Donna Hesson
Public Health Informationist
Informationist Services
1900 E. Monument Street, Room 113
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Office Hours
Main BPSH (Wolfe St.) building, 2nd floor landing near the Daily Grind, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9:00am – 2 pm. Also available by appointment.
Biographical Information

Working as a professional librarian since 1979, Ms. Hesson brings solid experience in information services and management. She has been employed by Johns Hopkins University for over thirty years in various information services and information management capacities. Her current role as a Public Health Informationist is to serve the information needs of the faculty, staff and students of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as well as other members of the East Baltimore campus. In that role, she provides instruction on how to access the wide-ranging resources through the Welch Medical Library and Sheridan Libraries websites, instructs how to use citation management products, collaborates with researchers in systematic reviews, and provides information sessions as well as one-on-one instruction on how to effectively search the various literature databases.

Education

Ms. Hesson was granted a Master's degree in Library Science at Florida State University in 1979 and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Library Science in 1978 at Florida State University.

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