Public Health

Alicia Livinski joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library in 2007. Alicia supports the Administration for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Immediate Office of the Secretary, and the Office of Global Affairs (OGA) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Cindy began her library career at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions with a focus on Evidenced Based Medicine. While at the Welch Medical Library she progressed in roles, leaving Hopkins as the Associate Director of Education Services. Cindy went on to work at several federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Search for Evidence Based Public Health Information in These Databases

• Pubmed - premier healthcare and public health database from the National Library of Medicine
• Cochrane Library - high quality evidence and systematic reviews for public health and health care decision making

Economic Evaluation

Cost-Effectivness Analysis Registry

• Provides access to over 3000 cost-effectiveness analysis studies covering a wide array of disease and intervention. 

New York Academy Grey Literature Report

• The Grey Literature Report is a bimonthly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics.

Gisela Butera  joined the NIH Library in December 2020. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Arts in Education from The George Washington University. 

Preformulated Literature Searches

PubMed/MEDLINE search on global vaccine injury compensation programs. No date or language limits applied.

This online guide contains information on finding, using, and analyzing health and population data. The guide was developed as an online companion for a series of classes that focus on finding, wrnagling, and analyzing health data. If you are NIH or HHS staff, please check out the NIH Library training schedule for upcoming classes.

Relevant sources for health care policy and law that affect health care and public health

HRSA funded grantee publications retrieved from PubMed/MEDLINE are available via the link below. Note that if the grantees did not acknowledge HRSA or include the grant number in the Acknowledgements field of the article, then PubMed does add the grant number information to the Grant Support field.

HRSA funded grantee publications

General Public Health Journals

• American Journal of Public Health
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Health Affairs
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
• Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

A resource guide of key journals, news sources, court proceedings, documents and preformulated literature searches on vaccines and adverse effects for HRSA/HSB/DICP staff. Please contact NIH Librarian, Alicia Livinski, with questions or requests for assistance.

PubMed/MEDLINE database

A preformulated search in PubMed/MEDLINE for journal articles that mention the National Survey of Children's Health or the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. No language or publication limits were applied. Click on the link below to see the most recent articles indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE at the top of the results listing. Please contact Alicia Livinski with questions.

PubMed Searches on HRSA Bureaus & Offices

Please find below links to searches saved in PubMed/MEDLINE focused on the various HRSA Bureaus and Offices published from 2000 to the present. If you have any questions about these searches, please contact Alicia Livinski, NIH Librarian for HRSA/ORE.

The following are a list of key public health journals that link to their table of contents. The journals for which we do not have a subscription are noted.

Seminal Court Decisions: These will encompass critical published decisions, particularly by the Court of Federal Claims and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which have formed the basis for the current legal standards for the program.

Special Master Decisions: These will encompass published decisions by individual special masters. We will provide those decisions.

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The purpose of this class is to introduce the fundamentals of conducting a meta-analysis. The focus will be on randomized clinical trials; however, the presenter will also briefly discuss the application of meta-analyses in laboratory and observational (epidemiological) studies. 

Nancy Terry joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library in 1995. At the NIH, Nancy supports the Program on Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology (PRAE) in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She also supports the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation (ASPE), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services.