sites
- Online Dictionary of Epidemiology (University of Cambridge)
- Episource
- Topix.Net Epidemiology News
- Epizootiology
- MediLexicon Abbreviations
- SPHCM Resource Gateway (University of Washington)
- Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health (University of Pittsburgh)
- Public Health InfoLinks (Emory University)
- Best of the Web: Epidemiology
- Yahoo Medicine Listing
- Health on the Net Foundation
- World Wide Web Virtual Library