Country Expert - COVID 19 Response
Country background information
- CIA World FactbookThe World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowA continually-updated collection of language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works published by Oxford University Press. All titles in the collection are cross-searchable; individual titles may be searched separately as well.
Search for COVID response information
- World News Digest This link opens in a new windowWorld News Digest is a go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news from 1940-present. In addition to news articles, WND aggregates social media feeds and includes editorial cartoons, historical documents infographics and statistics. Hundreds of news sources, governments, and organizations—including ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, NPR, and the parliaments of Canada and Australia—rely on World News Digest for a broader view of the issues that matter today.
- Our World Data COVID response datasetThis visualization shows a "strictness" index over time for a government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic based on 17 policy indicators spanning containment and closure policies (such as such as school closures and restrictions in movement); economic policies; and health system policies (such as testing regimes). This tool will be helpful to determine which policies were in place in a given country at a certain date.
- IMF COVID Policy TrackerInternational Monetary Fund database, searchable by country, describing each country's economic response to COVID. Often includes health-policy information.
- WHO Global COVID-19 literature databaseA link to the WHO's global literature database on COVID-19. Search for open source articles.
- Think Tank SearchFrom Harvard's Kennedy School of Government library, this link is a custom Google search + list of hundreds of US and international think tanks affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity.
Search in newspapers
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowCovers a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information, most available in full text. Includes newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.
- Newspaper Source This link opens in a new windowProvides cover-to-cover full-text for more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers, selective full-text for more than 330 regional U.S. newspapers, and full-text television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
- World NewspapersThis website conglomerates English-language world newspapers, magazines and news sites. It is searchable by country. This link points to African sources, specifically.
Country Expert - How does healthcare work?
- WHO country briefsOnline reference providing country-specific health and economic data. Great for general country healthcare metrics.
- Population Reference BureauPRB collects health, population, and environmental data around the world. An excellent way to find basic health statistics on any country or region of the world.
- International Health Policy Center – Commonwealth FundA site mainly focused on US healthcare, but with an International Health Policy sub-page at this link, that provides information about international healthcare policy. Includes country profiles, information about health system features and selected statistics.
- European Observatory on Health Systems and PoliciesA website that describes the functioning of health systems in countries as well as reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development.
- Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and PoliciesA website that contains briefs on the healthcare systems in Asia-Pacific nations.
- Measure DHSA website that compiles "Demographic and Health Surveys" from around the world, and allows you to search for health data by country. Especially useful for non-EU countries.
- IHME Country ProfilesHealth metric data for all world countries. Choose your country from the drop down to get information on life expectancy, under-5 mortality, predominate cause of death and pre-mature death, major health-impacting risk factors, etc/
Country Expert - Historical Responses to Healthcare Crisis
- World News Digest This link opens in a new windowWorld News Digest is a go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news from 1940-present. In addition to news articles, WND aggregates social media feeds and includes editorial cartoons, historical documents infographics and statistics. Hundreds of news sources, governments, and organizations—including ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, NPR, and the parliaments of Canada and Australia—rely on World News Digest for a broader view of the issues that matter today.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text and abstracts to over 2,500 journals published by Elsevier and its affiliates. ScienceDirect includes extensive coverage in science, engineering and medicine, plus many core journals in business, social sciences and humanities.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowAn online database of citations to biomedical and other life science literature, created by the US National Library of Medicine. Its largest component is the MEDLINE bibliographical database. PubMed Central is a digital archive of literature drawn from biomedical and life science journals and linked to the PubMed database.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowCovers a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information, most available in full text. Includes newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowComprehensive bibliography for material on the history of the world from 1450 to the present. It covers all countries and regions, excluding the United States and Canada (for those countries, see America: History and Life).
- Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowGlobal Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full- text format.
Country Expert - Sources for Security and COVID assignment
- World News Digest This link opens in a new windowWorld News Digest is a go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news from 1940-present. In addition to news articles, WND aggregates social media feeds and includes editorial cartoons, historical documents infographics and statistics. Hundreds of news sources, governments, and organizations—including ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, NPR, and the parliaments of Canada and Australia—rely on World News Digest for a broader view of the issues that matter today.
- Think Tank SearchFrom Harvard's Kennedy School of Government library, this link is a custom Google search + list of hundreds of US and international think tanks affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity.
- IMF COVID Policy TrackerInternational Monetary Fund database, searchable by country, describing each country's economic response to COVID. Often includes health-policy information.
- COVID-19 Law LabA joint project of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. This initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic.
- The Lancet - Global COVID resource centreThis resource brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across The Lancet journals as it is published.
- UN Stats COVID-19 reportUN report compiling information on COVID-19's impact on a variety of issues.
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlWeekly COVID-19 data for the 23 EU/EEA countries.
- Pan American Health OrganizationWeekly COVID-19 situation reports for North, Central and South American countries.