Health Tools

AirNow is your one-stop source for air quality data. Our recently redesigned site highlights air quality in your local area first, while still providing air quality information at state, national, and world views. A new interactive map even lets you zoom out to get the big picture or drill down to see data for a single air quality monitor.

Provides mapping of current fires and smoke.

Many factors influence how well and how long we live, from our access to affordable housing or well-paying jobs to opportunities for a good education for our kids. The County Health Rankings model shows us how these factors work together and illustrates where we can take action to improve health and eliminate unjust barriers to opportunity.

The Environmental Justice Dashboard to explore data on environmental exposures, community characteristics, and health burden — factors important to understanding and addressing environmental justice issues.

Provides information regarding pollution sources in a given geographic region.

The Health Policy Institute of Ohio translates complex data into actionable policy insights, connects diverse perspectives to inform policy decisions and offers expertise to navigate the changing policy environment.learn more

Vaccines are under constant study. For a vaccine to be recommended—as part of the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule—it must be tested, found safe and closely monitored. Safety testing begins as soon as a new vaccine is made and clinical trials begin, and evidence of safety is gathered for as long as it is in use.

Extreme heat events have long threatened public health in the United States. The CDC Heat & Health Tracker provides local heat and health information so communities can better prepare for and respond to extreme heat events. Use the search on the right to explore how extreme heat affects your county, populations who are at risk, and response resources.

Immunize.org supports healthcare professionals with educational resources and advocate to remove barriers to vaccination for all. learn more

The National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) is a web-based platform that launched in 2009. It is used by local, state, and territorial health departments in the United States to report all waterborne and foodborne disease outbreaks, certain fungal disease outbreaks, and all enteric disease outbreaks transmitted by contact with environmental sources, infected persons or animals, or unknown modes of transmission to CDC. learn more

Nextstrain is an open-source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data. We provide a continually-updated view of publicly available data alongside powerful analytic and visualization tools for use by the community

The Ohio Public Health Data Warehouse is a self-service online tool where anyone can obtain the most recent public health data available about Ohio.

For parents and people of all ages, it provides timely, accurate, and factual information about vaccines and the diseases they prevent. Vaccines save lives! - learn more

They provide accurate and factual information about vaccines and the diseases they prevent. learn more

The Weekly Influenza (Flu) Vaccination Dashboard is an exploratory data product designed to share preliminary weekly influenza vaccination data, including coverage estimates, using existing and new data sources.