Public Health

Resources covering a range of topics for public health related interests.

What you will find here

This guide includes resources for:

Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) (includes Nutrition)
Health Services Administration and Policy (HIM and HPM)
Epidemiology and Biostatistics (EPBI)
Social Work

The contact information for your department's librarian is available in the boxes labeled Research Help.

Best Public Health Databases

PubMed
PubMed contains articles in biomedical sciences, including public health, medicine, nursing, behavioral sciences, health policy, and health education. This database is free and will be available for you to use regardless of whether you have access to a library.
Embase

EMBASE contains references to journal articles in biomedicine. The references consist of authors, title, journal data, abstract and keywords. EMBASE contains European literature, and coverage in the field of drug research, pharmacology and pharmaceutics. The database can be searched back to 1974.
Public Health Database
ProQuest Public Health offers core literature for the study of public health, including biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, and behavioral sciences.
APA PsycInfo

APA PsycInfo contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
CINAHL
CINAHL includes nursing and allied health journals. It also includes book chapters, dissertations, and some conference proceedings.

Guides for Public Health Courses

Public Health Fundamentals: SBS 5001
by Van Tran Last Updated Aug 20, 2025 82 views this year
Program Planning, Theory, and Practice: SBS 5002
by Van Tran Last Updated Sep 9, 2025 178 views this year
Health Policy and Management Fieldwork I: HPM 9289
by Van Tran Last Updated Sep 9, 2025 114 views this year
Public Health: The Way We Live, Work and Play: HRPR 1001
by Courtney Eger Last Updated Jun 11, 2024 1519 views this year
Health Information Management Human Resource Management: HIM 3297
by Van Tran Last Updated Aug 28, 2025 56 views this year
Program Planning: SBS 3496/3596
by Van Tran Last Updated Aug 28, 2025 123 views this year
Nutrition Program
by Van Tran Last Updated Jul 9, 2024 283 views this year

MPH Fieldwork I: EPBI 9289

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GIS & Mapping
by Felipe Valdez Last Updated Aug 5, 2025 645 views this year
Statistics and Data for Health
by Van Tran Last Updated May 14, 2025 462 views this year
Qualitative Data Analysis and QDA Tools
by Van Tran Last Updated Sep 10, 2025 12523 views this year
Tests and Measurements
by Rick Lezenby Last Updated Jan 6, 2025 88 views this year

Public Health Law Research Guide
by Temple Law Library Last Updated Dec 12, 2023 590 views this year

External guides from other academic libraries

Public Health Law (Georgia State University College of Law)

Research Help

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Subjects: Public Health, Social Work

Open Education Resources Textbooks

Epidemiology
by Charlotte Baker (Truveta, formerly Virginia Tech) – This text is designed for medical degree-seeking clinical students without a prior background in public health. Using sports medicine and injury prevention examples and applications, it aims to provide students with the basics of epidemiology terms and concepts and is intended to guide medical school students as they prepare for the USMLE Step 1 Exam and to transition from student to clinician.
Social Determinants of Health in Nursing Education: Integrating Into Curriculum and Practice
by Dawn M. Bowker & Karla Kerkove (Iowa State University) – This workbook was established with nurse educators and nursing students in mind to provide knowledge, guidance, and support for integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) across the nursing education spectrum. Contents from this workbook are applicable to pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs, RN-to-BSN programs, and graduate education. The book includes a general information section, pedagogical tools and discussion, case studies, and a facilitator guide (for accompanying the case studies).
Clinical Application of Therapeutic Modalities
by Andrea Cripps (Bowling Green State University) — A lab manual for physical therapy courses, showing definitions, different therapy methods, and lab activities.
Simulated Science: Clinical Microbiology Lessons with Operation Outbreak
by Melissa Poua (Andrews University) — This resource includes teaching materials, posters, visual aids, and two worksheets in epidemiology and virology. This resource is intended for healthcare majors in clinical microbiology courses. The laboratory activities work with a free hands-on teaching phone application (Operation Outbreak) that models an outbreak in real-time, allowing the students to explore interventions and mitigation strategies.
MERLOT Search
MERLOT Search is an online search platform for Open Educational Resources (OER), materials that can be used for free, copied, modified, and shared, and free to access contents.

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