Important Nursing Schools & Research Centers

Abt Associates
Major research center performing research and evaluation, strategy, planning, and policy, consulting, implementation, and technical assistance on a wide range of social, health, economic, and other po...   [more]
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    Abt Associates reports (fulltext)

Center for Evidence-based Practice
UPHS' Center for evidence-based Practice purpose is to provide throughout the health system, recomendations based on scientific methodology, on clinical practices and policies....   [more]
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Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
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Institute for Women's Policy Research
"IWPR is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on issues of critical importance to women and their families."...   [more]
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International Food & Nutrition Council
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MDRC
Also Known as: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
Social policy research organization focusing on improving the well-being of low-income people, especially educational reform, children and family, including afterschool care and child care, workers an...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    MDRC Publications (many in fulltext PDF)

Measure DHS
Also Known as: Demographic and Health Surveys
USAID-funded program to collect and analyze demographic and health data for regional and national family planning and public health programs. Includes STATcompiler and HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Datab...   [more]
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Also Known as: News Interest Index, Pew Global Attitudes Project
Research center polling public attentiveness to major political and public policy issues and to the media. Includes cross-national Pew Global Attitudes Project. News Interest Index polls Americans on ...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Pew Center survey data sets (free downloading)
    News Interest Index -- most closely watched news stories of the decade
    Pew Global Attitudes Project

Rand Corporation - Health and Health Care
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. Seve...   [more]
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Research Resources for Evidence Based Nursing (McGill University)
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Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
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Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research & Health Care
Dedicated to the moral issues of research and medical treatment of African Americans and other underserved people....   [more]
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