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The Polis Center at IUPUI is partnering with the State of Indiana's Management Performance Hub (MPH), the IU Public Policy Institute, and IU Business Research Center on the Indiana Data Partnership (IDP) project. The IDP was formed with Indiana University (IU) as an enhancement to MPH’s mission by creating a replicable, sustainable framework that helps additional local and non-governmental organizations successfully partner to maximize holistic solutions and minimize duplication of efforts through sharing and viewing common data. The MPH provides data analytics solutions tailored to address management and policy questions enabling improved outcomes for Hoosiers. The project is funded through the Lilly Endowment and additional partners will be added as the initiative progresses.

It is hard to imagine a health challenge more pervasive than the opioid crisis. Opioids now kill more people each year than vehicle accidents, guns, or breast cancer. One of the ways in which communities and states, including Indiana, are responding to the war on opioids is by using geographic information systems to better identify where to target resources for prevention and mitigation. Click to read more.