Finding Buried Health Data
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Time
12-12:45 p.m.
Location
Description
Are the mortality records you’re looking for long departed? Is the website of infectious disease stats you needed a ghostly memory? If you need to dig up sources of health information from the archival and digital graveyards, this workshop is for you. Join history of health sciences librarian, Hannah Swan, and public health librarian, Susan Vandagriff, as they show you how to resurrect historical health data using archival materials, vital records, the Wayback Machine, and more.
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Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-1174 (voice only) or email susan.vandagriff@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Wednesday, October 15, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.