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Addressing Diversity in Clinical Research: Data for Alignment with New FDA Guidelines
The FDA will soon require BioPharma companies and Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) to meet new diversity requirements in clinical trials, ensuring studies are inclusive and representative of all populations. This policy update, coupled with increasing awareness of disparities in clinical research access, underscores the urgent need for a more equitable distribution of research opportunities. Learn how PolicyMap can support the move toward greater inclusivity.
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Mapping Homelessness: Visualizing Trends and Challenges
In the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision backing anti-camping laws, which significantly impacts homeless individuals across the nation, PolicyMap’s U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Homelessness data update comes at a crucial time. This refreshed dataset provides essential insights into homelessness, helping communities and policymakers better understand and respond to the ever-evolving challenges faced by homeless populations.
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Prepare For Hurricanes with Data on Resiliency and Vulnerability
As the United States braces for another hurricane season, our team considers the emergency management officials and hospital systems readying their response. A number of indicators in PolicyMap can help identify which communities may have the most difficulty dealing with the natural disaster, including the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) and the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI).
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North Carolina Healthcare Foundation
“PolicyMap is really helpful in removing the lag between identifying sources for publicly available data and gaining insights through the identification of service gaps in specific geographies.” –Senior Program Manager, Research and Policy
North Carolina Healthcare Foundation is on a mission to improve the health of their communities and make high-quality healthcare equitable and accessible for all. PolicyMap enables the foundation to source and analyze neighborhood-level data, identify gaps in service, and focus on areas with the most need.
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The HUD homelessness data has been updated to 2023. This data shows homeless estimates as captured in a single point-in-time count.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) is now available on PolicyMap! The EPA EJScreen includes environmental indicators, socioeconomic indicators, and EJ Supplemental Indexes that summarize how environmental indicators and specific socioeconomic indicators interact in the same location.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (NRI) is now available on PolicyMap.
The FBI Violent/Property Crime and Hate Crimes datasets have been updated.
The HUD Qualified Census Tracts (QCTs) and Difficult Development Areas (DDAs) dataset is now updated to 2024.
BLS QCEW data has been updated to 2023.
Business and Residential Vacancy has been updated through Quarter 1, 2024. This is a refresh of all the data and updated to 2024 zip code boundaries. All the historic years are re-mapped to 2024 zip code boundaries to assist users with comparisons over time. The update also includes the 2022 vintages of block group, census tract, county boundaries, and the new 2023 Metro Areas.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) & Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Environmental Justice Index is now available on PolicyMap.
The Census LEHD – Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data has been updated to 2021.
We are committed to our promise of curated, cleaned, standardized, and always updated data. We’re posting real-time updates on our website and X (formerly known as Twitter).
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Open PolicyMap Training Sessions
Offered twice a week. Register here.
Level 1: Learning the basics of PolicyMap Level 2: Learn the Data Loader, Multi-Layer Maps, and other Advanced Features
Open to non-subscribers. Course times rotate weekly. Don’t see a time that works for you?
Contact us.
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Join Us!
Rock Health Summit
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
San Francisco, CA
PolicyMap is thrilled to be a partner of the 2024 Rock Health Summit, a digital health conference that brings together diverse minds from technology, medicine, public health, and beyond for a day of inspired conversation and connection.
Catch our CEO, Maggie McCullough, as she takes the stage for the Food-as-Medicine Panel. The session is titled: From Plate to Prescription: The New Era of Food as Medicine. Stay tuned for an upcoming blog post from PolicyMap on Food-as-Medicine.
Maggie will be joined by:
Chris Lew, Principal, Consulting @ Rock Health
Jason Langheier MD, MPH, CEO @ Foodsmart
Sarah Mastrorocco, VP of Health @ Instacart
Pamela Schwartz, Executive Director, Community Health @ Kaiser Permanente
Tambra Raye Stevenson, Founder + CEO @ WANDA: Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics & Agriculture
Want to join us? Find more registration details here!
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