• CDC data source and resources, including the 2011 US Health Disparities and Inequalities Report

• The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project at the Harvard School of Public Health is a compilation of area based socioeconomic measures and public health surveillance data designed for US health departments to monitor and address socioeconomic inequalities in health
• Income distribution, wealth, poverty, property values and related data could be found at the Census Bureau website and an interactive NYTimes mapping of the 2010 US Census.  
• The County Health Rankings rank the health of nearly every county in the US and show that much of what affects health occurs outside of the doctors' office. The data are compiled and rankings produced by the University of Wisconsin and the RWJF.  Healthier countries tend to have lower rates of smoking, physical inactivity, teen births, violent crime, illiteracy and unemployment.  According to the model, health behaviors, socioeconomic factors and physical environment account for 80% of health outcomes.  
• The 2012 Commonwealth Fund Scorecard on Local Health System Performance tracks 43 indicators spanning four dimensions of health system performance: access, prevention and treatment, costs and potentially avoidable hospital use, and health outcomes. The Local Scorecard compares all 306 local health care areas, known as hospital referral regions in the US highlighting that access, quality, cost, and health outcomes all vary significantly from one local community to another.
• The 2009-2010 Allegheny County Health Survey is a county-wide, population-based telephone survey modeled after the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)2 conducted in every state under the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  The results of this survey point to the urgent need for efforts to address health disparities in our region. 
• The SGIM compiles a Research Dataset Compendium designed to assist investigators conducting research on existing datasets, with a particular emphasis on health services research, clinical epidemiology, and research on medical education  
• The London Health Observatory website provides data/indicators of health inequalities for many parts of England. The Marmot Indicators are: life expectancy at birth; children reaching a good level of development at age five; young people not in employment, education or training (NEET); and, percentage of people in households receiving means tested benefits. In addition there is an index showing the level of social inequalities within each local authority area for some of the indicators, including life expectancy at birth – the higher the value of the index the greater the inequality.
• A group of primary care providers in Canada are looking into tools to assess and treat patients who live in poverty.  Specifically, they are asking how clinicians can factor poverty into clinical decision-making like they would other risk factors? 
• Public transit investment shapes the built environment, which in turn impacts health outcomes and health costs.  Several communities are assessing the health impacts of transportation investment and the health costs of physical inactivity, obesity, exposure to air pollution, and traffic crashes (A report for the APHA by Urban Design 4 Health, 2010). The American Public Transportation Association compiles a number of data sources and information on public transportation at the local, state and national levels.  
• Food prices and how consumers respond to price variation over time, across geographic markets, and in response to taxes and subsidies contribute to obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.  How are food price responsiveness, food preferences, nutrition knowledge and access to stores and restaurants affecting consumers' food purchasing decisions in your community? The USDA's Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database contains prices for 54 food groups based on only UPC-coded food purchases for a number of metropolitan markets.
• Where do we learn whom we should perceive negatively?
  
• Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/