Library Guides: GIS for Public Health: A Guide: Location data

International GIS Data

Download Data by Country
from Diva.Gis
GADM
GADM provides maps and spatial data for all countries and their sub-divisions. You can browse our maps or download the data to make your own maps.
The Humanitarian Data Exchange
An open platform for sharing data across crises and organisations. Launched in July 2014, the goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis
International GIS Data: Global
Europe, Africa, Americas, Mid-East, North Africa, Far East, Central and Eastern Europe/Central Asia, South Asia and Oceana. From Penn Libraries
IPUMS-DHS Geography and GIS Boundary Files
Minnesota Population Center
IPUMS - Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space, Minnesota Population Center
IPUMS International
Geography and GIS data, Minnesota Population Center
Open Street Map
A project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world.
Planet.osm
Planet.osm is the OpenStreetMap data in one file: all the nodes, ways and relations that make up our map
StatSilk
World and country data files. StatSilk develops tools for creating dashboards incorporating user-friendly, interactive data visualizations and maps.

USGS Environmental Health GIS Data
USGS Water GIS Data
US Census Geography Program
GIS and Public Health
GeoSpatial Data Resources from the CDC
Online Public Health Maps
Cancer, Social/Behavioral, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Environment. CDC
Map Tools
Get tips to use when creating maps, comparing data, and printing or saving maps and data for reports and presentations. CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Minnesota Population Center - Data Projects Demographic data resources. All MPC data are available free over the internet. Includes international and domestic population surveys, tabular U.S. census data and GIS boundary files, 1790 - present; annual data on people in the U.S. National Health Interview Survey, 1960s - present; American Time Use Survey, 2003-present; Demographic and Health Surveys, 1980s-present; integrated data on population and the environment, 1960- present.