Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Datasets

Students and researchers should keep a close eye on the evolving data infrastructure at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at University of Washington. The Maternal Mortality data page here is an example. Many of these data-sets were constructed for large scale evaluations of public health initiatives developed with a view to the Millenium Development Goals. They are very useful resources also for development economists and do not yet seem to have been widely used in this area. They are also, for the most part, downloadable for free in a "one-click" excel format. The growing publication list of this Institute is also worth looking at carefully.