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[Tutorial Kit] New Tools for Public Health Data: Airtable
Workshop Chapters Recorded live Jan 27 2026 , timestamps are below. PART 1: 0:00 - Welcome 0:53 - About Us 3:06 - Addressing Imposter Syndrome 4:32 - Data Challenge Overview 4:55 - Q: What is a Key Stakeholder? 6:53 - TOPIC: Prenatal Care PART 2: 9:00 - STEP-BY-STEP 20:18 - GETTING DATA 🎯 Data Challenge Create an indicator list on prenatal care in your region. The Plan Collect key indicators for your community using free sources of prenatal care data in the United states

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[Tutorial Kit] New Tools for Public Health Data: R Studio
Workshop Chapters Recorded live Jan 27 2026, timestamps below PART 1: 0:00 - Welcome 0:59 - About Us 3:10 - Addressing Imposter Syndrome 4:38 - Data Challenge Overview 5:00 - Q: What is a Key Stakeholder? 7:00 - TOPIC: Prenatal Care PART 2: 9:09 - STEP-BY-STEP 16:45 - GETTING DATA 🎯 Data Challenge Create a bar chart on prenatal care for your state. The Plan Collect key indicators for your community using free sources of prenatal care data in the United states, develop car

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[Tutorial Kit] Infographics for Social Media: Prenatal Care
Workshop Chapters Recorded live Jan 27 2026 , timestamps are below. PART 1: 0:00 - Welcome 0:46 - About Us 3:00 - Addressing Imposter Syndrome 4:25 - Data Challenge Overview 4:49 - Q: What is a Key Stakeholder? 6:47 - TOPIC: Prenatal Care PART 2: 8:57 - STEP-BY-STEP 13:35 - GETTING DATA 🎯 Data Challenge Create an infographic for Instagram on prenatal care in your region. The Plan Collect key indicators for your community using free sources of prenatal care data in the Uni

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[Tutorial Kit] New Tools for Public Health Data: Airtable
Workshop Chapters Recorded live Jan 27 2026 , timestamps are below. PART 1: 0:00 - Welcome 0:53 - About Us 3:06 - Addressing Imposter Syndrome 4:32 - Data Challenge Overview 4:55 - Q: What is a Key Stakeholder? 6:53 - TOPIC: Prenatal Care PART 2: 9:00 - STEP-BY-STEP 20:18 - GETTING DATA 🎯 Data Challenge Create an indicator list on prenatal care in your region. The Plan Collect key indicators for your community using free sources of prenatal care data in the United states

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[Tutorial Kit] New Tools for Public Health Data: R Studio
Workshop Chapters Recorded live Jan 27 2026, timestamps below PART 1: 0:00 - Welcome 0:59 - About Us 3:10 - Addressing Imposter Syndrome 4:38 - Data Challenge Overview 5:00 - Q: What is a Key Stakeholder? 7:00 - TOPIC: Prenatal Care PART 2: 9:09 - STEP-BY-STEP 16:45 - GETTING DATA 🎯 Data Challenge Create a bar chart on prenatal care for your state. The Plan Collect key indicators for your community using free sources of prenatal care data in the United states, develop car

Shamini V De Silva
Mar 255 min read
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[Tutorial Kit] Infographics for Social Media: Prenatal Care
Workshop Chapters Recorded live Jan 27 2026 , timestamps are below. PART 1: 0:00 - Welcome 0:46 - About Us 3:00 - Addressing Imposter Syndrome 4:25 - Data Challenge Overview 4:49 - Q: What is a Key Stakeholder? 6:47 - TOPIC: Prenatal Care PART 2: 8:57 - STEP-BY-STEP 13:35 - GETTING DATA 🎯 Data Challenge Create an infographic for Instagram on prenatal care in your region. The Plan Collect key indicators for your community using free sources of prenatal care data in the Uni

Shamini V De Silva
Mar 194 min read


Public Health Advocacy 101
How Do We Advocate for Public Health STEP-by-STEP Table of Contents: Advocating for Public Health Am I allowed to Advocate? LINGO 101: What is “Advocacy”? STEP 1. WHO are my elected officials? STEP 2. HOW do I contact my elected officials? STEP 3. WHEN should I contact my elected officials? Reminders Examples Text Here Letter Writing Steps The Letter Advocating for Public Health Advocate Now! Advocating is when you share your views and expertise with elected officials. Advoc

Shamini V De Silva
Dec 19, 20255 min read


Community Data Internship - September Cohort 2025
Three months ago we welcomed 58 new Community Data Interns to the BroadStreet Institute. Together with teammates and leaders they have explored data in the United States on leading causes of death (Wonder Track) and maternal mortality (Maternal & Infant Health Track) to uncover areas of opportunity for data-guided donations and advocacy for policymakers. 🎉 Congrats to the 2025 September Cohort for wrapping up your 14 week internship! ❤️ Maternal & Infant Health: Alyssa Monde

Tracy Flood
Dec 16, 20251 min read


Data Challenge: Uninsured in America
Workshop Chapters Recorded live Dec 9 2025, timestamps are below 00:00:00:00 Intro 00:01:24:11 Disclosure & Background 00:03:42:09 Outline & Learning Objectives 00:08:19:06 Why are we here? 00:09:57:20 The Plan 00:10:47:14 Data Hunt for Uninsured Rates 00:23:54:00 DATA CHALLENGE START 00:34:56:20 PORTFOLIO PROJECT 1: Infogram 00:34:56:20 PORTFOLIO PROJECT 2: 1-Pager for Elected Official 🎯 The Data Challenge Create a shareable portfolio project highlighting uninsured rates i

Tracy Flood
Dec 16, 20252 min read


Design Kit: Word Art
Creating word art in Canva using American Community Survey data and fractions.

Tracy Flood
Nov 30, 20253 min read


🔍 Data Hunt: Food Insecurity in America
Free, publicly available data on indicators for food insecurity in the United States. Data Ecosystem The data ecosystem can be divided into sources of data and curators of data. Sources of data are shared, original datasets created through surveys, calculations of the environment, etc. Curators of data gather indicators from many sources Sources of Data American Community Survey (ACS) Map the Meal Gap PLACES Project School Lunch Program Food Access Research Atlas (FARA) Cur

Tracy Flood
Nov 19, 20253 min read


Diabetes Mortality Impact Project
Background. A team of interns on The Community Data Internship at BroadStreet Institute completed an impact project examining diabetes mellitus (DM) mortality rates in the U.S. during the June 2025 cohort (June - August 2025). Big Picture Goal : Reduce the mortality rate of DM in the U.S. Our Objective : By the end of the internship cohort, donate to a non-profit organization that tackles DM mortality rates, or an intermediate outcome, through an evidence-based intervention

Shamini V De Silva
Nov 3, 20253 min read


5+ FREE U.S. Census Data Tools
Where to find census data when you want to explore alternatives to data.census.gov.

Tracy Flood
Oct 28, 20252 min read


Community Data Internship - June Cohort 2025
Our community is growing! The Community Data Internship 2025 June Cohort is wrapping up their 10-week data projects.

Tracy Flood
Aug 4, 20251 min read


💰Data-Guided Donation for Infant Mortality
💰Data-Guided Donation for Infant Mortality Can one, small action be so strategic and well-planned that it could make a difference to...

Tracy Flood
Jul 21, 20253 min read


What’s an Impact Project?
BroadStreet creates "Impact Projects". What are they?

Tracy Flood
Jun 16, 20251 min read


2025 Health Priorities
In early 2025, we collaboratively set our health priorities for 2025.

Tracy Flood
Jun 3, 20251 min read


📣 Data-Guided Advocacy for Infant Mortality
Can evidence-based policies reduce the risk of infant mortality in America? We think so. Here's what we did...

Tracy Flood
Apr 21, 20253 min read


Where is Infant Mortality Highest in the U.S.?
Step-by-Step walkthrough of HRSAs Maternal and Infant Health Mapping Tool.

Tracy Flood
Apr 14, 20251 min read


Finding data on Infant Mortality for every county in the U.S. - Is it possible?
4 of our favorite free, public datasources and how to download county-level data on Infant Mortality Rate.

Tracy Flood
Mar 18, 20253 min read


How do we measure infant mortality?
Is infant mortality high in the U.S.? How do we know? Is there a metric or a way to measure it?

Tracy Flood
Mar 11, 20253 min read


Welcome 2025 February Cohort
Welcome Community Data Interns of the 2025 February Cohort. We look forward to working with you!

Tracy Flood
Mar 4, 20251 min read


Impact Project: Reducing Maternal Mortality in the U.S.
Note: This is an active and ongoing project - This page is likely to be updated. Last update Dec 2, 2024 We have $1000 to donate, a team, and a 30-day plan to make difference. Can we do it? Resources like money and time are often limited. Can data guide us to the most effective solutions? We think so. Next steps: Learn more about the methods of the impact project Pledge to this impact project Explore ways to join our team Impact Project Overview Goals and Objectives We believ

Tracy Flood
Dec 1, 202414 min read


Social media public health education through Instagram: @maternal_insights
Reflecting on the @maternal_insights Instagram page

Melody Yeh
Oct 21, 20246 min read


Welcome October Cohort
The Community Data Internship has new team members and we are excited to welcome them!

Tracy Flood
Oct 19, 20241 min read


Congrats August Cohort
A huge congratulations to our 10 Community Data Interns on the BroadStreet Institute's Maternal and Infant Health Track. The internship...

Tracy Flood
Oct 18, 20241 min read


The 2024 Summer Cohort
Congrats to our June Cohort members who completed the BroadStreet Institute Community Data Internship!

Tracy Flood
Sep 14, 20241 min read
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