As part of Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, this overview and explanation of methodology describes PSC’s Iowa Alcohol Density Monitoring Program to help understand the relationship between concentration of alcohol outlets and violence in Iowa.
The Public Science Collaborative partnered with the Waterloo Safe Neighborhoods Commission to facilitate a workshop in Waterloo and design neighborhood health and safety strategies. Guiding the discussion was the question: “How can we best use data to support the goals of the Safe Neighborhoods Commision?” PSC conducted an extensive data scan to understand Waterloo assets …
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 …
The Public Science Collaborative facilitated a workshop in Burlington to design strategies aimed at improving community health and safety while furthering downtown redevelopment. A diverse group, including representatives of the business community, city government, local non-profits, the health sector, public health, community safety, and ISU Extension gathered to discuss community strengths, opportunities, and actionable solutions …
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As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, PSC partnered with Cerro Gordo County to strategize the design of an alcohol surveillance system. PSC worked with the county to identify community strengths, pressing problems, questions to guide action, and understand health and safety data needs.
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 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 …
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As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, PSC sought to strengthen the Iowa Department of Public Health’s (IDPH) surveillance of substance use in Iowa, with particular attention to intergenerational impacts, through the deployment of an ethnographic assessment of active and former substance users. The goal of these activities is to help IDPH …
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