Cancer
Cardiovascular
Demographic Resources
Diabetes
Environmental
Genetic & Molecular
HIV & Infectious Disease
Learning Resources
Occupational
State Public Health Sites
Vital Statistics

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 
The world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984.

Cancer Control Planet
Find information by cancer control topic – linked to State Cancer Profiles (CDC, NCI).

Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs 
Maps, text, tables and figures showing the geographic patterns of cancer death rates throughout the United States from 1950 to 1994 for about 40 cancers.

Cancer Statistics (NCI) 
Information from the National Cancer Institute on cancer statistics. Includes reports of cancer rates and trends, a statistics glossary, and data tools.

CDC Cancer Burden
Contains data on lung cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer; includes the estimated number of new cancer cases and cancer deaths, and the age-adjusted mortality rates for cancer deaths by race for each state; fact sheets were updated in June 2004.

Cancer Mondial
Provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held by the Descriptive Epidemiology Group (DEP) of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Non-Federal Website.

Cancer Prevention and Control (CDC)
Graphs and tables based on the 2002 Incidence and Mortality report that combines data from the CDC and NCI.

Cancer Query System (NCI) 
Access to these statistical databases: SEER Incidence Statistics, US Mortality Statistics, SEER Survival Statistics, Cancer Prevalence Database, Probability of Developing or Dying from Cancer, and Delay-Adjusted SEER Incidence Rates.

Cancer Statistics Review
Select pages throughout the CSR by specifying Statistic Type, Cancer Site, and Race/Ethnicity. Click Search. From a list of pages that meet your criteria, you will be able to view individual pages or merge pages into one custom-built PDF.

Fast Stats (NCI)
Statistics available for 19 individual and combined cancer sites organized by incidence, mortality, survival & stage, prevalence, and lifetime risk.

IARC TP53 Mutation Database
Compiles all TP53 gene mutations identified in human cancers and cell lines that have been reported in the peer-reviewed literature since 1989. Non-Federal Website.

State Cancer Profiles 
System of interactive maps and graphs enabling the investigation of cancer trends at the national, state, and county level.

Cardiovascular
Interactive Tools and Resources (NHLBI)
Applications concerning high blood pressure and asthma for Palm OS and PocketPC Devices, mortality maps, health assessment tools, and downloadable slide sets.

Demographic Resources
U.S. Census Bureau
Find quick answers to demographic questions such as "What is the U.S. population?" "What is the poverty threshold?" "Which is America's largest minority group?" Create a “My Stuff” account for searching and email alerts and request custom (subject and geographic) tabulations.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)
Diabetes in children, in America and in these populations: African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Hispanics/Latinos, and the Pima Indians

Environmental
Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry(ATSDR)
Provides access to the following datasets: (1) HazDat Database: Information about waste sites where ATSDR has been active, including a list of contaminants, and links to site documents, (2) Maps of Hazardous Waste Sites: Geographic display showing hazardous waste sites in context with environmental hazards, roads, political boundaries, schools, landmarks, and 2000 U.S. census tracts, blockgroups, and blocks, (3) Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES): State-based surveillance system to describe the public health consequences associated with accidental releases of hazardous substances, and (4) National Exposure Registry: Listing of persons exposed to certain hazardous substances to help scientists understand how long-term exposure these substances may affect human health.

NIEHS – National Toxicology Program
Includes data from more than 500 two-year, two species, toxicology and carcinogenesis studies collected by the NTP and its predecessor, the National Cancer Institute's Carcinogenesis Testing Program, are stored in a database at NIEHS. Results from toxicity studies from shorter duration tests and from genetic toxicity studies, which includes both in vitro and in vivo tests

Genetic & Molecular
Human Genome Epidemiology Network (HuGENet)
Contains the HuGE Published Literature Database, a online knowledge base of population-based, epidemiologic studies of human genes published in journals included in PubMed; and the Genotype Prevalence Database, which includes population-based genotype frequency data from selected studies that is stratified by geographic area, and in some instances, race and gender

HIV & Infectious Disease
EuroHIV
European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports for Europe (PDF)

ISID - Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases
ProMed is an electronic outbreak reporting system that monitors infectious diseases globally. ProMED-Mail serves as a central site for news, updates, and discussions of outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging diseases that affect human health.

UNAIDS/WHO Global HIV/AIDS Online Database
The ability Browse, view, query, search the contents of the database, interactive mapping provides a means to examine geographic areas of interest and create maps of selected data, and provides access to the public domain to static maps on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

NCID Office of Surveillance
The ability to query MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Tables, and access the Surveillance Systems Monitoring Infectious Diseases, which contains information for populations within the United States

Learning Resources
CDC – Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology (EXCITE)
EXCITE is a collection of teaching materials developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to introduce students to public health and epidemiology

BMJ Topic Collections
Archive of Theme Issues which includes a section on Statistics and Research Methods. Also includes a Book Collection, which contains the following titles: (1) Statistics at Square One, (2) Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, and (3) How to read a paper: the basics of evidence-based medicine.

Occupational
DCEG – Datasets
PC based system which provides users with an interactive method for assigning standardized industry and occupation codes to related job description titles from specific studies

OSHA - Occupational Epidemiology Surveillance
Collection of resources that includes epidemiologic surveillance resources, Federal and State level datasets, and a bibliography of General, Occupational, and Environmental epidemiology methods

CDC – National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
NHIS is the principal source of information on the health of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States and is one of the major data collection programs of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

CDC – NHANES
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Files are separated to reduce download time, and stats software is needed to work with the data

State Health Agencies
FDA State Health Agencies Page
Links to U.S. state health agencies.

Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
Statistics related to vital events--births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths.