Health Sciences Program: Websites

Health information from the National Library of Medicine

Often called “the voice of CDC,” the MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.

Access to publications from this organization can be read for free online.

One Health is focused on health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. In addition, this site provides information on One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization.

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The Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health (PORH) is one of the 50 state offices of rural health. PORH is a partnership between the United States Federal Government, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania State University. PORH is charged with being a source of coordination, technical assistance, and networking; partnership development; and assisting in the recruitment and retention of health care providers.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of healthcare for all Americans. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the healthcare system and help consumers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions.

Covers all aspects of communicable diseases, public health, safety, environmental health and statistics.

Gateway to consumer health sites and online publications (brochures, medical terminology, newsletters).

Mayo Clinic staff provide general health information from their publications.

A free database containing full text articles of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

Often called “the voice of CDC,” the MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.