The Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries designed to help the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health.

The site includes a number of sections that could prove useful to environmental journalists. In the Health Promotion and Health Education section, the partners list the various programs available for general public information and education. For example, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality links to Bioterrorism Planning and Responses, Consumers & Patients, Fact Sheets, Preventive Services, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. The National Library of Medicine links to HIV/AIDS Information, Household Products Database, MedlinePlus, and ToxTown.

The Literature and Guidelines section links resources that access public health literature including journal articles, journals, newsletters, reports and other publications, and guidelines from a wide range of sources, not just to titles from members of the Partners project.

The Health Data Tools and Statistics section is divided into health statistics, national public health data sets, state and local public health data sets, public health infrastructure data, search for other tools, and tools for data collection and planning. Health statistics include:

• CDC Data and Statistics - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Data & Surveys - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• Demographic, Social and Housing Statistics - (United Nations)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), America's Children and the Environment: A First View of Available Measures
• FASTATS A-Z - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Listing and quick links for basic public health statistical data.
• Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course - (National Library of Medicine, National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology) - Slide Presentation, October 2000
• Health Data - (Pan American Health Organization)
• HRSA Data and Statistics - (Health Resources and Services Administration)
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau Data - (Health Resources and Services Administration)
• National Center for Health Statistics - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health - (University of Pittsburgh) - Internet-based distance learning material for health-related students
• Unintentional Injury Prevention and Behavioral Science Web Site - (Society for Public Health Education)
• World Health Organization Statistical Information System - WHOSIS

The partners include:

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• Medical Library Association (MLA)
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM)
• Public Health Foundation (PHF)
• Society for Public Health