Global Health Observatory – The One-Stop Shop For Health Data

A researcher wanting to find out which countries have the highest rates of tuberculosis can find it hard to pin down the latest information or decipher it from hundreds of columns of numbers often presented in a format that can overwhelm even the most passionate data analyst.

Improvements are under way at WHO’s online Global Health Observatory (GHO) making health data easier to find and use for specialists such as statisticians, epidemiologists, economists and public health researchers as well as anyone with an interest in global health.

The GHO is the “one-stop shop” for the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of up-to-date health data. It provides free public access through a single internet page to a vast reservoir of data and analyses on the situation and trends for global health priorities, integrating around 1000 health indicators.