Month: February 2016

Lunch Poems: Judy Halebsky

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Judy Halebsky

Enjoy poetry during lunch on Thursday, February 4, 2016. Lunch Poems is a monthly series of mid-day readings.

This month features Judy Halebsky, the author of two collections of poetry, Tree Line and Sky=Empty which won the New Issues Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony and the Japanese Ministry of Culture. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she now lives in Oakland and teaches at Dominican University of California.

When: 12:10 pm – 12:50 pm, February 4, 2016

Where: Morrison Library

Admission: Free and open to the public

2014/15 Library Prize Winner: Andrea Ikeda

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Andrea Ikeda

Each academic year, the Library honors the very best undergraduate papers from courses across campus with the Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research This is the fourth in a series of posts that highlight the fantastic work of each of our2015 prize winners

Andrea Ikeda’s prize-winning paper, Cowboys, Indians, and Aliens: White Supremacy in the Klamath Basin, 1826-1946, explored parallels between the mid-1870s United States extermination of Modoc Indians and the World War II incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry on the same land seventy years later. As the Summer 2015 issue of Fiat Lux notes:

Andrea consulted a stunning array of libraries, archives, and sources, including personal journals and studies written by incarcerated Nikkei researchers employed by the University of California; confidential reports by War Relocation Authority administrators; collections of personal, creative, and academic works by Nikkei youth and students; newspapers and other community publications written behind barbed wire; collections of news clippings documenting public opinion on the war and the so-called “Japanese problem”; oral histories and interviews; and more.

Have you done some research that you’re proud of? Tell us about it.

We are accepting applications for the 2015/2016 Library prize until April 14, 2016.

Funding Available for FSM Cafe Events

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FSM Cafe Terrace

Bring your idea for a debate, panel discussion, or speaker, consider to the University Library’s FSM Café Educational Programs Committee.

UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff and campus groups are encouraged to apply for funding at least 6 weeks before the date of the proposed event.

Funding typically covers the cost of catering, publicity, and special equipment rental. Travel costs and honoraria for speakers are also considered. Programs also receive a $250 stipend after the event.

The committee is looking for programs that stimulate public discussion on political, cultural, and social issues that appeal to a broad audience, which exemplify the spirit of critical engagement of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement.

Find more details and the application from the website.

Send questions to fsm-info@lists.berkeley.edu

Richmond Instruction: PubMed Advanced Hands-On

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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016, 10:00am-11:30am
Training Room P-1246
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Richmond, CA

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RSVP by Tuesday, February 9th to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.
Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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NON-BUILDING P OCCUPANTS: Please make sure to register so your name will be on the class participant list given to the Building P Security Desk for entry into Building P.

PLEASE NOTE: This class is limited to 16 participants. A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for a possible additional class.

It is highly recommended, but not required, that you have already taken the PubMed Basics class, or already have a basic understanding of and ability to search PubMed. This class will not cover what was covered in the PubMed Basics class.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend, if appropriate.

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* Want to learn more about finding and using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)?

* Want to know how to effectively use MeSH subheadings?

* Want to learn how to use “evidence-based medicine” filters, useful for both clinical medicine and epidemiology?

* Want to learn about using PubMed’s Topic-Specific Queries, such as Comparative Effectiveness, Healthy People 2020, Health Disparities, and more?

* Interested in alternative PubMed interfaces that facilitate seeing new patterns or insights on your search results?

* Interested in other advanced features of PubMed?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s PubMed Advanced Hands-On class!

Topics covered will include:

1. More about MeSH
2. Using MeSH Subheadings effectively
3. Clinical Queries
4. Topic-Specific Queries
5. Alternative PubMed Interfaces
6. Other Advanced PubMed features

Class Objective:
This class will teach you how to create more focused searches using MeSH and MeSH subheadings, and to quickly find “evidence-based medicine” citations utilizing PubMed’s pre-defined clinical queries.

These training sessions are free to CDPH staff. A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

A schedule of other upcoming training sessions is available here.

Sacramento Instruction: Health Statistics and Data Resources

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Thursday, February 25, 2016, 1:30-2:30pm
Hearing Room 72.167
1500 Capitol Ave, Sacramento

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RSVP by Tuesday, February 23rd to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.
Please obtain your supervisor’s approval before you RSVP.

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Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

Having difficulty finding the health statistics or data that you need?

Do you want to know where to look for the answers for the following questions?
* How many people in Alameda County have been immunized with the flu shot?
* How many Hispanics in Contra Costa County for 2012?
* How do I find health status reports for California counties?
* How can I get raw data from a national survey that describes nutritional and behavioral factors associated with mortality?

Do you want to be able to download and save data?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Health Statistics and Data Resources class!

Some of the topics that will be covered:

1. Vital Statistics
2. Incidence and Prevalence Statistics
3. National Surveys
4. GIS Data
5. California Statistics

Class Objectives:
After this session, you will be able to more quickly and easily locate quality health-related statistics and datasets. You will also be able to identify some significant issues associated with the collection of health statistics.

These training sessions are free to CDPH staff. A certificate of completion will be available for those who attend the class.

A schedule of other upcoming training sessions is available for you to plan ahead.

Professional Development: Introduction to Project Management, an edX course

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Do you sometimes find yourself in charge of projects? Have you ever wanted to learn more effective ways to plan, scope, schedule, cost and manage them? Then this might be the class for you!

Project management is an essential skill-set for many careers and in many contexts in our lives. Beginning on February 17, 2016, you will learn practical ways to use project management skills, whether your project is large or small.

In the course, you will see practical ways to explore and understand your goals from the outset of your project, and to consider all the factors that may affect its execution.

This course will also enable you to explore how you can effectively communicate, manage people and employ leadership skills to successfully complete the project.

Dates: Begins on Feb. 17 and runs for 6 weeks
Effort: 2-3 hours a week
Cost: Free, and you may add a Verified Certificate for $50 if you wish

Please go to the class description at edX for more information or to register.

New AIDSinfo HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines App Released

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Have you ever needed or wanted to check the latest HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines right away? Now you can!

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the release of a new AIDSinfo Treatment Guidelines app for both iOS and Android devices. The AIDSinfo Treatment Guidelines app provides mobile access to the HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines developed by working groups of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council. The guidelines include recommendations by expert panels on the treatment of HIV infection and related opportunistic infections in adults, adolescents, and children and on the management of perinatal HIV infection.

The app will enable you to:

* Receive alert notifications when a new guideline is released or guideline content is updated
* Bookmark sections of a guideline
* Add notes to sections of a guideline
* Share guidelines and notes via social media, email, or text
* Search for information within guidelines
* Use the guideline spell suggest feature for searching when connected to wireless or using cellular data

New MeSH terms for 2016

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Finding the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) term for your search topic can often help you retrieve more relevant results and help ensure that you don’t miss articles.

MeSH is the National Library of Medicine controlled vocabulary thesaurus which is updated annually. NLM uses the MeSH thesaurus to index articles from thousands of biomedical journals for the MEDLINE/PubMed database.

For the 2016 update to its MeSh terms, the NLM added 438 descriptors and replaced 17 others with more up-to-date terminology. In addition, 9 descriptors and 1 qualifier were deleted.

Here are a few of the new 2016 terms for your perusal. They include some minor adjustments, and a few surprises.

* Compassion Fatigue
* Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys
* Data Anonymization
* Digital Divide
* Gender Dysphoria
* Grandparents
* Infant Health (replacing Infant Welfare)
* Legendary Creatures
* Literacy
* Maternal Health (replacing Maternal Welfare)
* Open Access Publishing
* Pedestrians
* Presenteeism
* Romanticism

Remember that these MeSH are new for 2016, so they won’t have a lot of articles tagged with them just yet, and most are not retroactive.

CDPH in the News, January 2016

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CDPH in the News

California ends Ebola monitoring of travelers returning from West Africa
from Los Angeles Times

The California Department of Public Health has announced that it no longer will monitor travelers returning from West Africa for symptoms of Ebola. Citing an end to outbreaks of the disease in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, health officials said they were ending their Ebola monitoring program following consultation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"With the three West African nations free of Ebola Virus Disease, daily monitoring of returning travelers will no longer be required due to the low possibility of transmission of the disease into the United States," the health department said in a prepared statement.

California Details 59 Cases of Rare Polio-like Syndrome
from Medscape

Fifty-nine cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been identified in California in the past 3 years. Most cases of this rare polio-like syndrome have occurred in children and young adults, and the precise cause remains unclear, although a viral cause is highly suspected. The 59 California cases of acute flaccid myelitis, which encompass a subset of acute flaccid paralysis cases with radiologic or neurophysiologic findings suggestive of spinal motor neuron involvement, were reported to the California Department of Public Health between June 2012 and July 2015.

California’s Pro-Vaccination Law May Be Working
from Wired

Vaccination rates among California kindergartners rose last year, and fewer students skipped shots because of their parents’ personal beliefs about immunizations, according to state officials. The changes, though slight, suggest that a state law barring parents from refusing to have their kids vaccinated appears to have had some impact even before taking effect later this year.
More than half a million children attend public or private kindergarten in California. Information collected during the fall for the 2015-2016 school year shows 92.9 percent of children received all of the required vaccinations. That’s up from 90.4 percent in 2014 and 90.2 percent in 2013, according to a report by the California Department of Public Health.

UCI Medical Student Alvin Chan Uses Fotonovela Approach to Raise HPV Vaccination Awareness
from newswise

Fourth-year medical student Alvin Chan is taking a novel approach to raise HPV awareness – a comic novel approach. He and his colleagues created and evaluated a fotonovela (photographic comic book) designed to improve human papillomavirus vaccination acceptance in the United States, particularly among Latinos. [He is] working with the California Department of Public Health to have the fotonovela disseminated on their website.

New Books!

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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.