Public Health Links

Please note that links to other sites on the Internet have been provided as a service. The City of Milwaukee Health Department is not responsible for the content of these sites and does not warrant the accuracy of the information which is made available. Use of the information is at the risk of the user.

 Health-Related Government Agencies

• Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS)

• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR)

• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• U.S. Department of Homeland Security

 Water Quality Related Websites

•  Wisconsin Beach Monitoring

• Madison & Dane County Beach Monitoring

• U.S. EPA Beach Monitoring & Notification

•  American Water Works Association (AWWA)

• EPA's Surf Your Watershed

• U.S. EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water

• Great Lakes Coast Watch Program

• Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD)

• U.S. EPA Lake Michigan Management Plan

• Lake Michigan Monitoring Coordination Council

• Lake Michigan Forum

• U.S. EPA Lake Michigan Mass Balance

• Milwaukee Water Works

• Great Lakes Beachcast 

 Academic Institutions

• Marquette University Clinical Laboratory Science Program

• Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) Clinical Laboratory Technician Program

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) College of Health Sciences

• UWM School of Freshwater Sciences

• UWM Zilber School of Public Health

• Emerging Infections Network (EINet)

• Loyola University Department of Microbiology & Immunology

• Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology

 Other Associations/Organizations

• American Society for Clinical  Pathology

• ATCC Biological Resource Center

• Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• National Laboratory Training Network

• College of American Pathologists (CAP)

• Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)

• The Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network

• Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH)

• American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

• Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA)

• California Association of Public Health Laboratory Directors

• American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)

• American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)

• American Public Health Association (APHA)

• Wisconsin Public Health Association (WPHA)

Resources

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

• SciCentral

• CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

• Medscape: Medical News, Full-text Journal Articles & More

• CDC Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)

• CDC Public Health Image Library

• CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Resource Links

• Martindale's "Virtual" Public Health Center

 Biohazard / Safety

• CDC Biosafety

Specialty Areas

• CDC Laboratory Identification of Parasites of Public Health Concern

• PARA-SITE Online

• CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

• Doctor Fungus

• The Aspergillus Website

• CDC Division of Laboratory Services