New Books!

The Public Health Library has a new CDPH licensed ebook for you:

1. Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests, 9th Edition. FT Fischbach and MB Dunning. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015.
To access this, you’ll need to be at a CDPH location. Or use your web portal to access it or to get the password to access it.

The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:

1. Facilitator’s guide to participatory decision-making, 3rd ed. By Sam Kaner with Lenny Lind, Catherine Toldi, Sarah Fisk, and Duane Berger. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons/Jossey-Bass, 2014.
Call number: HD30.23 .K2753 2014.
See a description, the table of contents and an excerpt on the publisher’s website.

2. Population health: creating a culture of wellness, 2nd ed. Edited by David B. Nash, Raymond J. Fabius, Alexis Skoufalos and others. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2016.
Call number: RA395.A3 P638 2016.
View the table of contents, sample chapters, and description at the publisher’s website.

3. Research methods in health promotion, 2nd ed. Edited by Laura F. Salazar, Richard A. Crosby, and Ralph J. DiClemente. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand, 2015.
Call number: RA427.8 .R46 2015.
Read a preview, see the table of contents, and read reviews at amazon.com.

and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press which require a free registration to download a pdf of the title:

4. Bringing Public Health into Urban Revitalization: Workshop Summary. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015.

5. Global Health Risk Framework: Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems to Respond to Global Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Workshop Summary. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016.

6. The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Health Systems Strengthening: Workshop Summary. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.