As part of Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, this quick read highlights the relationship between alcohol retailers’ hours of operation in a neighborhood with its rates of binge drinking, violent crime, hospital admissions, property damage, and other occurrences.
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, this quick read highlights how alcohol outlet densities (AODs) affect Iowa communities, especially in rural areas. This resource supports local efforts to design data-informed policies that reduce alcohol-related harms.
This research was funded by the Alcoholic Beverages Division (ABD), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the US Department of Agriculture. This work is an investigation into the location of and access to alcohol. In addition, alcohol’s harmful effects and risk factors of excessive alcohol consumption for individuals, families, and communities. While also developing …
As part of Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, PSC partnered with the National Alcohol and Beverage Control Association (NABCA) and the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division (ABD) to better understand the relationship between alcohol outlets and health and safety risk factors in Iowa. The goal of this project was to develop data and analytics to …
Geospatial Analysis of Health, Safety and Alcohol Outlets in Iowa Read More »
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, PSC partnered with Iowa City’s Partnership for Alcohol Safety Committee to share data insights from PSC’s alcohol analytics. This project investigates the association between Computer-Aided Dispatch System, or 911 calls, and alcohol retail establishments. PSC mapped locations for alcohol, violence, and family-related calls in relation …
Collaborating with the Iowa City Partnership for Alcohol Safety Committee Read More »
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, PSC provided an in-depth look at the alcohol landscape in Alabama through: Cleaning and classifying Alabama alcohol license data Creating measures of alcohol outlet density to enable statewide monitoring and evaluation Creating measures of alcohol outlet density for the city of Montgomery Developing strategic recommendations …
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, PSC partnered with the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association, and Alabama’s Direct Communications to better understand the landscape of alcohol outlets in Alabama and leverage state and local data to inform alcohol risk education …
A Blueprint for Measuring & Monitoring Alcohol Outlets in Alabama, Executive Summary Read More »
As part of Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, this report recommends data-informed local and state policies to improve Iowa’s community health and safety. When it comes to alcohol, Iowa is a high-consumption state, with one of the highest binge drinking rates in the country. That places Iowans and their communities at especially high risk …
Local Alcohol Policies to Improve Community Health & Safety in Iowa Read More »
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, this quick read highlights the context and current policies that surround alcohol in Iowa, both on a state and local level.
This data dashboard visualizes gun violence in Waterloo and community factors that are associated with gun violence, including alcohol outlet clusters.
