Data Repositories for Research Data

Health Sciences Repositories

Beyond NIH related data there are other sources of health sciences data to be found in federal/local government repositories and other organizational repositories.

Federal Health Data Repositories

• HealthData.gov - A repository dedicated to making federal health data available and more discoverable to the public in the hopes of better health outcomes.
• CDC Data - The data portal for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• National Library of Medicine Dataset Catalog - A catalog of biomedical datasets from various repositories for users to search, discover, and retrieve datasets.
• CMS Data - A data portal for direct access to data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Health Resources & Services Administration - This portal provides maps, data, reports, and dashboards to the public about HRSA’s health care programs.
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - A data portal that provides access to patient safety data.
• National Institute of Mental Health Data Archive - A repository which makes human subjects data from across many scientific domains available.

State/Local Health Data Repositories

• Texas Health Data - The official health data portal for the state of Texas. 
• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps - A program from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, this site provides aggregated data of health statistics down to the county level for all 50 states in the U.S.

Other Health Data Repositories

• Synapse - An open source software platform that clinical and biological data scientists can use to carry out, track, and communicate their research in real time.
• Vivli - A data repository for sharing individual participant-level data from completed clinical trials.