Librarian, Education & Research
Sa'ad Laws
Subjects: Alternative Medicine, Anatomy, Anesthesiology, Biochemistry, Evidence-Based Medicine, Internal and Family Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Mental and Behavioral Health, Neurology and Neuroscience, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Physiology, Primary Care, Sports Medicine, Surgery, Test and Board Prep
Public Health Information Resources
- CDC Data & StatisticsCDC data repository. Data is searchable by topic.
- Africa-wide information This link opens in a new windowAfrica-Wide Information, produced by NISC South Africa, combines bibliographic databases from around the world to form a multidisciplinary aggregation offering unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. This includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations. With over 3.5 million citations and abstracts dating back to the 16th century, this resource is essential for those with an interest in African research, and information on and about Africa.
- GIDEON This link opens in a new windowThe GIDEON database is an interactive decision support system for diagnosis and reference in the fields of tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology and antimicrobial chemotherapy.
- Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health ProjectFocuses specifically on public health best evidence resources with an aim toward examining evidence-based medicine models and assessing their effectiveness to public health. Links are provided to the top 25 public health journals and to evidence-based resources in public health practice.
- PubMed: Population Health Search StrategyPopulation Health Special Query is a PubMed search of relevant MeSH headings and other text words combined by NLM staff to retrieve citations about health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.