Public Health

Dissertations

Digital Dissertations/Abstracts and Full Text
Indexes two-million dissertations from over one-thousand institutions, with citations from 1861-1980 and abstracts from 1980+. Includes the full text of most CUNY dissertations and post-1997 dissertations from other institutions. Database Guide (PDF)

• To limit your search to CUNY dissertations, include City University of New York in your search statement. See guide to searching for Grad Center dissertations.
• Non-U.S.dissertations can be searched in the Center for Research Libraries' catalog. 

Note: citations, abstracts, recent text

Databases

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Indexing for 3,001 journals in nursing and allied health, with full text for 750 journals and 220 books. See this online tutorial to learn expert search techniques.
Note: nursing & health journals

Cochrane Library
Collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews provide evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, the Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information:  review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials.
Note: healthcare resources

Medline with Full Text
Full text of more than 1,470 medical journals, back to 1965 for some titles, as well as indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals. Two free versions of Medline (PubMed and MedlinePlus) are available anywhere.
Note: text of 1,470 medical journals

Multi-Database Search
This resource allows the simultaneous searching of all the full-text and bibliographic databases to which all of CUNY subscribes and all EBSCO databses, as well as the CUNY+ Online Catalog. It does not include the resources to which the Graduate Center subscribes separately. Database Guide (PDF)

Note: Search all CUNY-wide electronic resources simultaneously

Oxford Journals Online
Includes the text of 262 Oxford University Press journals from 1996 to the present.  Use the database's advanced search function to search by author, article titles, or journal or by year.  Although content prior to 1996 may be searched, the Graduate Center has access only to text from 1996 to the present.

Note: 262 journals from 1996 to present

PsycInfo
Abstracts of articles from nearly 2,000 journals in thirty-five languages since 1872 and abstracts of books and essays in books from 1987 to the present. Datatabe Guide (PDF)

Note: abstracts since 1872

Web of Science
The Graduate Center subscribes to the full run of Web of Science, covering the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. After performing a search, click the Web of Science button for a complete record, which includes a bibliographic citation, abstract, cited references, and times cited.
Note: cited references in all disciplines

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Holdings of thousands of American and international libraries. Make ILL requests with the Find it! button. Searchable in English, French, and Spanish. See an online tutorial to the database. See also the freely accessible version of WorldCat. Database Guide (PDF)

Note: holdings of thousands of libraries; make ILL requests through Find it!

Statistics & Data

Community District Profiles
Profiles of each of NYC's 59 legally defined community districts, with data on population, births, deaths, income, and more.

EpiQuery
A web-based system designed to guide users through basic data analyses on several datasets on varying topics and indicators for different NYC populations.Users can run cross-tabulations and find point estimates with confidence intervals.

Health Data Interactive
Health Data Interactive presents tables with national health statistics for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Tables can be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location to explore different trends and patterns.

Health Statistics and Demographics (SUNY Binghamton)
 Includes links to national and regional data.

Infoshare
Demographic information about New York City drawn from city, state, and federal sources. Also includes some national statistics. Use the raw data to create customized tables. The information in Infoshare is supplemented by many free Web sites, including National Priorities Project Database, which provides a range of statistics relating to labor, poverty, and social programs by state.
Note: New York City demographics

National Center for Disease Control
Nationwide health data.

National Center for Health Statistics (CDC)
Provides access to statistical information compiled by the nation's premier health statistics agency
Note: statistical information compiled by the nation's premier health statistics agency

Vital Statistics of New York State
Vital statistics in table form.
Note: vital statistics in table form.

Vital Statistics: NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene
Statistics on birth, death, illness, etc. in summary and searchable form.
Note: statistics on birth, death, illness, etc. in summary and searchable form

Associations

American Public Health Association
Advocacy organization includes links to reports, etc.

Association of Schools of Public Health
Information on programs, core competencies, jobs, resources on public health topics

Web Sites

Healthy People Information Access Project
Organizes and makes information and evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 objectives easier to find. The National Library of Medicine and the Public Health Foundation staff have worked together to develop pre-formulated search strategies for selected Healthy People 2010 focus areas.

U.S. National Library of Medicine Health Services Research and Public Health Programs
Topical research portal

Grants/Scholarships/Financial Aid

COS Funding Opportunities
Grants, internships, graduate and post-graduate fellowships in all subject areas. Search by keyword; set alerts for relevant opportunites.

Note: grants, fellowships, internships

Foundation Directory Online
Information about 20,000 large and mid-sized U.S. foundations and files for more than half-a-million grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search over 110,000 trustee, officer and donor names.

Note: covers 20,000 foundations

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
Search for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals, with more than 6,100 entries, updated quarterly., including detailed descriptions of approximately 2,000 programs which fund individual grant seekers. Accessible only in library. Users must ask reference librarian to log them in.
Note: financial-support sources

Grants.gov
Source for finding and applying for federal grants