Review:
This site contains photos, illustrations, and videos relating to field of public health that are free for use, with a few exceptions. The images can be used on websites, in campaign materials, presentations and more.
The image quality of the pictures on the site is ok. Some are even pretty good, but I was mostly unimpressed.
The indexing is terrible. The site claims to use MeSH, but if you perform a category search for pregnant women, you get different results than if you search the terms pregnant, pregnancy, etc. The MeSH search should bring up all images of pregnant women no matter what the keyword labels are. Most of the sites I viewed were very difficult to search, but I expected more from the CDC.
On the homepage there are featured collections including Health Behaviors and Everyday Activities which were the first two that I clicked on. Health Behaviors says it includes images depicting actions that keep people healthy and safe, but when you click on it, the first 3 pages of images are of food (potatoes and fish mostly, but also lobsters and crabs in tanks and a few veggies), turtles, a snake, various birds, and rats on display in pet stores. There aren't even any people until you hit the fourth page.
Recommended Use for Public Health Messaging:
There are images that would be valuable for public health messaging such as images that show people getting the flu vaccine, exercising, choosing health foods, etc., but it's hard to find what you're looking for.
Similar Tools:
WikiMedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
NIH Image Bank https://imagebank.nih.gov/
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