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A Civil Action
An Inconvenient Truth
And the Band Played On
Buzz and Bite Malaria Prevention Campaign (PSA Series)
Erin Brockovich
Fast Food Nation
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Insider
Outbreak
Philadelphia
Planet Earth (National Geographic)
Rx for Survival (PBS)
Sicko
Silkwood
Super Size Me
The Three Amigos
This Is Public Health (ASPH)

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Dining Decisions
Drinking and Ground Water Kids Stuff (EPA)  
Grades K-3
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Kinetic City
Medical Mysteries
My Food and My World
NSF Scrub Club
Outbreak at Watersedge: A Public Health Discovery Game
Re-Mission

 

Movies from the CDC

A New Era of Preparedness
Break the Silence
Knees Lifted High
Plate Full of Color
Through the Eyes of the Eagle
Tricky Treats

Reading List

Barry, J. M. (2004). The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Viking.

Brandt, A (2007). The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. Basic Books.

Bullard, R. (2000). Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality.Westview Press.

Carson, Rachel (1962). Silent Spring.

de Villiers, M. (2001). Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource. Mariner Books.

Diamond, Jared ( 2005). Guns, Germs, And Steel. W.W. Norton.

Civilians Under Fire: Humanitarian Practices in the Congo Republic 1998-2000. Doctors without Borders.

Garrett, L. (1994). The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Farmer, P. (2003). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Garrett, L. (2000). Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. New York: Hyperion.

Kidder, T. (2003). Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House.

Lee, R. A. (2007). From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers.

Mari, C. (2007). Global Epidemics. New York: H.W. Wilson Co.

Nestle, M. (2002). Food Politics: How the food industry influences nutrition and health. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Oshinsky, D. (2006), Polio: An American Story.Oxford University Press

Pierce, J. R., & Writer, J. (2005). Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley.

Pollan, Michael(2007). The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin Group

Pollan, Michael(2009). In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. New York: Penguin Group

Preston, R. (2002). The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story. New York: Random House.

Salyers, A. A., & Whitt, D. D. (2005). Revenge of the Microbes: How Bacterial Resistance is Undermining the Antibiotic Miracle. Washington, DC: ASM Press.

Shilts, R. (1987). And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Schlosser, E. (2001). Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. TX.

Sinclair, Upton ( 1906). The Jungle.

Von Drehle, D. (2004). Triangle: The Fire that Changed America. Grove Press.