History

The WWW Virtual Library: Public Health

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The WWW Virtual Library: Public Health was originally created by the late Eberhard Wenzel with Lucien Schlosser in 1997, as one part of the wider WWW Virtual Library established to form an accessible portal to the ever-increasing world-wide web.

The purpose of this Library was, and still is, to bring together public health sites and resources in a systematic and easily accessible way for all those wishing to be in touch with the most relevant and meaningful public health resources. We live in a world of rapid change and the library is only as good as its ability to reflect that change. Eberhard managed to maintain the site with daily additions and modifications, and those of us valuing the site only realised the extent of his dedication to the task when the pages were no longer updated on his untimely death in September 2001. [View the original website]

Some of us have been determined to rescue the site from extinction and we are proud to bring it to you in its new form, as a resource of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. We are also very happy to have secured collaboration with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, with whom Eberhard had a long and productive relationship, to strengthen our ability to tap useful sources and make interesting connections.

The Virtual Library: Public Health is maintained and developed by the UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

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