Research Products & Data Tools
My lab designs and builds operational data infrastructure for communities, agencies, and practitioners — interactive dashboards, surveillance systems, and decision-support tools that move evidence from the research pipeline into real-world action. Most tools are built in partnership with state and local agencies and remain live and actively maintained.
25+ tools & platforms | 8+ state & local partners | 3,000+ open dataset downloads | Live most tools continuously updated
Public Science Collaborative
Home of the lab: translational research, decision-support tools, and community partnerships across Iowa and beyond.
publicsciencecollaborative.org
SURVEILLANCE & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DASHBOARDS
These tools help public health officials, prevention coalitions, and community organizations monitor substance use trends, treatment utilization, and social risk factors at the county, city, and neighborhood level.
Iowa Treatment Admissions Dashboard
Descriptive analysis of treatment admissions to federally funded substance use programs in Iowa, 2000–2021.
Team: Dorius, S.F., Voss, M., Dorius, C.
Mapping the Social Determinants of Health
Interactive map of social determinants of health across Iowa, prepared for the Bureau of Substance Abuse.
Team: Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., True-Funk, A.*, Van Selous, K.*
Substance Use Risk Index
Identifies vulnerable populations and high-risk geographies for substance use across Iowa.
Team: Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., True-Funk, A.*, Van Selous, K.*
Iowa Prescription Monitoring Program
Interactive analysis of Iowa's prescription drug monitoring program data.
Team: Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Van Selous, K.*
Sexually Transmitted Infections in Iowa
Interactive visualization of STI rates across Iowa.
Team: Potter, T.*, Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Van Selous, K.*
Opioids & Poly-substance Use in Iowa
Interactive analysis of opioids in combination with other substances in Iowa treatment data.
Team: Potter, T.*, Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., True-Funk, A.*, Van Selous, K.*
Treatment Demographic Profiles
Profiles of Iowans seeking substance use treatment, by demographics and substance type.
Team: Potter, T.*, Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., True-Funk, A.*, Van Selous, K.*
Iowa Community Analytics & Profile Dashboard
Neighborhood-level analysis across key American Community Survey indicators for Iowa communities.
Team: Voss, M.J., Dorius, S.F., Van Selous, K.*, Dorius, C.
ALCOHOL ENVIRONMENT MONITORING
These tools support regulatory intelligence — mapping outlet density, proximity to schools, and the relationship between the alcohol environment and community harms including traffic crashes and family violence.
Iowa Alcohol Insights Platform
Geospatial dashboard showing licensed alcohol outlet locations, outlet density, proximity to schools, and alcohol-related crash data statewide.
Team: Dorius, S.F., Van Selous, K.*, Dorius, C.
Iowa Alcohol Density Monitoring Program
Statewide monitoring of licensed alcohol outlet density and community-level risk indicators.
Team: Dorius, S.F., Van Selous, K.*, Voss, M.J., Dorius, C.
Community Alcohol Monitoring Dashboards
City-level outlet density dashboards deployed in Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Marshalltown.
Team: Dorius, S.F., Van Selous, K.*, Voss, M.J., Dorius, C.
RECOVERY RESOURCE LOCATORS
Real-time tools connecting people in recovery, their families, and providers with peer support meetings, recovery coaches, housing, mental health services, and community resources across Iowa.
Recovery Iowa
Statewide recovery resource platform connecting Iowans with peer support, community profiles, harm reduction services, and science-based recovery tips.
Team: Dorius, C., Dorius, S.F., Voas, R., Nosrati M.*, Voss, M.*, True-Funk, A.*, Van Selous, K.*, and others
Iowa Peer Support Meeting Finder
Scrapes 12+ websites each morning to surface near-real-time peer support meeting data — location, day, time, language, and accessibility accommodations.
Team: Nosrati, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Voss, M.*, Van Selous, K.*
Iowa Health & Recovery Resource Locator
Maps recovery housing, mental health centers, rural clinics, MAT sites, peer support providers, drug drop-off locations, and VA health centers statewide.
Team: Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Voss, M.*, Nosrati, M.*, Van Selous, K.*
Iowa Recovery Coach Locator
Directory of recovery coaches across Iowa — name, location, website, and contact information.
Team: Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Nosrati, M.*
Iowa Community Resource Locator
Maps childcare providers, parks, workforce development centers, places of worship, schools, colleges, and libraries in every Iowa community.
Team: Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Voss, M.*, Nosrati, M.*, Van Selous, K.*
COMMUNITY DATA SCIENCE & DSPG STUDENT PROJECTS
These tools were produced by student fellows through the Data Science for the Public Good (DSPG) program and related community partnership projects. Students are indicated with *.
National Learning Community Network
Website, data tools, and underlying data advancing economic mobility through the CLD3 Community Learning through Data Discovery process. Multi-institution team.
Community Capitals Mobility Dashboard
Economic mobility indicators for Iowa communities, built for ISU Extension and Outreach.
Team: Rajabalizadeh, A.*, Sridhar, K.*, Bustin, J.*, Voss, M.*, Dorius, C., Abraham, W.
Iowa Substance Use Care Infrastructure Map
Maps Iowa's substance use treatment providers and recovery supports.
Team: Sridhar, K.*, Rajabalizadeh, A.*, Van Selous, K.*, Dorius, S.F., Hofmann, H., Dorius, C.
Alcohol Prevention Needs Dashboard
Identifies Iowa communities with the greatest need for alcohol prevention resources.
Team: Thomas, D.*, Zhu, X.*, Chong, K.*, Thompson, K.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C.
ISU Extension Community Helpline Analysis
Dashboard expanding and analyzing helpline service utilization for ISU Extension and Outreach.
Team: Thomas, D.*, Zhu, X.*, Chong, K.*, Maloney, A.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C.
OPEN DATASETS & EARLY DATA SCIENCE WORK
Earlier data science work produced open datasets on global socioeconomic inequality, population health, and media content — collectively downloaded more than 3,000 times on Kaggle and the Open Science Framework.
Country Socioeconomic Status, 1880–2010
Long-run cross-national SES indicators for social science research. Dorius, S.F. (2017).
Population Socioeconomic Status, 1880–2010
Global social and economic indicators at the population level. Dorius, S.F. (2016).
Global Social Survey Infrastructure Dataset
Harmonized multi-country survey data infrastructure. Dorius, S.F. & Jin, X.* (2016).
GMO News Sources Dataset
Coded dataset of GMO news sources for media analysis research. Dorius, S.F. & Lawrence-Dill, C. (2018).
Quantifying the Value of Citizenship, 2016
Passport power and visa-free access dataset. Dorius, S.F. & Yedla, A.* (2017).
Students are indicated with *. For questions or collaboration inquiries, contact sdorius@iastate.edu. Tools built through the Public Science Collaborative at Iowa State University.