This site is always under construction! Any feedback is greatly appreciated. The purpose of this site is to the share methods, tools, and tips relevant to the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases, public health emergency preparedness, and epidemiologic methods and computing.
Many thanks,
Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Medical Epidemiologist
UC Berkeley School of Public Health &
San Francisco Department of Public Health
aragon@berkeley.edu | tomas.aragon@sfdph.org
Exciting Training Opportunities!CIDER Summit 2009: Advances in the Control and Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious DiseasesAugust 3-4, 2009, Sheraton Hotel, South San Francisco. To learn more ...Field Epidemiology Intensive TrainingIntroduction to R
Useful stuff (maybe)Curriculum vitae Available for download (PDF). Essential Field Epidemiology
Essential Field Epidemiology was created to help public health
officers, medical epidemiologists, epidemiologists, public health
investigators, public health nurses, and graduate students learn how to
conduct an outbreak investigation in 7 steps (or less). To get an
overview, download our Quick Reference Guide. To learn more ... Epidemiology Tools (epitools) R Package Epidemiology Tools (epitools) is an R package for epidemiologic computing and graphics. To learn more ... Applied Epidemiology Using R
The Applied Epidemiology Using R was created to help public health and
medical scientists, data analysts, and graduate students learn how to
use R for epidemiologic computing and graphics. To learn more ... LaTeX for Public Health & Medicine Practical Latex for Public Health and Medicine
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Open Access publishingTo protect and promote individual and community health we all need access to relevant and timely biomedical and public health research. The communities that stand to benefit most from this information (low-income communities, health departments, developing countries), often lack the financial resources to purchase access to this wealth of published research studies. However, the vast majority of this research is funded by public dollars, yet are controlled by for-profit companies that restrict or limit access to only those who can afford to pay. Many of us who have worked in local health departments know the frustration of conducting an investigation or responding to a public health threat and then not having electronic access to relevant articles published in for-profit journals. Our limited budgets can only support a small number of biomedical and public health journals. Fortunately, we can change this by supporting Open Access publishing and publishers. Here's how: - Read and support open access journals.
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To see an international list of Open Access journals visit the Directory of Open Access Journals at http://www.doaj.org/ . This list is maintained by the Lund University Libraries. As a public health and scientific community, we and our communities benefit immensely from this enterprise. This is a win-win for everyone! Try Open Source softwareOpen Source software (OSS) is created and maintained by communities of volunteer users/developers that collaborate via the Internet and the World Wide Web. Selected programs have emerged to be powerful, reliable, high quality, and -- yes -- freely available. These include OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, R, GNU Emacs, Linux OS and many more. Using OSS, we are free to collaborate and share content and solutions worldwide. If you are new to OSS, start by using OpenOffice.org -- an office applications suite similar to Microsoft Office. Most of my recommended programs are OSS. Give them a test drive!
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