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HEALTH by Paul R.Epstein, MD, MPH |
1.Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School. This is the Home page for a new center dedicated to research, education and policy work concerning health and global change. Two editions of the Center NEWSLETTER are on line, with extensive bibliographies.
2. Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions of Global Change. Tune in to an online, interactive research project focusing on health issues related to marine ecological disturbances. This project involves remote sensing and a Geographic Information System.
3. View Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences class work and group projects concerning A) cholera and El Niñno in Bangladesh, B) dengue fever and El Niñno in Latin america and C) high elevation changes in vector-borne diseases, upward plant migration and mountain glacier retreat.
4. Centers for Disease Control has two sites--Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Emerging Infectious Diseases
5. Promed Archive is an archive of a daily list-serv with reports concerning emerging infectious diseases from over 150 countries. Participant comments are invited on the list-serv.
Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH, is the Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.