"IHPR seeks to bridge the University's research and educational programs across the behavioural, biomedical, educational, environmental and social sciences disciplines and to bring them into closer working relationships with community groups and agencies pursuing this vision of health."

"The Institute encourages and expands the wide variety of related research at UBC and provides a focus for new work into areas such as:

nature and determinants of population health
epidemiology of health
techniques of health education, media advocacy, social marketing and program evaluation
economics of health promotion
computer applications in program planning
modification of behavioural risk factors and environmental risk conditions
integration of traditional and innovative methods of health care, self care and mutual aid.?

One interesting publication is titled, Guidelines and Categories for Classifying Participatory Research Projects in Health Promotion

MedWeb: Public Health  - Emory University

Short annotations for each link. Lots of good public health information here.

Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research

ScHARR brings together a wide range of health related skills including inter alia: health economics, operational research, management sciences, epidemiology, medical statistics, and information science. There are also clinical skills in general practice and primary care, psychiatry, rehabilitation and public health. It includes the Medical Care Research Unit, the Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, and the Sections of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Psychiatry (including Forensic Psychiatry), Health Economics, Operational Research and Information Resources. ScHARR also has its own European Office, providing the expertise to enable ScHARR to set up and develop quality European activities.

Find publications, online courses and guides, and research. I liked the titles of the freely available courses: 

• Critical appraisal and using the literature
• Evidence Based Consumer Information
• Getting Research Into practice,
  
• Roles of information specialists in supporting Evidence Based Health Care
• What is Evidence Based Health Care and why is it important?
  

Rollins The Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society   

Points to sections within the Center conducting specific kinds of research.

1. Health Promotion Research Centers at Universities around the word
2. Links to Other Health Pormotion Centers
3. Other links of Health Promotion and Public Health interest.

Michigan Center on The Demography of Aging (MiCDA)   

This center specializes in research on:

• Retirement, health and well-being of the elderly
• Socioeconomic status and health
• Demographic and survey methods
• The dynamics of intergenerational exchanges
• Demographic analysis of the aging of disadvantaged populations
• Demographic/economic evaluation of the impact of public policies on retirement

Find publications, data resources, people, projects and publications. Oh, and news, too.

Hopkins Center on the Demography of Aging

Fosters interdisciplinary research on aging. Pretty terse site.

The Center for Human Nutrition

The Johns Hopkins Center for Human Nutrition is a multidisciplinary effort to advance research, training, and public service in the field of human nutrition. It is based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and collaborates with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Its mission is to generate new knowledge, to train the next generation of nutrition scientists, and to develop innovative approaches to domestic and international challenges in public health nutrition.

The Hopkins Population Center

Another terse Hopkins site. Find Research, publications, core services, seminars. The library does provide some interesting links.

University of Minnesota, Academic Health Center Research Centers, Resources and Facilities
http://www.ahc.umn.edu/pages.html#cr&f

University of Minnesota, Medical School Centers
http://www.med.umn.edu/main/programs.html

School of Public Health Research Centers
http://www.sph.umn.edu/ReseTrai.htm

University of California at Berkeley Center on Aging

Urban Institute

National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems

Advocacy and professional development.

Global Health: Key Resources (Public Health)

November 3, 2002: This Mexican site is very good but hasn't been updated for some time.

The best place to check journal abbreviations used in the Biomedical
format (when writing papers to submit to medical journals) is PubMed.

To check citations when you only have some of the information use NLM's Citation Matcher for Single Articles:

Examples:

JAMA (this one is correct)
Journal of the American Medical Associaiton (spelling; name written out in full)

Ann rev public health (incorrect - note lack of capital letters)
Annu Rev Public Health (this one is correct)

Source: Yuki Durham, Health Services, University of Washington

revised November 3, 2002