A decision-support tool for the people who have to answer the opioid crisis on the ground: county health directors, lawmakers and advocacy groups. It shows how large the problem has grown, guides the user through shaping a response, then puts a price on that response alongside the savings it could produce.
The audience is named rather than implied, county health directors, legislators, advocates, and that keeps the whole product pointed in one direction. It also does not stop at describing the problem: the user designs an intervention and the platform estimates its cost and its savings, the shape a budget decision actually takes. Taking the top prize in the graduate track suggests the judging leaned on framing and follow-through rather than novel technology.
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