See the disparities. Track the progress.
The Tribal Health Equity Dashboard makes disparities in tribal and Indian health visible, searchable, and citable. Built so advocates, journalists, grant writers, and researchers have a shared source of truth they did not have to build themselves.
Indicators that matter for tribal health equity.
Life expectancy
Life expectancy at birth, disaggregated to IHS service areas where data permits, compared to US average and state-level averages.
Maternal and infant health
Maternal mortality, infant mortality, low birth weight, prenatal care access, and postpartum outcomes.
Chronic disease prevalence
Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and end-stage renal disease rates, with service-area-level disaggregation where available.
Behavioral health access
Suicide rates, substance use disorder prevalence, and access to behavioral health services including provider-to-population ratios.
Tribes and advocates should not have to pay to see their own data.
The Equity Dashboard pulls from public datasets. We did the hard work of joining, cleaning, and visualizing them so anyone can use them. Revenue from IHA's paid products (Market Intelligence, Marketplace) subsidizes the Dashboard infrastructure. That is the operating model: paid products fund free public goods.
Every indicator cites its source.
Every metric on the Dashboard links back to the underlying dataset with the methodology note. If a user disagrees with an indicator's construction, they can see exactly how it was built and argue with it specifically, not in general.
NCHS mortality files, PRAMS, BRFSS, vital statistics
Medicare and Medicaid claims, cost reports, quality measures
GPRA measures, facility reports, workforce data
HPSA and MUA designations, workforce shortage data
ACS demographic, AIAN population, language, income
State-level tribal consultation agreements where published
Built to be cited.
Grant applications
Pull an indicator, cite the source, attach the methodology. Federal grant reviewers see a claim backed by a specific public dataset.
Congressional advocacy
Arm tribal leadership with charts and numbers that come from government data, not vendor data. Harder to dismiss in a hearing.
Journalism and research
Reporters verifying a claim, academics writing an equity paper, think tanks scoping a policy brief. One place to start.
Launched April 7, 2026. The Dashboard is updated as underlying datasets refresh. Methodology notes and change logs are published alongside each indicator.
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Open the Dashboard, find the indicator, copy the chart or cite the data source. No login required.
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