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Research Tools

Research Tools help connect you to a range of online resources in health policy. While this is not a comprehensive collection of resources, these links should help you get started in your research.

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Government Organizations

A broad range of federal offices play a role in health policy, through research, analysis, reporting, and working directly with policymakers.  Several of these offices are presented here.

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SmartLinks Search

Provides “pre-queried” searches on health policy topics in several different internet search engines.

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Data Sources

Compilation of websites that offer access to raw datasets and statistics on health policy topics. Several of these datasets can be downloaded and analyzed for your own research project.

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Search the Literature

These websites provide allow you to search the peer-reviewed and policy literature for publications on health policy.

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Global Health Organizations

Links to U.S.-based and international organizations that work on international health issues.