• Elwin Wu, Jennifer Villani, Alissa Davis, Naleef Fareed, Daniel R Harris, Timothy R Huerta, Marc R LaRochelle, Cortney C Miller, and Emmanuel A Oga.
• Social Intervention Group, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, USA. Electronic address: ew157@columbia.edu.
• Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Dec 1; 217: 108331.

BackgroundWith opioid misuse, opioid use disorder (OUD), and opioid overdose deaths persisting at epidemic levels in the U.S., the largest implementation study in addiction research-the HEALing Communities Study (HCS)-is evaluating the impact of the Communities That Heal (CTH) intervention on reducing opioid overdose deaths in 67 disproportionately affected communities from four states (i.e., "sites"). Community-tailored dashboards are central to the CTH intervention's mandate to implement a community-engaged and data-driven process. These dashboards support a participating community's decision-making for selection and monitoring of evidence-based practices to reduce opioid overdose deaths.Methods/DesignA community-tailored dashboard is a web-based set of interactive data visualizations of community-specific metrics. Metrics include opioid overdose deaths and other OUD-related measures, as well as drivers of change of these outcomes in a community. Each community-tailored dashboard is a product of a co-creation process between HCS researchers and stakeholders from each community. The four research sites used a varied set of technical approaches and solutions to support the scientific design and CTH intervention implementation. Ongoing evaluation of the dashboards involves quantitative and qualitative data on key aspects posited to shape dashboard use combined with website analytics.DiscussionThe HCS presents an opportunity to advance how community-tailored dashboards can foster community-driven solutions to address the opioid epidemic. Lessons learned can be applied to inform interventions for public health concerns and issues that have disproportionate impact across communities and populations (e.g., racial/ethnic and sexual/gender minorities and other marginalized individuals).Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04111939).Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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