News & Updates
Uplifting Our Community Through Building Data Capacity
Over the past year, through our community partnerships, our team heard a consistent desire for capacity boosts to address organizational data challenges. Oftentimes, the challenge is so great that understanding where to even begin is the biggest barrier! At the Hawai‘i Data Collaborative, we aspire to be a gateway to a full spectrum of data support services to enhance the data capacities of organizations working to support households in need. We welcome you to read this blog post to learn more about how we support our partners in building their internal data capacities to unlock the data insights they need to inform their work.
Hawai‘i Data Collaborative at the 16th Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival
Nick Redding, Executive Director of the Hawai‘i Data Collaborative (HDC), was invited to join two panels at the 16th Annual Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival.
The first panel took place on October 5th, and included experts in healthcare, public health, and data to discuss Lessons for Future Pandemics. The second panel took place on October 28th, and included data experts to discuss Big Data Visualization.
Newly Released CDC Estimates Reveal Community-Level Health Indicators
Recently the 500 Cities project, a collaboration between the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released small-area estimates of health outcomes, risk factors, and healthcare usage for the 500 largest cities in the U.S. While health measures are often reported at the state level, the 500 Cities project seeks to equip local health stakeholders with more granular estimates of community health data, thereby informing important policy, planning, and programmatic decision-making.