Decision Support Tools
The Policy Tracker provides an updated look at behavioral health-related legislation in Iowa. Use it to learn about legislation related to your organization or work and identify priorities. The policy tracker will typically be updated at the end of each legislative week.
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…
Iowa’s Prescription Monitoring Program
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, PSC developed this dashboard to visualize prescription opioid sales across Iowa, using Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) to highlight volume trends by location and population size. The dashboard allows users to assess, for example, whether pharmacies are overly concentrated in urban places or if sale rates…
National Learning Community Network
The Public Science Collaborative collaborated with University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute to develop the website, data tools, and underlying data to advance economic mobility via the Community Learning through Data Discovery process. This process is made up of community-based research where the community participates in asking and answering the questions that drive information gathering and…
Waterloo Safe Neighborhoods Initiative: Gun Violence Dashboard
This data dashboard visualizes gun violence in Waterloo and community factors that are associated with gun violence, including alcohol outlet clusters.
Data Science for the Public Good Program
The Data Science for the Public Good (DSPG) Young Scholars program provides an opportunity for students interested in research to be a part of a solution focused team using data to inform real public policy decisions. Over the course of a summer, students will learn methods of programming, statistical analysis, and data tools. These skills…
Advancing Substance Use Recovery in Iowa
This research was funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). It was designed to identify areas for growth within Iowa’s recovery resources and communities as well as to provide information to the Iowa Department of Public Health. After a thorough data analysis conducted on existing resources, decisions can be made regarding…
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