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Public Health

Resources for the Brown Public Health program

Community/Environmental Issues

Canary Database – (animal sentinels of exposure)

CDC’s National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals

Specialized resources

Alcohol Studies Databases - Rutgers

Child Welfare Information Gateway

LILACS (Latin America and the Caribbean)

Maternal Child Health Library - Georgetown

NIAAA - National Inst. on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism databases

News/Legislation/Policy

Congressional Quarterly Almanac

Harvard Catalyst Policy Atlas

LexisNexis Academic

PAIS International

ProQuest Newspapers

Providence Journal

Rhode Island General Assembly

See also Brown Library Government Information Resources

Research in Progress

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing
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Listings of active industry and government-sponsored clinical trials, as well as new drug therapies in research and those recently approved by the FDA.
Clinical Trials.gov
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Provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
Current Controlled Trials
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Allows users to search, register and share information about randomized controlled trials. International in scope. Includes NIH's ClinicalTrials.gov
NIH RePORTER (formerly CRISP)
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A searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions
Community of Science Funding Opportunities

Patient Information and Multicultural Resources

Consumer Health Information in Many Languages

NIH News in Health

Refugee Health Information Network

In searching PubMed, Cultural Competency is now a MeSH term.

More Public Health sites

Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce