Health Sciences: Data and Statistics

This guide provides resources, services, and tools of interest to VT researchers investigating health topics and initiatives, including across disciplines and VT Beyond Boundaries' areas: 'Integrated Health and Wellness,' and 'The Adaptive Brain.'

Health Data and Statistics

Try out the sources below to find health statistics and datasets. If you don't find what you're looking for, contact a librarian for further suggestions (see our names and emails in the 'Librarians for Health Research' box on this page).

Health Data Tools and Statistics
From Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries. Links to sources for: Health Data News, County and Local Health Data, State Health Data, Individual State Data, National Health Data, Global Health Data, Statistical Reports, Demographic Data, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Training and Education, Health Information Technology and Standards, and Tools for Data Collection and Planning
DataMed
DataMed is a prototype biomedical data search engine. Its goal is to discover datasets across data repositories or data aggregators. In the future it will allow searching outside these boundaries. DataMed supports the NIH-endorsed FAIR principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability of datasets with current functionality assisting in finding datasets and providing access information about them.

ICPSR: InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based organization providing access to the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. The archive of data sets includes a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law.

Data.gov
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data.
Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
re3data.org
Registry of Research Data Repositories - Search or browse for a repository in your subject of interest. For example, browse by subject to view repositories for data related to "Public Health, Health Services, Social Medicine."

Librarian for Health Research

Health Sciences Librarians

Kiri DeBose, Director, Health Sciences Libraries -- health specialization: Head, Veterinary Medicine (VetMed) Library, and has administrative oversight of the VTCSOM Library & Learning Commons and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and Health Sciences & Technology Library. Also serves as the liaison to Animal Sciences; primary subject expertise in veterinary medicine, and animal sciences, secondary in environment and human medicine
Tim Mey, Head, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) Library -- Liaison to School of Medicine
Roberto Silva, Head, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and Health Sciences & Technology (FBRI HS&T) Library, Liaison to Translational Biology, Medicine & Health
Ginny Pannabecker, Assistant Dean and Director of Research, Collaboration and Engagement -- specialization: health sciences and life sciences expertise

Collaborative Librarians w/Health Sciences areas

Anne Brown, Science Informatics Consultant & Health Analytics Coordinator
Jackson Hoch, Evidence Synthesis Resident Librarian -- health specialization: Liaison to Human Nutrition Foods & Exercise
Inga Haugen, Agriculture, Life Sciences, and Scholarly Communication Librarian -- health specialization: plants, soils, Extension, ag econ, ag tech, entomology, food science, and biological systems engineering.
Amanda MacDonald, Undergraduate Research Services Librarian -- health specialization: Human Development
Rachel Miles, Research Impact Librarian -- health specialization: Neuroscience, Psychology

Whole Health and One Health are transdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary endeavors. Identify and Contact additional VT Librarians who specialize in and support researchers in delving into areas such as politics and policy, natural resources and the environment, social sciences, the arts, and more.

Last Updated: Nov 19, 2024 2:50 PM
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Subjects: Health and medicine