Created by the Together Foundation and UN-HABITAT, this database of best practices in community improvement is available in English, French and Spanish. Users can search by main topic (18 categories such as Poverty Eradication or Land Use Management – each topic is divided into sub-topics for precision); by ecosystem (8 categories such as Coastal or Mountain); by region (choice of each continent); by scale (8 categories ranging from village to global scale); or by a combination of factors. Results include a both a short summary and a more lengthy narrative of the program, and contact information for those who managed the implementation.

This specialized center of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and focuses mainly on Latin American countries. Users can search a collection of databases of scientific literature; select from a list of health topics for a pre-formatted search; or use the structured vocabulary list developed from a combination of MeSH terms and a specialized public health terminology.

Maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and arranged in both alphabetical and topic directories, this database contains reports, recommendations, web links, and journal articles on many public health concerns. Additionally, users can search for publicly available data sets about many of the health topics. This data is available to download into plain text, spreadsheets, or HTML.

This new database includes title and phrase searching, and relevancy ranking, but does not include the topic directory or a complete list of documents.

This database contains over 84,000 citations and is maintained by the health-related agencies of the US Federal Government. The database contains information on twelve health topics: AIDS, Alzheimers. Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Alternative Medicine, Communication Disorders, Diabetes, Digestive Diseases, Kidney and Urologic Diseases, Maternal and Child Health, Medical Genetics and Rare Disorders, Oral Health and Weight Control. Coverage begins as far back as 1978 for some topics, and as recently as 1997 for others.

These databases are maintained by the EPPI-Centre at the University of London. The EPPI-Centre focuses on organizing and reviewing research on evidence-based interventions. Their work has been divided into 3 specific databases: