Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions: Find Statistics

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national agency tasked with managing public health. They collect data and statistics on a variety of topics at the national, state, and local levels.

HealthData.gov is a U.S. government website dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all. Data is pulled from a variety of national agencies.

Prepared and published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.

The Office of Health Statistics helps collect and develop data used by the Department of Health (DOH) and the public. The office partners with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to administer the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration creates a behavioral health barometer for each state based on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

The Global Health Observatory, part of WHO, collects data and creates reports on a variety of topics related to global health.

The OECD offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. It is an essential tool to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.

Our World in Data is a free resource dedicated to using research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Pulling from a variety of sources, researchers create data visualizations to educate the public on a variety of topics.

Data.gov is the home of the U.S. government's open data. It is a place to search for data on almost any topic.

The Census Bureau releases collected data and data visualizations on data.census.gov.

The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news.

The Rural Health Information Hub collects, analyzes, and shares data related to public, behavioral, and mental health in rural areas of the United States.