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I've been collecting public health content for almost as long as I've been using a computer and I began using a 360k dual floppy drive computer in 1984. It was so new then, but it didn't even have a hard drive, just the two floppies. 

As a result, I have a large collection of public health and related sites that I like to periodically visit. Plus, I keep my eyes open for new sources of sites. I belong to more lists than I can count and use them as sources. I even look at sig files from my public health colleagues for possible sites since you never know where you'll find something of interest. Since I'm visiting the sites anyway, I thought I would write a brief description and add them to this blog.

I'm trying to describe potentially useful and interesting public health sites for practitioners in the field, and for those people who provide information services to public health practitioners. Bound up with all of this is my desire to improve what I am calling "personal informatics," that is, the knowledge of how to use computers to find, organize, use, and disseminate information. Public health is driven by information and so is the health of the public.

This is fun for me. I basically have few bones to pick and will be discussing the content rather than political, social or other implications of the site.

My dream is to someday have a searchable database so that folks can retrieve interesting sites by searching by keyword or by text word. I also want to have the time to create enough content to send out as an electronic newsletter.

If you have an interesting public health site you want to send me, contact me at larsson@u.washington.edu .