Data Resources for Health & Medical Research

As part of your ArcGIS Online subscription, you can use ArcGIS Open Data to share your live authoritative open data. Esri-hosted ArcGIS Open Data gives you a quick way to set up public-facing websites where people can easily find and download your open data in a variety of open formats.

The Climate Change and African Political Stability program analyzes how climate change, conflict, governance, and aid intersect to impact African and international security. Researchers have produced a number of new datasets and tools to examine these issues. Managed by the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

This resource, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin, has an interactive mapping tool to look at community health by county or state.

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program has collected, analyzed and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more more that 200 surveys in over 75 countries. You must register in order to download data. Statcompiler allows you to build customized tables from hundreds of DHS surveys and indicators. STATcompiler accesses nearly all of the population and health indicators that are published in DHS final reports. You can view Country Quickstats and compare indicators between countries.

The Global Alzheimer’s Association Interactive Network (GAAIN) unites a diverse and geographically distributed network of data partners within a federated data platform designed to foster cohort discovery, collaboration and sharing. GAAIN represents the first open access, federated Alzheimer’s disease data discovery platform of its kind.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington. The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) is a data catalog created and supported by IHME. IHME provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.

Provides a searchable list of surveys and censuses conducted in low- and middle-income countries. This catalog provides rich metadata including, when available, the survey questionnaire(s), manuals and report(s), and list of related citations. It does not provide access to microdata, but when available, provides a link to external catalogs where the data can be obtained.

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) books, journal articles, papers and statistics, and the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.

OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies. OECD.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across many databases under different themes such as agriculture and fisheries, development, economic projections, education and training, energy, environment, finance, globalisation, health, national accounts, productivity, regional statistics, social and welfare, etc.

The new PAHO/WHO ‘Core Indicators 2016’ presents the latest health indicators for the countries and territories of the Americas. In this 2016 edition, with a different format, new indicators are being introduced based on the results of a review of the core indicators within the Regional Core Health Data Initiative. The new set of metrics is grouped according to the classification proposed by WHO: health status, risk factors, service coverage, and health systems. Information on 80+ core indicators from 49 countries and territories, as well as the sub-regions of the Americas, is presented.

Explore more than 80 health indicators and 350 data visualizations for 49 Countries and Territories of the Americas in an interactive platform.

Provides data on the situation of children and women around the world.

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/). Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.

The U.S. Census Bureau conducts demographic, economic, and geographic studies of other countries and strengthens statistical development around the world through technical assistance, training, and software products. For over 60 years, the Census Bureau has performed international analytical work and assisted in the collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, and use of statistics with counterpart governments in over 100 countries.

Find data on health systems, risk assessment, health indicators, and pharmaceuticals.

Most recent data on the health, nutrition, and population of regions and countries

Global Development Data: Search by country or indicator

Provides access to over 1000 indicators on priority health topics including mortality and burden of disease, the Millennium Development Goals (child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected diseases, water and sanitation), non communicable diseases and risk factors, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, equity among others.

The WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) has been incorporated into the Global Health Observatory (GHO) to provide you with more data, more tools, more analysis and more reports.