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Himmelfarb Library is pleased to announce the addition of the Global Health database from CABI Publishing to its collection. Global Health provides information on human health and communicable diseases from an international perspective.

In addition to journal literature, Global Health contains information on books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, and annual reports. Topically, Global Health covers communicable diseases (including HIV/AIDS), tropical diseases (including field and experimental studies), parasitic diseases and parasitology-medical entomology, human nutrition (including food composition, food poisoning, effects of diet on health, nutritional disorders, and experimental aspects), community and public health (including chronic diseases, occupational health, health status indicators, the impact of agriculture on health, and cancer epidemiology), and medicinal and poisonous plants (including pharmacology, tissue culture, animal studies, plant composition, allergens, and toxins). Global Health covers literature from 1973 through the present and is produced by CABI Publishing.

Global Health is offered through Ovid Technologies and so will have the same familiar search interface as other Ovid databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, etc.). Currently, Global Health can be accessed from on-campus locations and from off-campus locations via VPN or EZproxy. Global Health will be available on ALADIN soon. For information on off-campus access to resources, please consult Himmelfarb Library’s Off-Campus Access Instructions available at: http://www.gwumc.edu/library/resources/offcampusinstr.cfm.