Serving Nebraska Communities
The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Nebraska’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center, has launched two new data visualization tools to help communities in Nebraska better understand cancer trends in their counties and support local prevention and screening efforts.
Data dashboards
The Cancer InFocus Data Dashboard is an interactive tool that provides county- and state-level information on cancer incidence, screening rates, risk factors and demographics. Users can explore local cancer trends and spot patterns to inform public health planning, outreach and research.
County Cancer Data Infographics
The County Cancer Data Infographics offers simple, county-specific summaries of cancer statistics and community characteristics. The visual reports are designed for quick reference and can be used by health departments, health care systems, community organizations and researchers.
Services
Leading Nebraska into community-responsive research
The data analytics assessment team at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center outreach provides cancer-relevant and catchment area-focused data to support cancer research at Massey. Promotes collaboration, innovation, and excellence while fostering engagement with internal and external stakeholders. Leveraging external, publicly available datasets such as sociodemographic and cancer data from local, state and national sources, the team promotes a better understanding of the cancer center’s catchment area.
- Building catchment area data resources : Develop and maintain data resources that describe cancer burden, screening, risk factors, and related population health patterns across the FPBCC catchment area.
- Interpreting patterns in the data: Examine differences across places and populations and help put findings into context for cancer center planning, outreach, and engagement.
- Creating usable data products: Develop maps, dashboards, summaries, infographics, and presentation materials that make catchment area data easier to communicate and use.
- Supporting community-facing dissemination: Help shape how data are shared so that communication is clear, relevant, and appropriate for community and partner audiences.
- Contributing analytic expertise: Provide epidemiologic and geospatial support for work connected to FPBCC catchment priorities.