Global Health: Start Here

University of Michigan compilation of global, regional, and national data sets that contain international statistics information.

Free or low-fee access to full-text peer-reviewed literature and indexes about specific countries. Compiled by the international Development Research Centre.

Updates from the World Health Organization on the latest news, feature stories, fact sheets, disease outbreak updates, and public health emergency information.

Best practices across multinational, multicultural, or multiregional survey design. Compiled by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

The series is designed to enable a crossnational comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. A variety of questions on religion and morality were included. Data is currently available at ICPSR for 1981-1984, 1990-1993, 1995-1997, and 1999-2004.

Powered by data in the WHO’s Global Health Observatory (GHO), the portal presents visualizations on 22 health and health-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals from all member countries, covering a number of topics including poverty, health and well-being, malnutrition, sanitation, clean energy, sustainable urban development, and more.

The Lancet articles, reports, podcasts and other information focusing on issues and trends in global health.

Consult the State Department's site for country specific information, travel alerts, and travel warnings

Check with your advisor about IRB permission if you will be doing faculty-sponsored research. If research involves human subjects, apply for permission from the appropriate IRB at least 8 weeks before departure.

Instructions to use a VPN to access campus resources.