Public Health Resource List
(For further exploration on your own)
Public Health Multi-media and movies
• A Civil Action
• An Inconvenient Truth
• And the Band Played On
• Erin Brockovich
• Fast Food Nation
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• The Insider
• Outbreak
• Philadelphia
• Planet Earth (National Geographic)
• Rx for Survival (PBS)
• Sicko
• Silkwood
• Super Size Me
• Who Killed the Electric Car?

    
Public Health Reading List
Barry, J. M. (2004). The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Viking.
Brandt, A (2007). The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. Basic Books.
Bullard, R. (2000). Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality.Westview Press.
Carson, Rachel (1962). Silent Spring.
de Villiers, M. (2001). Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource. Mariner Books.
Diamond, Jared ( 2005). Guns, Germs, And Steel. W.W. Norton.
Civilians Under Fire: Humanitarian Practices in the Congo Republic 1998-2000. Doctors without Borders.
Garrett, L. (1994). The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Farmer, P. (2003). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Garrett, L. (2000). Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. New York: Hyperion.
Kidder, T. (2003). Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House.
Lee, R. A. (2007). From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers.
Mari, C. (2007). Global Epidemics. New York: H.W. Wilson Co.
Nestle, M. (2002). Food Politics: How the food industry influences nutrition and health. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Oshinsky, D. (2006), Polio: An American Story.Oxford University Press
Ostfeld, R. S., Keesing, F., & Eviner, V. T. (Eds.). (2008). Infectious Disease Ecology: the Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. Princeton: Princeton U Pr.
Pierce, J. R., & Writer, J. (2005). Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley.
Preston, R. (2002). The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story. New York: Random House.
Shilts, R. (1987). And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Schlosser, E. (2001). Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. TX.
Sinclair, Upton ( 1906). The Jungle.
Tucker, J. B. (2006). War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to al-Qaeda. New York: Pantheon.
Salisbury, G. & L. (2003). The Cruelest Miles. New York: W.W. Norton Company, Inc.

Public Health Websites
What is public health -General overview of the different areas of public health, resources and links, careers in public health  http://www.whatispublichealth.org/index.html

This is Public Health – Recent campaign by young public health professionals and students aimed at  responding to the question “what is public health?” through videos and sticker campaign.
http://www.thisispublichealth.org/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-National and global efforts http://www.cdc.gov/

American Public Health Association (APHA)-National membership organization focused on education, training and advocacy http://www.apha.org/

Alaska Dept Health - Bulletin list-Local state and community level information to educate and report incidences http://www.hss.state.ak.us/dph/ and http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/bltnidx.jsp

World Health Organization (WHO) –global level, major prevention and infectious disease fighting programs http://www.who.int/en/


Source: What is Public Health, 2009, http://www.whatispublichealth.org/resources/reading.html