2023-2024 Public Health Digital Library Departments and Sites

Posted by Javier Crespo on June 7th, 2023 Posted in: Blog

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In May we marked the start of the 2023-2024 access year.  Thirty-four health department units (two of these state wide local health departments have committed to continuing their access to the Public Health Digital Library for another year.  Four additional public health entities have joined the PHDL program this year.

 

Alabama Department of Public Health is the newest state public health department joining the program.  ADPH’s Office of Informatics and Data Analysis contacted us to help in supporting the department’s data driven decision-making.  Alabama DPH joins state health departments in Tennessee and South Carolina as part of NNLM’s Region 2.

We are also welcoming the University of  South Alabama’s Baugh Biomedical Library as a Partner Library.  The library will be providing document delivery support to ADPH.

 

 

 

Arizona Local Health Departments.  Twenty-plus local health departments covering the entire state have access to the PHDL through the support of Arizona’s Department of Health Services.  Arizona DHS joins state health departments in Washington and Colorado providing PHDL access to their corresponding health agencies.

 

 

 

NPHCO now makes available the PHDL to other public health organizations.  This is a new venture for us and we are pleased to have two associations join the program:

 

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials: ASTHO joins the program supporting its staff (not members) with PHDL access.  ASTHO supports public health advancing the capabilities of health officials across the country.  ASTHO develops strengthens public health leadership, provides technical assistance, and advocacy.

 

The National Network of Public Health Institutes: NNPHI provides technical assistance, research, and program evaluation, to over 40 public health institutes.  NNPHI organizes member institutes addressing critical health issues.  Public health institutes are small teams dispersed throughout 40 states.  Public health institutes are nonprofits making systematic improvements in population health.

 

To encompass our broadened user base, we use the terms entities or sites.  We are excited to bring newer sectors of the public health workforce to the PHDL program and we welcome all our new sites!