Community Building

Tackling some public health problems requires an entire community to unite behind a solution. We can help with that.

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INVEST Health

INVEST Health is an initiative that brings together diverse leaders from mid-sized U.S. cities across the nation to develop new strategies for increasing and leveraging private and public investments to accelerate improvements in neighborhoods facing the biggest barriers to better health. 

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Healthy LifeStars

Healthy LifeStars is a national non-profit organization dedicated to ending childhood obesity through education, awareness and changed habits to influence future generations of healthy children.

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Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention

Learn more about the work of the Iowa Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and the Childhood Lead Advisory Workgroup.

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I-SUDS

We are building the Iowa Substance Abuse Use Data Set (I-SUDS), a data warehouse for substance abuse data derived from institutional records and directly from substance users.

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Health Equity Training

Building Health Equity is a series of trainings, webinars, and podcasts that teach health equity concepts to health department employees.