Public Health Graduate Student Resources

A comprehensive listing of data resources and tools from the National Library of Medicine.

Healthy People 2020 provides a comprehensive set of 10-year, national goals and objectives for improving the health of all Americans. Healthy People 2020 contains 42 topic areas with more than 1,200 objectives. A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators (LHIs), have been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.

HCUP tools and software help health services researchers and decision makers access the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States.

The profiles provide detailed demographic, language fluency (where relevant), education, economic, insurance coverage and health status information, as well as full census reports. Includes profiles for Black/African-American Health, American Indian/Alaska Native Health, Asian-American Health, Hispanic/Latino Health, and Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Health.

Data pertaining to issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations including housing, health, education, and income.

The NIH includes 27 institutes and centers. Each institute/center has a website that can be explored to find related data/statistics.

The National Vital Statistics System is the oldest and most successful example of inter-governmental data sharing in Public Health and the shared relationships, standards, and procedures form the mechanism by which NCHS collects and disseminates the Nation’s official vital statistics. These data are provided through contracts between NCHS and vital registration systems operated in the various jurisdictions legally responsible for the registration of vital events – births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths.

Maps > Thematic maps
Reference Shelf leads to “Demographic Profiles” and “Demographic Trends in the 20th Century”

From the Department of Homeland Security, data collected to evaluate social, economic, environmental and demographic impact of immigration laws.