Welcome to the research guide for Global Public Health! This guide is a great tool for finding information for research, collecting articles for classes, and broadening your knowledge of Global Public Health. Each tab contains current and relevent resources for assisting you in collecting the best information for your project, interest, or research.
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Family & Society Studies Worldwide
Provides abstracts of English language research in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development. The core database was produced by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR).
Gender Watch
Provides the full-text of articles in 175 publications focusing on gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Continually adds archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with making this the repository of historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last fifteen to twenty years.
UN Life-Course Gender Gap
From the UN Development Program, this dashboard contains 13 indicators that display gender gaps in choices and opportunities over the life course—childhood and youth, adulthood and older age.
Provides abstracts of English language research in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development. The core database was produced by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR).
Gender Watch
Provides the full-text of articles in 175 publications focusing on gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Continually adds archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with making this the repository of historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last fifteen to twenty years.
UN Life-Course Gender Gap
From the UN Development Program, this dashboard contains 13 indicators that display gender gaps in choices and opportunities over the life course—childhood and youth, adulthood and older age.
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Agricultural & Environmental Science
Provides abstracts of the world's research literature in agricultural and environmental sciences, providing comprehensive coverage from 1967 to the present. Includes the renowned AGRICOLA, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE)
CEE is an open community working towards a sustainable global environment and the conservation of biodiversity. It seeks to promote and deliver evidence syntheses on issues of greatest concern to environmental policy and practice as a public service.
Provides abstracts of the world's research literature in agricultural and environmental sciences, providing comprehensive coverage from 1967 to the present. Includes the renowned AGRICOLA, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE)
CEE is an open community working towards a sustainable global environment and the conservation of biodiversity. It seeks to promote and deliver evidence syntheses on issues of greatest concern to environmental policy and practice as a public service.
The following sites offers publication mostly in Spanish. Information on the home and other webpages can be changed to English or Portugese (upper right corner.)
Virtual Health Library (VHL) Regional Portal
VHL provides health information from around the globe but is also the umbrella site for Latin American and Caribbean regional publication. Provides access to LILAC and PAHO databases (direct access below) and Medline articles.
Virtual Health Library (VHL) Regional Portal
VHL provides health information from around the globe but is also the umbrella site for Latin American and Caribbean regional publication. Provides access to LILAC and PAHO databases (direct access below) and Medline articles.
- Pan American Public Health Publications (PAHO) Health care publications and information resources related to the Western Hemisphere's most pressing public health issues.
- Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe en Ciencias de Salud (LILACS) Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences. For content details, see LILACS Bulletin.
Gale In Context: Global Issues
Provides analysis of global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.
ProQuest Research Library
Provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subjects including global health.
ScienceDirect
Provides full text of journal articles (including Open Access) and book chapter groups in four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences & Humanities.
Provides analysis of global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.
ProQuest Research Library
Provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subjects including global health.
ScienceDirect
Provides full text of journal articles (including Open Access) and book chapter groups in four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences & Humanities.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide
Provides abstracts of English language research in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development. The core database was produced by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR).
Provides the full-text of articles in 175 publications focusing on gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Continually adds archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with making this the repository of historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last fifteen to twenty years.
UN Life-Course Gender Gap
From the UN Development Program, this dashboard contains 13 indicators that display gender gaps in choices and opportunities over the life course—childhood and youth, adulthood and older age.
ProQuest Research Library
Provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subjects including global health.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts indexes journal articles in political science and related areas(international relations, law, public administration, and public policy).
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN is an interdisciplinary Open Access database offering abstracts and full articles at various stages of publication, including Preprint, In Review, and completed Peer Review. Create a free account to share your own work, or just browse and download material.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications. Social Planning/Policy Development (SOPODA) is included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, housing, the environment and other social issues.
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Wilson Social Sciences Full Text indexes a wide range of social sciences journals.Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994; full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
Provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subjects including global health.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts indexes journal articles in political science and related areas(international relations, law, public administration, and public policy).
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN is an interdisciplinary Open Access database offering abstracts and full articles at various stages of publication, including Preprint, In Review, and completed Peer Review. Create a free account to share your own work, or just browse and download material.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications. Social Planning/Policy Development (SOPODA) is included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, housing, the environment and other social issues.
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Wilson Social Sciences Full Text indexes a wide range of social sciences journals.Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994; full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
- Lancet Global Health
- Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm.
- Global Health Matters
- Global Health: Science and Practice
- Journal of Global Health
- Journal of Public Health
- PLOS - Global Public Health
- PloS One
More UM Journals for:
NOTE: For any resource category, e.g., Journals, Books, Databases, etc. explore resources in various subjects. Global Health, Global Public Health, Public Health overlap a lot. Check out Nursing & Health Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Business, etc.
The Lancet Global Health Portal
Lancet articles, reports, podcasts and other information focusing on issues and trends in global health. (Not all material is available without cost)
Jama Global Health Collection
Global health topics, including world infectious disease, maternal-child health, and resource and workforce challenges. (Not all material is available without cost)
The Lancet Global Health Portal
Lancet articles, reports, podcasts and other information focusing on issues and trends in global health. (Not all material is available without cost)
Jama Global Health Collection
Global health topics, including world infectious disease, maternal-child health, and resource and workforce challenges. (Not all material is available without cost)
- Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health (2021)
- Global Health 101 (2020)
- Global health in practice : investing amidst pandemics, denial of evidence, and neo-dependency (2022)
- Ethical challenges in global public health : climate change, pollution, and the health of the poor (2021)
- Illicit medicines in the Global South : public health access and pharmaceutical regulation (2022)
- Attention and Responsibility in Global Health: The Currency of Neglect (2022)
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AllAfrica "AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 1,500 news and information items daily from over 140 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos, Monrovia, Nairobi and Washington DC."
Global Health Matters Newsletter - Produced every 2 months by the Fogarty International Center, NIH which is also listed in the International Organization tab in this guide.Mail & Guardian - Launched in 1994, M&G was Africa's first online newspaper, and one of the first online newspapers in the world.
ReliefWeb - "ReliefWeb has been the leading source for reliable and timely humanitarian information on global crises and disasters since 1996."
Samachar - Samachar offers readers agregates news sources about the latest developments in India.
(News links from Cornell Global Health Guide)
Harvard Kennedy Center | Research Centers & Think Tanks
National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
Grey Literature Producing Organizations | New York Academy of Medicine.
National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
Grey Literature Producing Organizations | New York Academy of Medicine.
- Provides an enormous A-Z list of organizations that disseminate research information.
- Don't know the name of the organization? Type in the search box what you do know, e.g., the disease, topic, or country, e.g., Caribbean health.
- The results are dated (up to 2016) but with publishing organization name included in the article's or document's citaton, up to date publications from that organization can be found via, e.g., Google.
- For example, the search for Caribbean Health produced several results. One cited the Healthy Caribbean Coalition as the publisher, which has a website listing very up-to-date publications, projects, etc.
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- Nursing & Health Studies, Biology, and Psychology Librarian
- sxm1838@miami.edu
- (305) 284-2040
For more places to find Statistics & Data see:
CDC Centre for Global Health
CDC works with the WHO to promote public health and prevent infectious disease around the world.Many links to explore..
Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
A catalog to quickly find and share information about data and actual datasets for global health and demography.
Global Index Medicus - WHO
Provides global access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.
IPUMS International
From around the world, IPUMS collects and preserves census microdata and documentation, harmonizes them. and disseminates free of charge.
NationalMaster - Global Trends, Stats, & Insights for Healthcare
Expenditures in health around the world.
NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics)
Major source of health statistics from the CDC. Links to tabulated state data.
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
The international health agency (iha) of the Americas and the Regional Office for the Americas at the WHO (t. (It is the oldest iha in the world and the first to promote health research & education.) Utilize the tabs on the upper right side of the screen to fully utilize this site.
OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
OCED helps countries achieve high-performing health systems by measuring health outcomes and using health system resources & analysis of policies that improve access, efficiency & quality of health care.
OCED iLibrary
Public Health Partners
Links with annotations to health statistics and data sets as well as resources to support data collection.
UNData
Provides access to UN statistical databases through a single entry point.
UNICEF: Monitoring & Statistics
Links to statistics globally and by country.
UNICEF Research Publications & Reports
United States Census Bureau
Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
USA.gov Data & Statistics
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to global development data
University of Michigan | Global Health Information & Resources - Data & Statistics
Another rich list of Global Health Stat & Data resources.
Statista
The database provides researchers, the academic community, and business with direct access to relevant quantitative facts on health, agriculture, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest.
WHO | DATA
Click the Data link in the top blue bar of this website. In the Data page, under Highlights for instance, is a popular WHO site, The Global Health Observatory that is loaded with fact sources.
- Nursing and Health Studies guide and the International Statistics tab in the Public Health guide.
- Cornell U. | Public Health | Health Statistics & Data | International Organizations & Statistics
- Weill Cornell Medicine | Data Resources
- University of Michigan | Global Statistical Sources
CDC Centre for Global Health
CDC works with the WHO to promote public health and prevent infectious disease around the world.Many links to explore..
Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
A catalog to quickly find and share information about data and actual datasets for global health and demography.
Global Index Medicus - WHO
Provides global access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.
IPUMS International
From around the world, IPUMS collects and preserves census microdata and documentation, harmonizes them. and disseminates free of charge.
NationalMaster - Global Trends, Stats, & Insights for Healthcare
Expenditures in health around the world.
NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics)
Major source of health statistics from the CDC. Links to tabulated state data.
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
The international health agency (iha) of the Americas and the Regional Office for the Americas at the WHO (t. (It is the oldest iha in the world and the first to promote health research & education.) Utilize the tabs on the upper right side of the screen to fully utilize this site.
OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
OCED helps countries achieve high-performing health systems by measuring health outcomes and using health system resources & analysis of policies that improve access, efficiency & quality of health care.
OCED iLibrary
Public Health Partners
Links with annotations to health statistics and data sets as well as resources to support data collection.
UNData
Provides access to UN statistical databases through a single entry point.
UNICEF: Monitoring & Statistics
Links to statistics globally and by country.
UNICEF Research Publications & Reports
United States Census Bureau
Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
USA.gov Data & Statistics
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to global development data
University of Michigan | Global Health Information & Resources - Data & Statistics
Another rich list of Global Health Stat & Data resources.
Statista
The database provides researchers, the academic community, and business with direct access to relevant quantitative facts on health, agriculture, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest.
WHO | DATA
Click the Data link in the top blue bar of this website. In the Data page, under Highlights for instance, is a popular WHO site, The Global Health Observatory that is loaded with fact sources.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Lists Open Access quality controlled scientific & scholarly journals from around the world.
eldis
Shares the best in development policy, practice and research. Content from over 7,500 development organisations - all available free to download.
Global Index Medicus
Provides global access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.
OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) iLibrary
OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD, IEA, NEA, OECD Development Centre, PISA, and ITF.
Global Health Edu. & Learn. Incubator at Harvard University
A new framework for global health, which captures the interconnectedness between three elements: health conditions (problem), health determinants (context), and societal responses (solutions). Click on Resources tab for publications.
PAHO (Pan American Health Organization)
Direct link to PAHO's publications related to public health issues in the Americas.
PLOS Global Public Health
Goal is to broaden the range and diversity of perspectives at the forefront of public health research and advance the health of all humankind.
PLOS One
A multi disciplinary open access journal which includes the social sciences, global health and medicine.
WHO | World Health Organization
Plethora of information about status of global health is in this site. Use the links in the top blue bar to navigate this site.
World Health Organization (WHO): Nutrition
Includes many topics on child growth assessment and surveillance, nutrition in development and crisis, country-focused nutrition policies, micronutrient malnutrition, exploitive food marketing, and more. Scroll full length of page for all content.
Lists Open Access quality controlled scientific & scholarly journals from around the world.
eldis
Shares the best in development policy, practice and research. Content from over 7,500 development organisations - all available free to download.
Global Index Medicus
Provides global access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.
OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) iLibrary
OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD, IEA, NEA, OECD Development Centre, PISA, and ITF.
Global Health Edu. & Learn. Incubator at Harvard University
A new framework for global health, which captures the interconnectedness between three elements: health conditions (problem), health determinants (context), and societal responses (solutions). Click on Resources tab for publications.
PAHO (Pan American Health Organization)
Direct link to PAHO's publications related to public health issues in the Americas.
PLOS Global Public Health
Goal is to broaden the range and diversity of perspectives at the forefront of public health research and advance the health of all humankind.
PLOS One
A multi disciplinary open access journal which includes the social sciences, global health and medicine.
WHO | World Health Organization
Plethora of information about status of global health is in this site. Use the links in the top blue bar to navigate this site.
World Health Organization (WHO): Nutrition
Includes many topics on child growth assessment and surveillance, nutrition in development and crisis, country-focused nutrition policies, micronutrient malnutrition, exploitive food marketing, and more. Scroll full length of page for all content.
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Non profit organziaiton that works with organizations and governments worldwide to improve health in developing counties. - BIREME (Regional Library of Medicine | Latin Am.
Special center of the PAHO/WHO for technical cooperation in health scientific informaiton. Located in San Paulo, Brazil, it offers several online resources for Latin Am. and the Caribbean region, including the Virtual Health Library (VHL), the Latin Am.and Caribbean Health Science Literature (LILACS), PAHO Institutional Respository (IRIS), and more. - Carter Center
The Center, partnering with Emory University, works to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering. Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. - CDC | Center for Global Health (CGH)
While it works globally to protect the US from disease threats, CGH provides much information about health issues in several world regions. Explore the menu to the left of each page to fully explore this rich website, including its Resources link. - Global Citizen
With all of these sites, look around for the search function and then articles, publications, or research, etc. - Duke Global Health Institute
The Duke Global Health Institute works to reduce health disparities worldwide through research, education and service. Formed in 2006 ... the institute brings together knowledge and resources from across the university to address the most important global health issues of our time. - Fogarty International Center (FIC)
At the National Institutes of Health (NIH) FIC facilitates global health research conducted by international and US investigators and train the next generation of scientists to address global health needs. - The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Global public/private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Since founding in 2002 is main source of finance for programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. - Global Health
Provides policy guidance and coordination on refugee health policy issues, develops U.S. policy and strategy positions related to health issues and provides leadership and coordination for bilateral programs with selected countries. - Kaiser Global Health Gateway
Online clearinghouse for the latest data and information on the U.S. role in global health. - United Nations Development Programme
Global development network helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all activities, encourages protection of human rights and empowerment of women. - OECD Health (Organization for Economic Cop-operation and Development
Helps "countries to achieve high-performing health systems by measuring health outcomes & the use of health system resources, and by analysing policies that improve access, efficiency & quality of health care".
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- Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
An online exhibit from Harvard University Libraries' Open Collections Program, it tracks several outbreaks of contagious diseases using primary documentation. Highly recommended for its historical focus.
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