A concise analysis of daily counts of people and families in New York City's Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter system. This page summarizes trends, weekly patterns, and recent changes using daily shelter census data and highlights implications for public health practice.
Explore an interactive map showcasing the spatial distribution of certified hospital beds across New York State. This map visualizes the number of beds available for various service lines, such as Medical/Surgical, Intensive Care, Neonatal Care, and more. Users can zoom, pan, and hover for detailed …
Discover my in-depth NBA season analysis with dynamic visualizations and data tables. This page features animations of cumulative wins, trend graphs, scatter plots of points scored vs. points allowed, and bar graphs of point differentials. Regularly updated during basketball season, it offers a thor…
Explore the New York City 311 Service Request Data Dashboard, an interactive GIS tool that visualizes social determinants of health using 311 service requests across NYC. Developed by Isaac H. Michaels, DrPH, the dashboard provides spatial analysis of complaint types, dynamic frequency updates, and …
Explore the New York Flu Watch, a comprehensive real-time tracker for influenza data across New York State and New York City. Updated routinely, this tool offers detailed insights into laboratory-confirmed cases, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and flu vaccination coverage. Developed …
Explore detailed data on food service inspections across New York State, including New York City. This page features interactive maps and tables displaying inspection results, violations, and compliance statuses for food establishments. Users can filter data by location and inspection outcome to ass…
Explore an interactive map of healthcare facilities across New York State. Updated routinely, this tool provides detailed information on various facility types including hospitals, hospices, and diagnostic centers. Users can zoom, pan, and select specific facility types to visualize their locations,…
Explore comprehensive visualizations and trends on hate crimes across New York State and New York City. This page features maps, heat maps, and trend graphs detailing the distribution of hate crimes by bias motive, crime type, and county. Analyze monthly and yearly patterns, discover regional variat…
Explore a detailed analysis of New York State’s budget, highlighting revenues, disbursements, and key financial trends. This comprehensive overview, updated annually, delves into the fiscal dynamics of the Empire State, including breakdowns by agency, function, and fund. Access the data to gain insi…
Explore my detailed MLB season insights through interactive visualizations and data tables. I’ve included animations of cumulative wins, trend graphs, scatter plots of runs scored vs. runs allowed, and bar graphs of run differentials. Updated daily during baseball season, this page provides a compre…
Explore trends in births and fertility rates in New York State with data from 1995 to 2023. This page provides detailed visualizations and analysis, including annual birth counts and fertility rates, using data from the CDC WONDER database. Discover key insights into demographic shifts and understan…
Explore comprehensive data on shooting incidents in New York City from 2006 to the present. This updated analysis, including citywide maps, trends, and demographic insights, reveals patterns of gun violence across boroughs and neighborhoods. Discover how fluctuations in incident rates, disparities i…
Explore comprehensive data on communicable disease incidence in New York State, featuring weekly updates and detailed analyses. This page presents visualizations including heat maps, bar graphs, and longitudinal trend graphs, derived from CDC data. Discover insights into disease patterns and trends,…
Explore comprehensive data on all-cause mortality in New York State, covering trends from 1999 to the present. This detailed analysis includes insights into mortality rates across different age groups and jurisdictions, using both annual and weekly data from CDC WONDER and data.cdc.gov. Understand k…
Explore trends and patterns in EMS calls across New York City with data-driven insights by Isaac H. Michaels, DrPH. This comprehensive analysis, based on FDNY data from 2020 to the present, examines daily call volumes, response times, and the most common emergency types. Discover how borough-specifi…
Explore detailed analyses of birth defect trends in New York State on this page. Featuring data from the New York State Birth Defects Registry, it includes cross-sectional and trend graphs that provide insights into birth defect prevalence by disease, year, and sex. The page offers a user-friendly i…
An analysis of risk-adjusted potentially preventable readmission (PPR) rates among hospitals in New York State from 2009 through the most recent year available. This page summarizes statewide trends, hospital- and county-level variation, and key statistics to support health system planning and quali…
Welcome Data Overview How to Use These Data Why Are These Data Important? What Do These Data Show? What Do These Data Not Show? Implications for Public Health Practice Statewide Summary Facility Summaries Technical Notes Published: May 1, 2020 Updated: September 20, 2025 at 11:22AM Welcome Welcom…
Announcing the release of a new white paper exploring the democratization of health data analysis in New York. Co-authored by Adrienne Anderson, Sally Dreslin, Paul Francis, and Isaac Michaels, the paper examines approaches to improving access to and visualization of health data to support public he…
A new article published in Seminars in Perinatology describes the implementation of an obstetric sepsis bundle across a large academic hospital system and its positive impact on maternal health outcomes. The study, authored by Lejdisa Stanaj, Dena Goffman, Brianne Genow, Lynne Meccariello, Julie Ewi…
The map depicts the spatial distribution of shooting incidents in New York City from 2019 to 2023. A three-dimensional elevation model is used to represent incident density, with areas of higher incident counts extruded vertically from the map surface. The color scale is a continuous gradient from d…
This report utilizes data from the New York State Gaming Commission to analyze equine fatalities at race tracks, uncovering trends and patterns to enhance horse safety and welfare. Despite limitations like potential underreporting and data quality issues, the report offers critical insights into the…
Explore the comprehensive COVID-19 Data Tracking Report for New York State, offering up-to-date insights into confirmed cases, diagnostic tests, hospitalizations, deaths, and vaccination trends. This detailed resource provides valuable data by county, demographic breakdowns, and public health implic…
Hospitals Nursing Homes Hospice Diagnostic and Treatment Centers Adult Day Health Care Programs Home Health Agencies Licensed Home Care Service Agencies Published: June 18, 2020 Updated: September 19, 2025 at 02:04AM Hospitals Graph Prepared by: Isaac H. Michaels, DrPH Data Source: Health Data …
Trend Graphs Statewide Enrollment by Month Gender Age Group Race Regions Medicaid Managed Care / Fee For Service Dual Eligibility Aid Category Plan Type Heatmaps Age Group vs. Gender Race vs. Age Group Race vs. Gender Dual Eligibility vs. Gender Dual Eligibility vs. Race Dual Eligibility vs. Medi…
Explore the latest insights from my New York Climate Change Report. This comprehensive analysis, drawing on open data from greenhouse gas emissions to electric generation and gasoline prices, provides a detailed overview of energy trends and climate patterns in New York State. Discover how data from…
Published: March 25, 2020 Updated: November 17, 2025 at 09:33PM Welcome Welcome to this web page, which presents analyses of data on COVID-19 in the United States. I believe that data are an essential component of any public health response. The data on this page are obtained from the data.cdc.gov o…
Explore the provisional data on opioid overdoses in New York State. This page offers detailed visualizations and analyses of overdose deaths, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and naloxone administrations. Learn about state and county-level trends, and access vital information on how to…
Introduction Hospital bed capacity Implications for public health practice Conclusion Adult Beds Statewide New York State, by County New York City, by Hospital Pediatric Beds Statewide New York State, by County New York City, by Hospital Published: November 24, 2022 Updated: September 19, 202…
Welcome Data Overview How to Use These Data Why are These Data Important? What do These Data Show? What do These Data Not Show? Implications for Public Health Practice Death Predictions Predictions Model Specifications Evaluation Predicted vs. Observed Variable Importance Plot Published: Febr…
Explore a comprehensive analysis of county-level health factors versus health outcomes rankings from 2010 to 2023 This page provides detailed graphs and scatter plots for each U.S. state, visualizing trends and correlations between health factors and outcomes as reported by the County Health Ranking…
On-Base Plus Slugging Percentage Age vs. OPS Height vs. OPS Weight vs. OPS Salary vs. OPS Earned Run Average Age vs. ERA Height vs. ERA Weight vs. ERA Salary vs. ERA Team Winning Percentage, Homeruns, and ERA Winning Percentage vs. Homeruns Winning Percentage vs. ERA Homeruns vs. ERA Team Winn…
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Published: August 8, 2019 Updated: September 02, 2024 at 03:43PM Graph Prepared By: Isaac H. Michaels, MPH Death Data Source: CDC WONDER State Policy Data Source: www.statefirearmlaws.org
Statewide By Hospital CLABSI Surgical Ward CLABSI Neonatal ICU Level 2/3 SSI Colon CLABSI Neurosurgical ICU CLABSI Pediatric ICU CLABSI Step Down Unit CDI Hospital Onset SSI CABG chest site SSI Hip CLABSI Coronary ICU CLABSI Pediatric Ward SSI Hysterectomy CLABSI Medical Ward CDI Possibly-My-Hospit…
Published: September 17, 2022 Updated: November 14, 2023 at 06:57PM Note: This page is no longer being updated, because CDC (as of September 27, 2023) is no longer updating the Weekly Provisional Counts of Deaths by State and Select Causes, 2020-2023 dataset on data.cdc.gov. Overview Welcome to my …
Published: February 1, 2020 Updated: November 14, 2023 at 06:54PM Note: This page is no longer being updated, because CDC (as of September 27, 2023) is no longer updating the Weekly Provisional Counts of Deaths by State and Select Causes, 2020-2023 dataset on data.cdc.gov. Overview Welcome to my da…
Overview Complete Vaccination By Antigen Diphtheria Hepatitis B Measles Mumps Polio Rubella Varicella Technical Notes Dataset Description Data Methodology Limitations of Use Published: September 11, 2022 Updated: September 01, 2023 at 04:43PM Overview Welcome to my data analysis of immunizati…
Discover my thoughts on the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in a recent interview with the University at Albany. I discuss my advocacy for an air quality census in New York schools and reflect on how the pandemic has influenced my professional goals. I highlight the ongoing public health…
Read my op-ed, 'The Need for an Air Quality Census in New York State Schools,' published in the Bronx Times. This piece highlights the critical need for an air quality census in New York schools to improve indoor environments amid ongoing risks of airborne diseases like COVID-19. I advocate for cond…
I am proud to announce that my letter addressing the important issue of indoor air quality in New York Public Library branches was published on 1/13/2023 in The Riverdale Press. In this letter, I highlight the dangers of poor indoor air quality, particularly during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and…
Uncover the persistent staffing shortages affecting New York State's public health workforce. A recent study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by Isaac Michaels and colleagues reveals a decline in full-time staff and rising vacancy rates across local …
Discover how disparities in internet access are linked to lower COVID-19 vaccination rates in New York City. A new study by Isaac Michaels and colleagues, published in Preventing Chronic Disease, reveals that communities with limited internet access, particularly in the Bronx and Brooklyn, face sign…
Explore a new publication in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice that details innovative methods for generating subcounty health data. The article highlights the need for granular data to identify health disparities within counties, offering recommendations and lessons from a multis…
Explore a novel technique for visualizing 50 years of cancer mortality trends across the U.S. through synchronized map and graph animations. Published in the CDC journal Preventing Chronic Disease, this innovative GIS method helps health officials target prevention efforts more effectively. Discover…
Graph Prepared By: Isaac H. Michaels, MPH Death Source: Health Data NY Data Visualization Inspired By: Sanger-Katz M. In the U.S., an Angioplasty Costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400. New York Times. December 27, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/upshot/expensive-health-care-world-compari…
Discover winning solutions to the NYTimes Spelling Bee with the Killer Bee Word Discovery App by Isaac H. Michaels, MPH. This app analyzes combinations of letters from the daily puzzle to generate valid English words, now enhanced with Webster's Unabridged Dictionary for even more word options.
Description: Data visualization by Isaac H. Michaels, MPH showing county-level data on physical inactivity and heart disease mortality in Texas. Distributions are presented geographically (maps), univariately (histograms), and bivariately (scatter plot). The county-level association between physical…
Graph Prepared By: Isaac H. Michaels, MPH Data Source: CDC WONDER
A new interactive web application developed by Isaac H. Michaels, MPH, visualizes health determinants using NYC 311 service request data. Presented at the 2019 New York State Population Health Summit, this tool enables users to analyze and map social and environmental factors influencing public heal…
Explore the link between food distress and smoking among racially and ethnically diverse adults in Schenectady, NY. This study, published in the CDC journal Preventing Chronic Disease, reveals that limited access to healthy food is significantly associated with higher smoking rates, highlighting cri…
A study in the CDC journal Preventing Chronic Disease reveals a significant decline in tobacco availability and advertising in Albany, NY food stores over 12 years, though 74.5% still sold tobacco in 2015. Efforts by local tobacco control, pharmacy industry regulations, and increased retailer fees c…
This study explores how food shopping venues and neighborhood food environments influence BMI among urban Guyanese, Black, and White adults in the US. Findings suggest that supermarkets, ethnic markets, and food co-ops have varying impacts on BMI across different racial and ethnic groups, highlighti…
A new study in the journal The Diabetes Educator reveals that travel distance is a significant barrier for Guyanese immigrants to participation in diabetes intervention programs at faith-based organizations in Schenectady, New York. The research highlights the importance of location in ensuring acce…
Explore the spatial access of Guyanese immigrants in Schenectady, New York, to faith-based diabetes interventions. This award-winning poster, presented at the 23rd University at Albany School of Public Health Student Poster Day, examines whether travel distance affects participation in diabetes prog…
Explore the potential of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) to improve public health in Schenectady, NY. This white paper outlines four innovative use cases for SIBs to reduce asthma, falls among seniors, type 2 diabetes, and smoking, while generating savings for the community. Discover how SIBs can align i…