Public Health: Health Policy Resources

Westlaw

Westlaw Campus Research is a comprehensive collection of primary legal resources including federal and state statutes, codes, regulations, and case law materials, as well as international materials including the European Union. Westlaw Campus Research also provides access to thousands of analytical resources including American Jurisprudence, American Law Reports, and more than 800 law reviews and journals.

ProQuest Congressional

Coverage of U.S. Congress; hearings, prints, reports, bills, Congressional Record, CRS Reports, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations

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Sources for research on policy analysis, public heath law and ethics, health economics, health care finance, public health and health care system management with the aim of improving health care quality and access.

Government Sources

Selected government resources: state, federal and international

• Georgia Department of Health

• Athens Wellbeing Project

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

• Centers for Disease Control

• National Institutes of Health

• ProQuest Congressional 

• Science.gov

• USAID

• U.S. Congress

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Global Affairs 

• World Health Organization (WHO)

• WHO Global Index Medicus

  WHO site providing worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries

Non-Government Organizations (NGOs)

• AcademyHealth

  Advancing Research, Policy and Practice

• American College of Physicians (ACP)

  Advocacy - Where We Stand

• Commonwealth Fund

• Global Health Council

• National Academy for State Health Policy

• National Conference of State Legislatures (State Public Health Legislation Database)

• National Health Policy Forum

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Think Tanks

• American Enterprise Institute (US)

• Brookings Institute (US)

• Cato Institute (US)

• Council on Foreign Relations (US)

• Fraser Institute (CANADA)

• Harvard Department of Health Policy and Management (US)

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Pubic Health Research Centers (US)

• Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy (US)

• Rand Health Publications 

• Urban Institute (US)

• 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index (GGTTTI) - UPENN

• Think Tank Search - Harvard

  A Google custom search of more than 480 think tanks and research centers

Other Sources for Health Policy

• Harvard Catalyst Policy Atlas

Free database of health policy resources designed to facilitate policy research by making data accessible and easily searchable. Users can explore more than 100 health policy resources on topics ranging from health laws and bills, to health disparities, to social and environmental determinants of health.