Community Building

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

Iowa Public Health AmeriCorps

The Iowa Public Health AmeriCorps allows students, young professionals, and other community members the opportunity to develop career skills in public health, while contributing to vital health projects across the state of Iowa and providing support for public health practitioners.

Students participate in the 2019 Healthy LifeStars Step-a-Thon.

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.

Business Leadership Network

The Business Leadership Network (BLN) fosters ongoing, mutually beneficial relationships between the UI College of Public Health and small and medium-sized businesses and communities in Iowa. 

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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.