Environmental Public Health / Health Inspector: OER

Here you will find resources that are either OERs with a Creative Commons (CC) license or media that is currently in the Public Domain (usually the copyright has expired). When using these resources, check the licenses or verify that the information is in the public domain.  

"OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others." ~ William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

Image: "Open Educational Resources" by Ron Mader is licensed under CC BY 2.0

For a more comprehensive overview on OER, see:

• BCIT Open Educational Resources - a guide designed to assist faculty in the exploration, identification, selection and adoption of Open Educational Resources.
• Self-Publishing Guide from BCcampus - Information on planning, writing, publishing, and maintaining OER. Copyright and licensing information. Checklists and templates available.

OER Repositories

• BC Campus Open Textbooks about Health Science
• MedEdPORTAL by the Association of American Medical Colleges
• Mason OER Metafinder Searches across notable OER collections including MERLOT, OASIS, and OER Commons
• MERLOT: Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Searches 90,000+ records with the option to search other OER collections and the web
• MERLOT: Public Health  Searches 90,000+ records with the option to search other OER collections and the web
• OASIS: Public Health  Searches 380,000+ records from 90+ reputable OER sites
• openNCCC: Open Educational Resources
• OER Commons: Environmental Health Searches 50,000+ records of curated, high-quality OERs
• OER Commons: Health, Medicine, and Nursing  Searches 50,000+ records of curated, high-quality OERs
• Creative Commons Search

Courses and Related Materials

• MIT OpenCourseWare: Public Health  Course content from MIT
• Open Michigan: Public Health  Syllabi, assignments, lectures, course materials, student work, and labs
• Open WHO Online courses, MOOCs, on epidemiology offered by the World Health Organization
• Pandemic Influenza Severity Index course Online course from WHO on using this tool for determining if the disease has reached epidemic or pandemic proportions.
• Adaptive Clinical Trial Design Series of 6 lectures by Vanderbilt University's Professor Yu Shyr and others, varying in length from 22-44 minutes.
• Design and Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials Series of 7 lectures each on design and analysis and 4 on theory dated 2007-2016 by Dr. Vance Berger and others, varying in length between 20 minutes and 1 hr.
• Unequal Allocation in Clinical Trials 24-minute Henry Stewart alk by Olga Kuznetsova of Merck & Co. Inc.

Primary Sources / Data Sets

• B.C. local governments data portals   TRU libguide
• Building Understanding of Environmental Health Toolkit  Statistics, framing recommendations, graphics, and videos
• Canada Health Data  Resources on the state of Canadians' health, including statistics, facts, reports and data.
• Canada Open Government  Data disclosed as part of the federal government’s commitment to enhance accountability and transparency.
• Data.gov  Data from federal, state, local, and tribal U.S. government
• GreenFacts  Scientific reports on health, the environment and sustainable development
• Google Dataset Search  Search across thousands of data repositories across the Web
• Health Statistics & Data  UofT Libguide
• Health Statistics Branch (HSB) of Statistics Canada 
• United States Census Bureau: Health  Health data published by the United States government
• WHO (World Health Organization) — Open Data Repository  Health-related statistics for more than 1000 indicators for its 194 Member States

Adapted from Rowan College

BC CDC/NCCEH Approach -- PRESENTATIONS at BCIT