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Resources and Links

Public Health Associations and Organizations

What Is Public Health? http://www.whatispublichealth.org
An overview of the field of public health and careers in public health.

Association of Schools of Public Health http://www.asph.org
The national association of the Council on Education for Public Health accredited schools of public health.

American Public Health Association http://www.apha.org
A national association of individual and organizational members working to better the public’s health.

"Healthiest Nation in One Generation" http://www.generationpublichealth.org/pg_spread.htm
An APHA video on what public health is and what you can do.

Society for Public Health Education http://www.sophe.org
An international association of professionals and students involved in health education.

United States Department of Health and Human Services www.hhs.gov
The principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.

Healthy People 2010 www.healthypeople.gov
National goals developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve the nation’s health.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov
The CDC is a nationally focused organization conducting disease prevention, health promotion, and education.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) http://www.nih.gov
NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) http://www.niehs.nih.gov/NIEHS is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services and seeks to understand, research, and communicate to the public how the environment influences human health.

Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov
The national agency that researches, educates, and assesses how to protect human health and the environment.

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials www.astho.org
A national nonprofit that represents state and territorial public health agencies.

National Association of County and City Health Officials www.naccho.org
The national organization that represent local health departments in the U.S.

Association of Public Health Laboratories www.aphl.org
A national and global association that seeks to strengthen public health laboratories.