This list addresses the needs and concerns of medical anthropology graduate students, practicing anthropologists, scholars, and scholar activists who address issues of local, national and international health importance. The list and its accompanying web sites form the hub of an active research community and a storehouse for information supporting the endeavors of medical anthropologists and their colleagues in allied social science fields.

- new program in psychological/medical anthropology  "Quinlan, Marsha Bogar" <mquinlan@wsu.edu> - new titles for public health  PublicHealth@wiley.com - references on mental disabilities and socialization  Sonia Nussenzweig Hotimsky <sonianhotimsky@uol.com.br> - Short Course: Indian Psychiatry encounters Medical Anthropology  Sumeet Jain <jainsumeet@yahoo.com> - downloadable books  Charles Becker <beckerleschar@orange.sn> - Cyberounds: POISON  Dr Harry Levy <levy@cyberounds.com> - OHA request for input on revision of Evaluation Guidelines  Charles Becker <beckerleschar@orange.sn>