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Population Health

Resources for population health research.

CTSA - Community Engagement

CTSA Community Engagement Resource Guide

A community-engaged research approach can enable researchers and community partners to conduct research to improve health. 

  • Find national, state, and regional health data
  • Understand health status and issues in Massachusetts communities
  • Learn more about community-engaged research
  • Develop proposals for future work
  • Information on community-engaged research training
  • Tips to understanding statistics
  • Examples of community programs with evidence that they work
  • Research ethics 

Resources for Researchers

Research Resources from the Researcher Tools, Services and Support Resource Guide 

  • Research Resources
  • Clinical Population Health Research (CPHR)
  • Statistics Resources

Open Data & Data Sharing

Open and Publicly Available Data on the Research Data Management Resources Guide

  • Open Data Resources
  • Data Journals
  • Registries and Lists
  • Publicly Available Health and Social Science Data Collections
  • Other Sources for Data

Freely Available Data: MA, US, and Worldwide

International Data

United States Data

Massachusetts Data