Decision Support Tools
Lee County Substance Use Monitoring System
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use monitoring work, this dashboard helps visualize the landscape of substance use in Lee County by supporting stakeholders in designing data-driven interventions to improve community health and safety—especially by reducing opioid overdoses and related harms. This system includes in-depth insights, a data map of substance use retailers…
Systems to Prevent Underage Drinking in Council Bluffs, Sioux City, and Waterloo
Systems to Prevent Underage Drinking in Council Bluffs, Sioux City, and Waterloo As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, these dashboards help visualize the landscape of alcohol retailers in Iowa communities and support local coalitions in designing data-driven interventions to improve community health and safety-especially by reducing underage drinking. Explore the dashboards:…
Jackson, Jones, and Dubuque County Substance Use Monitoring System
Jackson, Jones, and Dubuque County Substance Use Monitoring System Explore the Dashboard As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use monitoring work, this dashboard helps visualize the landscape of substance use in Jackson, Jones, and Dubuque by supporting stakeholders in designing data-driven interventions to improve community health and safety.
Iowa Alcohol Insights Platform
The Iowa Alcohol Insights Platform contains information about alcohol establishments, school locations, and alcohol-related car crashes in Iowa. Iowa communities can use this map to see if they have alcohol risk factors such as clusters of establishments or OWI car crashes. Community leaders and action groups can also assess the proximity of alcohol establishments to…
Iowa Treatment Episode Data 2000-21
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, this dashboard enables rich exploratory and descriptive analysis of treatment episode data in Iowa. The data pages allow users to drill down to a single region and explore demographic patterns, uncover emerging risk profiles, and understand trends in treatment episode admissions in their area. Dashboard…
Recovery Ready Community Index Dashboard
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Substance Use Recovery work, the Recovery Ready Community Index (RRCI) Dashboard measures recovery resources across Iowa communities. This interactive tool helps identify where support for substance use recovery is strongest and guides efforts to build recovery-friendly environments.
Barton County’s Substance Use Monitoring System
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use monitoring work, this dashboard helps visualize the landscape of substance use in Barton County, Kansas by supporting stakeholders in designing data-driven interventions to improve community health and safety.
Iowa’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) Platform
The Public Science Collaborative conducted background research, prototyping, user listening sessions, and system design to prepare Iowa’s Department of Health and Human Services for building the statewide Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) Platform. The dashboards on the state’s platform display information on substance use disorder treatment admissions, substance involved deaths, and hospitalizations and emergency department…
Substance Use Risk Index to Support Vulnerable Populations in Iowa
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, PSC developed data resources to help public health leaders target prevention and treatment resources where they’re needed most. This dashboard uses predictive modeling and Census data to map substance use vulnerability across Iowa with the goal of reducing or preventing substance use disorders in these…
Iowa’s Health Snapshot Series
The Public Science Collaborative developed Iowa’s Health Snapshot Series, designed in partnership with Iowa State University Extension Community and Economic Development. This series includes 99 county reports, 275 community reports, and an interactive dashboard, all of which enable users to learn more about health in their counties and communities. Below, you can find links to…
Iowa’s Health Information Platform
This research was funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Focused on prevention, this work specifically targets reducing morbidity and mortality rates related to substance use. Through the process of compiling data, prevention and intervention can be informed, targeted, and timely. Dashboards were created to promote equity in healthcare, inform action with data, improve…
Social Determinants of Health
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, PSC developed this dashboard to offer a visual tool for exploring how education, insurance, language, unemployment, and poverty influence health equity and substance use risks across Iowa communities, providing a better understanding of the environments that create and ameliorate the multifactorial risk factors of substance…