Global Health Data: Global Health Data

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Global Health Data
- Access to UNC Global Research Data
- Global Health Data & Statistics Sites
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Access to UNC Global Research Data

Carolina Population Center (CPC)
CPC research includes global projects with data downloads.
Faculty with International Expertise Database
The University Center for Global Initiatives maintains this searchable database of UNC faculty with international research experience. Contact faculty working in your area to find out if they have datasets that can be used by students.

Global Health Data & Statistics Sites

The resources below are meant to broadly cover global health topics. For resources that are more specific, you may access the resources by topic or resources by region pages.

Global Cancer Observatory (GCO); formerly CANCERMondial
Presents global cancer statistics with a focus on the visualization of cancer indicators to illustrate the changing scale, epidemiological profile, and impact of the disease worldwide. Uses data from: IARC’s Section of Cancer Surveillance (CSU), including GLOBOCAN; Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (CI5); International Incidence of Childhood Cancer (IICC); and Cancer Survival in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Central America (SurvCan).

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Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
The GHDx is a data catalog listing information about microdata, aggregated data, and research results with a focus on health-related and demographic datasets.
Google Dataset Search
Around 25 million datasets provided by government, public, and private groups and compiled by Google.
INDEPTH Data Repository
The data collected by the INDEPTH Network members constitute a valuable resource of population and health data for LMIC countries. This repository aims to make well documented anonymized longitudinal microdata from these Centers available to data users.
International Health Care System Profiles
Overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

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Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization and governance, health care quality and coordination, disparities, efficiency and integration, use of information technology and evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations. In addition, the site provides summary data on a number of key health system characteristics and performance indicators, including overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, patient safety, care coordination, chronic care management, disease prevention, capacity for quality improvement, and public views.
KFF U.S. Global Health Budget Breakdown
A thorough breakdown of the FY 2021 U.S. global health funding, including emergency assistance.
KFF U.S. Global Health Legislation Tracker
This tracker provides a listing of global health-related legislation being considered by the 117th Congress (Jan. 3, 2021 – Jan. 3, 2023). Currently, there are more than 60 pieces of legislation related to global health. They address topics ranging from global health security to climate change to reproductive health.
MEASURE Demographic and Health Surveys
National and sub-national data on family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/AIDS/STIs, infectious diseases, reproductive health and nutrition. Integrated DHS is a web based tool designed to facilitate analysis of DHS data across time and space.
UNData
A single entry point to United Nations statistical databases.
UNICEF Customized Statistical Tables
The statistical tool includes economic and social data from 195 countries and territories, with particular reference to children’s well-being. Users can choose their countries and indicators to build tables on the fly, or download the numbers into an Excel spreadsheet. These statistics are derived from UNICEF’s flagship publication, "The State of the World’s Children".
UN International Human Development Indicators
Data utilized in the preparation of the Human Development Index (HDI).
UN Sustainable Development Goals Data
SDG Global Database provides access to data on more than 210 SDG indicators for countries across the globe by indicator, country, region, or time period.
WHO Global Health Observatory
"The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The GHO presents data from all WHO programmes and provides links to supporting information." [provider description]
WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform
Aims to provide a single searchable database of information about ongoing and completed clinical trials registered around the world in clinical trial registries.
World Bank Open Data
Download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.