Collection Development Statement
Last updated July 2020
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Last updated July 2020
Public Health Studies has been the largest major on the Homewood campus between 2014-2019. It is broadly interdisciplinary. In their senior year, students take most classes at East Baltimore in the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Programs offered are BA, BA/MHS (Master of Health Science), and BA/MSPH in health policy, occupational and environmental hygiene, or international health.
This collection supports teaching and research in public-health-related departments, schools, and courses throughout the university, including
The collection includes many areas of Medicine and the Social Sciences, including epidemiology, sociology, health communications, psychology, gender studies, and global health. Specific areas include statistics, demographics, sanitation, maternal/child/fetal health, infectious disease, and injuries.
This collection primarily supports undergraduates, but graduate students and other patron groups from Homewood and East Baltimore also use it.
In addition, many cross-JHU collections in medicine and social sciences support this program. The selector focuses on non-course textbooks and reference books, as well as books in new focus areas when they arise.
There is a preference for online resources.
Preferred formats
Material acquired by request or selectively
Material not collected
English
Emphasis is on current and recent scholarship. All geographic areas and peoples are included.
Sue Vazakas
svazakas@jhu.edu
410-516-4153