Public Health Research Guide: Websites

Founded by former US President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter, this organization has a commitment to global public health.

Monthly reports from the CDC

"The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) is a collection of evidence-based findings of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF). It is a resource to help you select interventions to improve health and prevent disease in your state, community, community organization, business, healthcare organization, or school."

"For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare and Medicaid data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians."

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"A leader in health policy analysis, health journalism and communication, the Kaiser Family Foundation is dedicated to filling the need for trusted, independent information on the major health issues facing our nation and its people."

"The National Academy for State Health Policy is a nonpartisan forum of policymakers throughout state governments, learning, leading and implementing innovative solutions to health policy challenges."

NICHQ works "with states, communities, public health agencies, hospitals and families to improve children’s health."

"The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities."

"The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health."

Experts in primary care and prevention systematically review the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services.

"The Urban Institute is the trusted source for unbiased, authoritative insights that inform consequential choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States. We are a nonprofit research organization that believes decisions shaped by facts, rather than ideology, have the power to improve public policy and practice, strengthen communities, and transform people’s lives for the better."

"The Office of Public Health Improvement is dedicated to working with public health agencies and other organizations to help them implement best practices in quality improvement (QI) and translate current QI research into practice through training, technical assistance, and project consultation and management."