ACHIEVE - Advancing Community Health and Individual leadership through a noVel Educational program

Agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) whose mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.

Agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) whose mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.

Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.

More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use.

Independent philanthropic organization focused on major health care issues facing the nation.

From the UN. Has data on key metrics of development.

NCHS, the Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency, is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization.
PAHO is an international public health agency working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.

Provides data on US and international population trends and their implications. PRB has five Web sites that provide data on a range of topics within the fields of population, health, and nutrition.

RAND is a nonprofit institute that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. RAND Health is the nation's largest private health care research organization.

Reports and other publications on nutrition, violence, and HIV/AIDS-- to name but a few-- have heightened America's awareness of important public health issues and generated major public health initiatives.

Founded in 1968 to understand the problems facing America’s cities and assess the programs of the War on Poverty, the Urban Institute brings decades of objective analysis and expertise to policy debates — in city halls and state houses, Congress and the White House, and emerging democracies around the world. Today, the Urban Institute’s research portfolio ranges from the social safety net to health and tax policies; the well-being of families and neighborhoods; and trends in work, earnings, and wealth building.

WHO is defined by its Constitution as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work.

Population projections from the United Nations Population Division.