Environmental Health & Occupational Health Toolkit

• Grant Resources
  Starting points for funding databases, grant sources, and grant writing. 
• UW School of Public Health Job Listings
  Public Health Jobs and Fellowships approved by a moderator.
• APHA CareerMart
  Career guidance and job postings by the American Public Health Association (APHA).
• PublicHealth Career Guide
  List of public health fields and careers.
• CDC Health Department Directories
  Directory of U.S. health departments.
• Washington State Local Health Departments and Districts
  Find your local department of health in Washington State.

• Statistics Sources in the Health Sciences
  UW HSL guide to sources for local, state, national and international statistics and data.
• Data Resources in the Health Sciences
  UW HSL guide to sources for data including citation guidance.
• Environment and Climate: Alternative Data Sources
  University of Southern California guide to alternative access points for common environment and climate resources.
• Federal Data: Alternative Access
  UW Libraries guide with alternative access points for federal data that has been removed from official sources.
• CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
  Health and environmental data from national, state, and city sources on environments and hazards, health effects, and population health.
• Department of Ecology Databases
  State of Washington
• EPA Data
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data.
• EPA Region 10: Pacific NW
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency news and information regarding Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and 271 Tribal Nations.
• EPA EJScreen
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool.
• National Library of Medicine Data Distribution
  Access to bulk downloading of datasets including ChemIDplus, GENE-TOX, HSDB, etc

• Knovel Books
  Ebooks in environmental, food, and pharmaceutical sciences, and industrial safety & hygiene subject areas.
• Dissertations and Theses at UW
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
  Index to dissertations and theses from all fields of study.
• Beyond Pesticides
• The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)
  Partnership addressing critical issues in workplace safety and health.
• NTIS & NTRL
  U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical and engineering business-related information.
• Sightline Institute
  Independent, nonprofit environmental research and communications center.

• Bioengineering Research Guide
  UW guide to researching bioengineering including laboratory protocols, drug information, etc.
• Chemistry-Chemical Information Research Guide
  UW guide to researching chemistry including drug and chemical compound information, American Chemical Society (ACS) publications, etc.
• Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Guide
  UW guide to researching and understanding aquatic and fishery sciences.
• Environmental Health & Justice Guide: Alternative Access
  Archived copy of the NNLM guide to Environmental Health & Justice.

• U.S. & Global E-Newspapers
  UW guide to accessing subscription news through UW subscriptions.
• Toxic-Free Future
  News from Toxic-Free Future, a national nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

• MyChem
  UW EH&S MyChem MSDS/SDS search (requires NetID).

• Environmental Health and the U.S. Federal System : Sustainably Managing Health Hazards 
  2019 ebook
• Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM)
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (HHS ASPR).
• Emergency Response Guidebook
  2020 ebook. U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (USDOT/PHMSA) guidebook for first responders during the initial phase of a transportation incident involving dangerous goods/hazardous materials.
• Hazardous Materials Release
  Department of Homeland Security resource on hazardous materials preparedness, response, and recovery.
• CAMEO Chemicals
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) database of hazardous chemical datasheets.
• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG)
  General industrial hygiene information for hundreds of chemicals/classes.
• ATSDR ToxProfiles
  Peer-reviewed compilation of toxicological information on given hazardous substances.

Nikki Dettmar, MSIS, MS

Public Health and Research Services Librarian

snydern@uw.edu

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