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Skylar W. Marvel1, John S. House2, Matthew Wheeler2, Kuncheng Song1, Yihui Zhou1, Fred A. Wright1,3, Weihsueh A. Chiu4, Ivan Rusyn4, Alison Motsinger-Reif2*, David M. Reif1*

Affiliations:

1 Bioinformatics Research Center, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.

2 Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA.

3 Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

4 Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77845, USA.

CalEPA made this resource in order to create a “...holistic view of regulated activities statewide.”(CalEPA.2022).

ECHO is maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Its purpose is to provide comprehensive information about all of the facilities regulated by the EPA. It is connected directly to the EPA's internal enforcement record system, so information is currrent.

Government Operations Agency aims to create a statewide open data portal intended to improve collaboration, expand transparency and lead to increased effectiveness. Despite the already existing open data portals hosted by several state agencies, this resource is made to host data from more than one agency.

The data is made available through the works of thousands of global collaborators. From NGOs, to activist, to researchers and various community organizations. The platforms mission is to create a space to make these globalized mobilizations more visible and collaborative. The goal and purpose of the EJ Atlas based on the founder and site:, “The EJ Atlas collects these stories of communities struggling for environmental justice from around the world. It aims to make these mobilization more visible, highlight claims and testimonies and to make the case for true corporate and state accountability for the injustices inflicted through their activities. It also attempts to serve as a virtual space for those working on EJ issues to get information, find other groups working on related issues, and increase the visibility of environmental conflicts.”

The California Student Health Index is made available by the California School-Based Alliance, a statewide organization on a mission to put health care in schools in California, which has lagged behind other states in supporting the establishment of school-based health SBHCs. The alliance aims to increase the number of SBHCs in California to 500 by 2030. There are currently 291 SBHCs in California (and over 10,000 K-12 schools). They are generally implemented by local districts, community organizations, healthcare providers, and school leaders rather than by state officials. Funding also typically follows a grassroots model (placing the burden on local communities), despite the funding California received ($30 million in 2011-2012) from the Affordable Care Act ACA to build and expand SBHCs (out of $200 million nationwide).

According to the California School-Based Alliance, SBHCs offer a step forward towards health and education equity by providing easy and safe access to healthcare, addressing physical, mental, social, and emotional health, and offering integrated healthcare through coordination between schools and community health care providers. The establishment of SBHCs has been recommended by the Center for Disease Control’s Community Preventative Services Task Force based on evidence that they improve educational outcomes for low-income populations and generally promote health equity.

The Student Health Index is intended to support these goals by providing a quantitative analytical tool that supports statewide advocacy to increase and maintain the number of SBHCs, build awareness of the interrelations between health and education, and to provide access to comparative tools for parsing publicly available local data in ways that can help communities and stakeholders identify opportunities to improve health care access in schools.

This was developed in 1988 by personnel from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) within the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) with funding from the Belgian government and the World Health Organization (WHO), this data source aims to provide free open access information for users affiliated with academic organizations, non-profits, and international public organizations looking to gain understanding on the distribution  of disaster occurrences around the globe.

This data is made available by the CDC Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and more specifically the Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP), a team of public health and geospatial science, technology, visualization, and analysis experts. Their mission is to provide leadership, expertise, and education in the application of geography, geospatial science, and geographic information systems (GIS) for public health research and practice.

The creation of the Covid-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index (PVI) Dashboard was a collaborative effort between scientists from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina State University, and Texas @&M University. Their mission was to provide a resource to support dynamic, community-level decision-making in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Each PVI county profile is calculated using Toxicological Prioritization Index (ToxiPi) software, which integrates data within a geospatial context. ToxPi*GIS is meant to promote the development of targeted, effective community policies. ToxPi*GIS was created by the Reif Lab at North Carolina State University. The overarching goal of the lab is to understand the interactions between human health and the environment through the application of analytical/visual methods and experimental design. Data sources include epidemiological studies of human health, high-throughput screening (HTS) of environmental chemicals and model organism data. The lab is run by Dr. David Reif (Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences) and members include students from several degree programs as well as post-doctoral and senior scientists.