Basic
Click on 'UNDP around the world' to choose a specific country. Look in the 'About' tab for specific references to current challenges in the country.
Access global development data by country
Health
Brief fact sheets of basic population, health information, and mortality statistics for WHO member countries.
Overview of findings from the Global Burden of Disease survey by country.
Index of food security issues related to affordability, availability, and quality across 113 countries
This online collection from Harvard offers important historical perspectives on the science and public policy of epidemiology today and contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of diseases.
Digital Collections from the Wellcome Library in London, one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history. Included are collections relating to asylums, food, sex, genetics, public health and war.
The National Library of Medicine's free online archive of selected book, serial and film resources.
Collection of materials on public health efforts to prevent, control and eradicate global disease. Oral histories, photographs, and documents pertaining to smallpox, malaria, and guinea worm.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
A collection of Works Progress Administration posters, of which many are related to public health.