• MEDLINE to identify the peer reviewed journal literature.  Consider adding subheading epidemiology and/or mortality to your subject search.  Also combining your subject using the Boolean "AND" operator with the medical subject heading epidemiologic study characteristics is useful for identifying different kinds of epidemiologic studies.
• Virus Databases on-line from Columbia University

Bioterrorism

• CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response
• Medlineplus Biodefense and Bioterrorism; links to fulltext information
• Medlineplus Biological and Chemical Weapons; links to fulltext information
• National Guideline Clearinghouse Guidelines on Bioterrorism from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Public Health Training Network from CDC educational broadcasts

Diseases

• General
• CDC Health Topics A - Z
• CDC Prevention Guidelines
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• National Guideline Clearinghouse - public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines sponsored by Agency for Healthcare Policy Research, American Medical Association, and American Association of Health Care Plans.
• Cancer
• American Cancer Society
• Cancernet, National Cancer Institute
• Hawaii Tumor Registry
• Oncolink  maintained by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.
• Chronic Disease
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDKD)
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
• Communicable Diseases
• National Center for Infectious Diseases
• World Health Organization Disease Links--infectious, vaccine preventable
  • Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
• Disability
• disAbility.gov See section on health.
• Disability Statistics Center (full-text reports from Univ. of California at SF)
• National Organization on Disability
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
• HIV AIDS
• AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information System)
• amfAR Treatment Directory
• HIV/AIDS Knowledge Base (full-text from Univ. of California at SF)
• HIV InSite Gateway from University of California at San Francisco
• HIV/AIDS Treatment  Information Service
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, CDC
• Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative, Health and Human Services
• PAHO AIDS and STI (Pan American Health Organization)
• Statistics on AIDS  Links from HIV InSite Gateway
  • Hawaii Statistics from State Department of Health
• WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HSI)

• Hawaii State Department of Health
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• National Center for HIV, STD AND TB Prevention
• National Center for Infectious Disease
• Public Health Surveillance  Epidemiology Program Office, CDC
• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
• International Epidemiological Association
• World Health Organization
  • WHO SEARO South East Asia Regional Office)
  • WHO Western Pacific Region

• Case Definitions for Infectious Conditions Under Public Health Surveillance  from MMWR 5/2/97 
• Communicable Diseases Hawaii Administrative Rules, Dept. of Health, Title 11, Chapter 156
• Eurosurveillance
• Public Health Surveillance and Communicable Diseases Control, Secretariat of the Pacific Community
• Public Health Systems and Emerging Infections:, Assessing the Capabilities of the Public and Private Sectors, Report from the Institute of Medicine, 2000

• GlobalHealth.gov from the Dept. of Health and Human Services
• Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health, University of Pittsburgh.
• Software
• EpiInfo Software Program free download site from CDC
• GIS and Public Health, CDC
• Public Health Software, Websites, & Internet resources in the Public Domain--selected by Delta Omega Honorary Society, Johns Hopkins
• SAS Institute Inc.
• SPSS, Inc.
• Textbooks Online
• All the Virology on the WEB from Tulane University
• Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1998-2002, edited by Jonathan Swinton
• Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, 5th ed., 2003 , type book title in search box
• HyperStats Online  online statistics textbook, provided by David M. Lane, Rice University, introductory level.
• Statistics at Square One by T D V Swinscow,  9th ed., 1997, type book title in search box
• Worldwide WEB Epidemiology Library -- Comprehensive epidemiology links maintained by University of California at San Francisco. Includes links to important epidemiology sites, meeting and employment information, publications and information on discussion groups.

• Communicable Disease Report, Hawaii State Department of Health
• Canada Communicable Disease Report
• Communicable Disease Report Weekly from United Kingdom
• Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC
• Eurosurveillance Weekly and Monthly
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report , CDC
• MMWR (Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report), CDC
• MMWR CDC Surveillance Summaries
• MMWR Recommendations and Reports
• US DOD Global Emerging Infections System
• WHO Weekly Epidemiologic Record, World Health Organization

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