Global Health: Home
About This Guide
The Global Health guide provides resources and services to support the global health research of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and students working on campus and in the field. The guide also addresses the research needs of non-UNC-Chapel Hill users with links to free or low-cost resources.
Key Databases
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EmbaseHighly versatile, multipurpose and up-to-date biomedical database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day. Supports drug discovery & development, pharmacovigilance, medical device development and post-market surveillance, and evidence-based medicine.
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Global HealthScholarly research on global public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition and many others.
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Google ScholarEnables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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PubMedDatabase of biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine covering journal articles about medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, biology and public health from 1950 to the present; multiple mobile apps available, provides access to MEDLINE, etc. Includes links to full text of UNC-CH's electronic journal subscriptions.
Developing Country / Low-Middle Income Searches
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Developing / Low-Middle Income Countries Searches (2019 update, MS Word format)Searches formatted for PubMed, Embase, or Scopus. MS Word document.
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Developing / Low-Middle Income Countries Searches (2019 update, Rich Text Format)Searches formatted for PubMed, Embase, or Scopus. RTF document.