Health Sciences: Special Topics & Exhibits

As we develop this guide, we'll use this Special Topics page to link to project areas of interest in health research at VT, and to highlight trending issues and current events. We'll link to each page below:

One Health

Native Voices - Online Exibit and Resources about Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness

Community Health

Consumer Health

Disaster Medicine 

Population Health Sciences - seeks to improve the health of populations and communities in southwest and southside Virginia, the Commonwealth, Central Appalachia, the nation, and beyond by training future public health leaders

Intellectual Property Guides to leverage your rights and meet your responsibilities as an author and consumer

• Fair Use
• Open Access
  • U. S. Copyright
• Open Educational Resources

Health Sciences Librarians

• Kiri DeBose, Director, Health Sciences Libraries -- health specialization: Head, Veterinary Medicine (VetMed) Library, and has administrative oversight of the VTCSOM Library & Learning Commons and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and Health Sciences & Technology Library. Also serves as the liaison to Animal Sciences; primary subject expertise in veterinary medicine, and animal sciences, secondary in environment and human medicine

• Tim Mey, Head, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) Library -- Liaison to School of Medicine

• Roberto Silva, Head, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and Health Sciences & Technology (FBRI HS&T) Library, Liaison to Translational Biology, Medicine & Health

• Ginny Pannabecker, Assistant Dean and Director of Research, Collaboration and Engagement -- specialization: health sciences and life sciences expertise

Collaborative Librarians w/Health Sciences areas

• Anne Brown, Science Informatics Consultant & Health Analytics Coordinator

• Jackson Hoch, Evidence Synthesis Resident Librarian -- health specialization: Liaison to Human Nutrition Foods & Exercise

• Inga Haugen, Agriculture, Life Sciences, and Scholarly Communication Librarian -- health specialization: plants, soils, Extension, ag econ, ag tech, entomology, food science, and biological systems engineering.

• Amanda MacDonald, Undergraduate Research Services Librarian -- health specialization: Human Development 

• Rachel Miles, Research Impact Librarian -- health specialization: Neuroscience, Psychology​

Whole Health and One Health are transdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary endeavors. Identify and Contact additional VT Librarians who specialize in and support researchers in delving into areas such as politics and policy, natural resources and the environment, social sciences, the arts, and more.