Guides and Tutorials: Global Public Health Research Guide: Home

What is this Guide for?

This guide is designed to complement the library and research activities in Global Public Health

Types of information (like peer-reviewed articles or web resources)
The Information Cycle and how news stories affect the way public health information is communicated
Creating a Literature Review
Database Searching Tips
Using online tools such as RefWorks to track, share, and organize research

Academic research and studies: How they work and why journalists should care
An overview of how studies are produced, their relevance and how they might be used.

Data USA This link opens in a new window
Visualizations of data and statistics covering education, industries, healthcare and many more topics.
Geo-Spatial Data Resources This link opens in a new window
Geo-Spatial Data Resources are organized into four topic areas; Public Health Resources, GIS Data, Social Determinants of Health Resources, and Environmental Health Data Resources.
Google's Dataset Search This link opens in a new window
Across the web, there are millions of datasets about nearly any subject that interests you. Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million datasets, giving you a single place to search for datasets and find links to where the data is.

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