Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the launch of CUNY ISPH’s flagship public dashboard project, the Ending the HIV Epidemic (ETE) Dashboard, ISPH dashboard team members Anay Patel and Ben Katz presented a workshop at the 10th Annual Ending the HIV Epidemic Summit in Albany, New York, in December titled “Public Health Dashboards: Data Integration, Design, and Impact in Addressing Intersecting Epidemics”. This workshop highlighted ISPH’s three New York State dashboard projects: the ETE Dashboard, the Hepatitis C (HCV) Elimination Dashboard, and the STI Dashboard NY. The presentation explored both the opportunities and challenges of integrating multiple public health data sources into a single interactive, publicly accessible platform, while also discussing future priorities for building a more coordinated and equity-focused dashboard response to overlapping epidemics.
In April, the STI Dashboard, New York State’s first sexual health dashboard, marked its first year as a publicly available resource for tracking sexually transmitted infection trends across the state. As part of the STI Dashboard’s annual surveillance data update, newly released county-level race/ethnicity trend visualizations were added to provide users with more detailed local insights to support data-informed public health planning, prevention, and response efforts throughout New York State.
The HCV Elimination Dashboard also continues to evolve as New York State advances toward its hepatitis C elimination goals for 2030. Earlier this year, the dashboard was featured in the January newsletter of the New York State Association for Rural Health, recognizing its value as a resource for stakeholders and public health practitioners serving rural communities across the state.
Looking ahead, the ISPH dashboard team is expanding its focus on different social determinants of health and how to best visualize their impact on key related health outcomes. By shining a light on measures related to housing, poverty, education, insurance status, and other social and structural factors, our team aims to support a deeper understanding of some of the causes behind health inequities and provide public health professionals, policymakers, and communities with actionable insights to guide more equitable interventions and resource allocation.
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