Research Type: Data Tools and Websites

Lee County Substance Use Monitoring System screen capture

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 …

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Lee County Substance Use Monitoring System screen capture

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: …

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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 screen capture

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 …

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Iowa Treatment Episode Data 2000-21 screen capture

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 …

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Recovery Ready Community Index Dashboard screen capture

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 substance use monitoring system screen capture

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.

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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 …

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Alcohol Research Initiative

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 …

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Substance Use Vulnerability Index screen capture

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 …

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