Libraries at Yale

When you pursue a degree in Public Health at Yale School of Public Health, you receive outstanding research support from Yale Library. YSPH students have access to 15 libraries across the Yale campus, over 22,000 electronic biomedical journals, thousands of online resources including ebooks, bioinformatics tools, and clinical resources, and a public health librarian dedicated to your information needs.

Your home library is the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library located in the Sterling Hall of Medicine at 333 Cedar St. The Medical Library is open 7 days a week (until midnight on weekdays), and features 2 reading rooms, a newly renovated Information Commons with Windows and Mac desktop computers, printing and scanning services, reservable meeting rooms, and a robust print collection (plus laptops, audiovisual equipment, boardgames, and more for loan). Additionally, the Medical Library’s Historical wing houses rare books and manuscripts, prints and drawings, historical medical posters, and the Cushing brain and tumor specimen collection.

A dedicated public health librarian supports your educational journey in a variety of areas including citation management, database searching, data management, literature reviews, critical appraisal, and publishing. Schedule a one-on-one consultation or drop by their weekly office hours for any question you may have.