Health Journalism Data

Discover the power of data in health care journalism with our curated archive of valuable statistics and trends.


Data Dive

    • Infectious Diseases

    3 new vaccination reports offer well of useful resources for journalists

    Several recent publications provide journalists with key data and context for reporting on vaccination and infectious diseases for local, national…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Antibiotic pipeline

    Developing new drugs is time-consuming and expensive. Only one out of five drugs to treat infectious diseases make it past…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Antibiotic resistance

    For more localized data on antibiotic resistance in your community, check out ResistanceOpen. It is an online platform developed by…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Antimicrobial resistance

    One of the only national estimate of antibiotic use in the U.S. is connected to food animal production. Beginning in…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Climate change

    The American Public Health Association, a Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit that aims to improve the health of the public and achieve…

    • Infectious Diseases

    COVID-19

    SARS-CoV-2 Variant Classifications and Definitions. The CDC has updated its list of coronavirus variants that the agency is watching, including…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Emergency health preparedness

    Resolve to Save Lives, a nonprofit led by Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Food safety

    In December 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced that it had updated its food surveillance data page,…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Group B Strep trends during pregnancy in the U.S. after updated screening recommendations

    Group B Streptococcus is a bacterial infection that can be particularly prevalent during pregnancy. Although it often does not have…

    • Infectious Diseases

    History

    First modern infectious disease map: A father of epidemiology is John Snow – a London-based physician who figured out how cholera…

    • Infectious Diseases

    HIV, AIDS, viral hepatitus, STDs, TB

    The National Council for Home Safety and Security, a trade association representing home alarm companies, has created a research division…

    • Infectious Diseases

    HPV Vaccination Coverage in U.S. Youth

    The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics published a data brief in February 2024 that provides data on HPV vaccination…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Immunization Coverage among U.S. Kindergarteners 2023-2024

    Vaccination rates based on CDC-recommended immunizations have historically been very high in the U.S., but they took a hit during…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Influenza

    Influenza is tracked through the extensive and granular Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report (FluView). For emerging viruses, the CDC will…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Malaria

    To find global health data and statistics on malaria, one of the world’s oldest and most prevalent disease, look at…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Mapping global disease

    A good way to visualize global disease hot zones is to look at them, as they are unfolding on a…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Mosquito illnesses

    Reported illnesses from mosquito, tick, and flea bites have more than tripled in the U.S., with more than 640,000 cases…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Plasmodium parasite

    Nearly half of the world’s population remains at risk for malaria with 216 million reported cases in 2016 and over…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Sources for the United States

    Any time there is an outbreak of an infectious disease, the public generally wants to know how common it is…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Vaccines and immunizations

    The most complete record of national and states rates of immunization coverage for each vaccine are in the National Immunization Surveys.…

    • Infectious Diseases

    Vector-borne diseases

    Diseases spread by mosquitos, ticks and other insect vectors are on the rise in the U.S. as the planet continues…

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