key: cord-0744118-j36olxxf authors: Malecki, Kristen M. C.; Nikodemova, Maria; Schultz, Amy A.; LeCaire, Tamara J.; Bersch, Andrew J.; Cadmus-Bertram, Lisa; Engelman, Corinne D.; Hagen, Erika; McCulley, Laura; Palta, Mari; Rodriguez, Allison; Sethi, Ajay K.; Walsh, Matt C.; Nieto, F. Javier; Peppard, Paul E. title: The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) Program: An Infrastructure for Advancing Population Health date: 2022-03-31 journal: Front Public Health DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.818777 sha: bb8f3c9fb224d359ac6085a01169f6dac8f18f1b doc_id: 744118 cord_uid: j36olxxf INTRODUCTION: The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) was established in 2008 by the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) with the goals of (1) providing a timely and accurate picture of the health of the state residents; and (2) serving as an agile resource infrastructure for ancillary studies. Today, the SHOW program continues to serve as a unique and vital population health research infrastructure for advancing public health. METHODS: SHOW currently includes 5,846 adult and 980 minor participants recruited between 2008 and 2019 in four primary waves. WAVE I (2008–2013) includes annual statewide representative samples of 3,380 adults ages 21 to 74 years. WAVE II (2014–2016) is a triannual statewide sample of 1,957 adults (age ≥18 years) and 645 children (age 0–17). WAVE III (2017) consists of follow-up of 725 adults from the WAVE I and baseline surveys of 222 children in selected households. WAVEs II and III include stool samples collected as part of an ancillary study in a subset of 784 individuals. WAVE IV consists of 517 adults and 113 children recruited from traditionally under-represented populations in biomedical research including African Americans and Hispanics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. FINDINGS TO DATE: The SHOW resource provides unique spatially granular and timely data to examine the intersectionality of multiple social determinants and population health. SHOW includes a large biorepository and extensive health data collected in a geographically diverse urban and rural population. Over 60 studies have been published covering a broad range of topics including, urban and rural disparities in cardio-metabolic disease and cancer, objective physical activity, sleep, green-space and mental health, transcriptomics, the gut microbiome, antibiotic resistance, air pollution, concentrated animal feeding operations and heavy metal exposures. DISCUSSION: The SHOW cohort and resource is available for continued follow-up and ancillary studies including longitudinal public health monitoring, translational biomedical research, environmental health, aging, microbiome and COVID-19 research. Findings to Date: The SHOW resource provides unique spatially granular and timely data to examine the intersectionality of multiple social determinants and population health. SHOW includes a large biorepository and extensive health data collected in a geographically diverse urban and rural population. Over 60 studies have been published covering a broad range of topics including, urban and rural disparities in cardio-metabolic disease and cancer, objective physical activity, sleep, green-space and mental health, transcriptomics, the gut microbiome, antibiotic resistance, air pollution, concentrated animal feeding operations and heavy metal exposures. Established in 2008 the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) (1) is a one-of-a-kind resource for innovative, cuttingedge population health sciences. Funded by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health endowment funds, SHOW provides a unique resource to address key gaps to advance population health and translational research. Since its inception, the SHOW program has addressed numerous Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health 3.0 recommendations for gathering multilevel data on key social determinants of health and engaged multiple stakeholders and community partners to generate collective impact (2) . The widespread and unequitable impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provide a spotlight on the population health challenges facing both the United States and the global community in the 21st Century. Particularly alarming in the United States was an acceleration of persistent ongoing disparities across and within communities contributing to a 10-fold difference and reduction in life expectancy across the United States. In 2016, the United States CDC called for a new Public Health 3.0 approach to tackle public health challenges in the modern era (2) . The new approach calls for multisectoral partnerships necessary to address the social, environmental and economic forces shaping population health. This call to action among public health leaders is analogous to the ongoing movement among population health scientists to identify and address the multiple social determinants of health within health care and community settings. Recommendations in both population health sciences and public health include the need for more detailed and timely data for public health practitioners, health care providers, community leaders and policy makers. More data on geographical levels are also necessary to support cost effective programming. This more granular data can also be used to better address community-specific social, environment and economic factors driving health and health equity. While several national level surveys exist, sub-population-below state level-data are not often available to describe the unique sub-population differences in social determinants of health and how they change over time and space within and across communities. Using the entire state population of Wisconsin as a sampling frame, SHOW provides a unique level of granularity to study the health status of individuals and social determinants of health across rural and urban contexts. More recently, focused recruitment efforts have aimed to expand the core study population to include children and increase the racial, ethnic and socio-economic diversity of the study population. Other distinctive elements of SHOW include the geographically diverse study population, the breadth of objective and biological data collected, the ability to link social and environmental contextual data, and the flexibility of the program to support translational science and health equity research. To date, no other statewide study sample exists. From its inception, SHOW aimed to capture multi-level determinants of data to examine proximate and distal factors shaping health and wellbeing. Detailed data on household address and residential history can be integrated with objective health and biomarker data to advance understanding of how protective and adverse physical and social environments impact biological mechanisms underlying aging trajectories and shape health and wellbeing in a geographically diverse population. Core funding for SHOW is provided by the Wisconsin Partnership Program and additional ancillary funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, among others. Scientific direction is provided by experts in population health research from across the entire University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, including a Scientific Advisory Board. Field data collection continues today with numerous opportunities for investigators to inform longitudinal follow-up and clinical collaborations including opportunities for linkage with electronic health records and other administrative data. SHOW was not originally designed with a specific set of hypotheses in mind but with a broader mission to improve understanding of the multi-level determinants of health and equity, originally emphasizing chronic diseases in adult populations. The core survey contents were therefore determined using a social determinants of health framework. Unique elements of the SHOW design included physical examination combined with interview and bio-specimen collection. Table 1 outlines the breadth of questionnaire, physical exam and biomarker data collected among SHOW participants. Whenever possible, questions were selected from previously validated questionnaires. Several ancillary study projects have been done in collaboration with community partners who have extracted a smaller number of survey questions important for goals and dissemination. The core infrastructure values community engagement in all aspects of ancillary study development. Thus, the protocols are flexible enough to add new collection tools relevant to study hypotheses as needed (3). Since 2008, the SHOW program has conducted as a series of cross-section and longitudinal surveys on the health status of individuals and social determinants of health. The target study population includes a representative sample of state residents with focused sub-population analyses among largely under-represented populations. The full study sample includes 5,846 adult (ages 18 years and over) and 980 minor (age 0-17 years) participants. Figure 1 outlines the recruitment efforts and samples sizes across each study wave. WAVE IV included additional community-engagement and community led recruitment of under-represented Black and Hispanic residents living in Milwaukee, the most highly urbanized community in the state. SHOW protocols aim to provide consistency across each wave of data and biosample collection. All procedures for data collection follow-strict quality assurance and quality control guidelines. Table 3 describes the various recruitment strategies and eligibility criteria across waves. Diverse state and local partnerships, ongoing community engagement, a detailed website, newsletters and data briefs support recruitment and retention of the cohort. Supplementary Table 1A shows improvement in response rates, measured as number of participants screened eligible willing to participate in the program, over time, by health region and 10 counties that correspond to each health region. Health regions are defined as geographic clusters of counties within a public health service area defined by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Supplementary Table 1B Supplementary Table 1B shows response rates by urbanicity as defined by the U.S. Census. Details regarding the design and data collection for each SHOW wave are briefly described below. interviews, self-administered questionnaire, physical exam, and biosample collection). Survey weights that incorporate design weights and adjustments for non-response and poststratification, calibrated to the U.S. Census 2010 population totals by age, sex and race, improve the representativeness of statewide estimates, and design variables account for spatial clustering in the sample design. WAVE II, SHOW 2014-2016, provided a newly recruited prospective tri-annual statewide representative sample of 1,957 adults (age ≥18 years) and 645 children (<18 years of age). Demographic data for the adult sample are presented in Table 2B while children are presented in Table 2C . Eligibility criteria for WAVE II expanded to add children (<18). Adult participants of any age, with ability to individually consent without cognitive or other impairments were also included. All other exclusion criteria were consistent with WAVE I. Similar to WAVE I, an area probability sampling design was used to randomly select households, where all eligible household members were invited to participate. Unlike WAVE I, the two-stage sampling design was modified to three-stages with county as the primary sampling unit (PSU) rather than Census block group (CBG) in WAVE II. The statewide representative sample became a tri-annual rather than annual sample. Eight PSUs, stratified by years of potential life lost, were randomly selected with probabilities proportional to size where the measure of size was occupied housing units. Two counties (Milwaukee and Dane) were selected with certainty (probability of selection = 1) based on their large number of occupied housing units relative to the other counties. CBGs served as secondary sampling units with poverty stratification, and households within each CBG were randomly selected using simple random sampling. Response rates were slightly higher on average in WAVE II with 64% of screened eligible individuals agreeing to participate (see Supplementary Table 1B) . This higher response rate was attributed to additional focus on identifying field interviewers representative of the targeted community, and additional focus on community engagement and awareness campaigns, including endorsement by local officials prior to recruitment. Finally, we aimed to improve the ease of exam visits and sample collection by identifying exam visit locations in places of worship, or other locally respected locations that were convenient and centrally located for study participants. Design variables that account for clustering in the sampling design and survey weights based on design weights adjusted for non-response and calibrated to the U.S. Census Current Population Survey 2016 estimates by age, sex and race are available for WAVE II. WAVE III included longitudinal follow-up of n=725 adults from WAVE I (see Table 2B ) and baseline participation of 222 children (see Table 2C ). The eligibility criteria for WAVE III were participation in WAVE I, consent to be contacted by SHOW for future studies, WAVE I residents in 13 select counties cover the full spectrum of urbanicity and county health rankings across Wisconsin. For Non-Hispanic white participants, additional eligibility criteria were completion of the physical examination and biomarker collection in Wave I. All children currently residing in follow-up participant households were also eligible. WAVE III follow-up included an in-home interview, physical exam, core biospecimen collection (blood, urine) and stool and skin swabs collection for microbiome analysis funded via ancillary study funding described below. Followup participation rate, determined based on number of those contacted who agreed to participate again, was estimated at 86% (see Table 3 ). Survey weights were not generated for WAVE III since it was not a random subsample of WAVE I. In 2018-2019 SHOW focused on engaging and recruiting participants from two traditionally under-represented populations in biomedical research including an oversample of 440 Black (339 adult and 101 minor) and 131 Hispanic (125 adult and six minor) participants living in and around the City of Milwaukee (see Table 2B for demographic details on adults and for Table 2C minors). Unlike in WAVES I and II, both two-stage area probability sampling and community engaged convenience sampling approaches using community-based events were employed as primary recruitment strategies. The two-stage area probability sampling design was analogous to WAVE I, with the exception that the PSU sampling frame was restricted to 236 CBGs in the City of Milwaukee with populations of at least 60% African Americans based on the American Community Survey from 2015. Alternative convenience-based recruitment strategies were developed collaboratively with and in response to community partners' interests in using an asset-based, community-driven model to guide research in the City of Milwaukee. Collaborations were led by investigators with the University of Wisconsin Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships (CCEHP) (4). The partnerships and stakeholders informed all aspects of recruitment, including promotion opportunities, use of community events and modifications to survey content relevant to stakeholder interests. Survey elements were modified for use in Hispanic populations and Spanish translation of the final survey content approved by CCEHP partner organizations. Survey weights are not available for WAVE IV due to the hybrid nature of the sampling approach. The in-home visit by field interviewers includes computerassisted personal interviews (CAPI) to gather information on health history and important covariates such as occupation, home environment, health care access, medication use, and demographics (1). Several self-administered questionnaires either on paper or increasingly offered online are used to gather detailed information capturing a broad array of social determinants including food security and economic hardship, personal and family medical history, mental health and wellbeing, quality of life, every day and lifetime racial and other discrimination, life evets, resilience, and coping scales. A neighborhood perceptions questionnaire captures community assets and perceived neighborhood stressors. A personal exposure history (5-7), includes information on residential history, household characteristics including the age of the home, pet ownership, use of indoor/outdoor pesticides, and smoking policies and water source (private well vs. municipal) (8) including use of water filtration. Health behaviors include physical activity, diet, sleep, smoking, and drug and alcohol use. Diet information are captured using both the NCI food frequency questionnaire (all WAVES) and the 24-h dietary recall. In addition to survey data, participants undergo a brief physical exam that includes standardized measurements of blood pressure, weight, height, waist and hip circumference, respiratory function, and collection of blood and urine samples. Weight is measured in kilograms (to a precision of ±0.1 kg) using digital scales with subjects wearing light clothing or surgical scrubs. Height, hip and waist circumference (all in cm) are measured twice. Sitting blood pressure and heart rate are measured using digital blood monitors with three measurements taken 1 min apart after an initial 5-min rest period. Lung function is assessed by spirometry using a Jaeger AM1+ electronic peak flow meter with filter mouthpiece. Testing provides data on FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in 1 s) and FVC (forced vital capacity). Objective physical activity and sleep data are obtained using wearable technology. A detailed protocol for participant 7day hip and wrist protocol using ActiGraph wGT3X-BT accelerometers (ActiGraph, Pensacola, FL) was developed for both adults, and children >6 years. Data are processed and analyzed using ActiLife software. Both raw and processed data are made available to investigators. All participants providing biological samples are also asked to consent for use of these biological samples for DNA analyses and other future unspecified research. Biological samples, including plasma, serum, urine, DNA, and stool are stored in SHOW's 11 freezers managed by Freezerworks. The growing biobank includes over 200,000 cryovials of urine, plasma, serum, PaxGene and DNA samples stored at −80C for future unspecified research. Following an in-home visit, biological samples are collected either in participant homes or at local exam centers. Several tubes of venous blood (about 55-60 ml in total) are collected and immediately processed for serum and plasma, aliquoted into cryovials and frozen at −80C. A blood aliquot is sent to Marshfield Labs (Marshfield, WI) for complete blood cell count with differential, hematocrit, hemoglobin, HbA1c, glucose, creatinine, triglycerides, total and HDL cholesterol. Blood samples are sent to Prevention Genetics (Marshfield, WI) for DNA extraction. Urine samples are centrifuged, aliquoted into cryovials and frozen. Starting in 2014, PAXgene tubes for RNA extraction were added to the collection protocol and stool microbiome collection began in 2016. Stool specimens are self-collected using a commercial "toilet hat" collection kit within 12 h of the exam visit. Our current studies have over 95% adherence to this selfcollection protocol, including shipping specimens in the correct containers and temperature. DNA from a subset of n=650 participants were analyzed by the NIH Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR). The program provided genome-wide MEGA chip array data for identification of SNP polymorphisms, and DNA methylation for epigenetic analyses. The same subset of 650 individuals also have stool microbiome data available. All methods are well-documented through meta-data and online codebooks to ensure rigor and reproducibility over time. Statistical analyses included here include descriptive crosssectional findings. Use of different statistical methods and approaches are applied as appropriate depending on study aims and research goals. Standard analytic approaches applied to SHOW data include correlation, ANOVA, and multivariate linear and logistic regression analyses. Longitudinal generalized linear models and spline regression have also been employed. The core SHOW study is approved by the University of Wisconsin Health Sciences Institutional Review Board and all biosecurity and institutional safety procedures are HIPAA compliant. All data and specimens collected on human subjects in the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin are protected from technical and physical loss or damage and from disclosure of identifiable data from the initial point of collection through interim storage, transport, transmissions, downloads, processing, final storage, and distribution of datasets and specimens. All ancillary studies and data requests are also required to obtain appropriate IRB approval prior to data release. Trained field interviewers review consent documents and checklists to assure that participants are informed of all aspects of survey participation prior to consent. Participants may choose to not answer any questions and that they are not required to complete all SHOW components. Incentives for the participation in the program are offered and vary by completion of each survey component. Anonymous feedback forms with self-addressed stamped envelopes are provided to participants following completion of the survey. The longitudinal nature of SHOW also allows for tracking trends over time in the population. Participants are allowed to opt out of data sharing for future unspecified research and can opt out of any future participation. The majority (>90%) of past participants consent for data and biological samples (urine, blood and DNA) to be used for future unspecified research. SHOW has also obtained an NIH Certificate of Confidentiality, to further ensure data will not be shared for reasons outside the original scope of the survey. All participants are geocoded to the household address level that can link to social and environmental data at multiple geographic scales. In addition, all participants are consented for linkage with administrative databases including vital statistics and state cancer registry data. Ongoing efforts are being made to reconsent participants for linkage with electronic medical records and for deposition of genetic and epigenetic analyses into NIH dbGaP database. Socio-demographic and environmental measures can be linked to the data using a street address or other geography indicators (e.g., CBG). The breadth and nature of data collected by the SHOW program allows for multidisciplinary research on social determinants of health and numerous outcomes. Focus areas to date include food security, health care access, diet, physical activity, alcohol and drug consumption, prevention behaviors, economics, the built environment including urban and rural exposures, and social and community capital. Outcomes relate to aging, chronic disease, mental health, and other health determinants. They include markers of cardio-metabolic disease (HbA1c, lung function, microbiome), cancer, stress, anxiety, depression and PTSD, cancer prevention and control (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) . Tables 4A,B describe key findings on health status for WAVES I and II and WAVES II and IV respectively, Supplementary Table 2 highlights the distribution of questionnaires by survey wave. The complete list of over 60 publications is available at www.med.wisc.edu/show. A summary of key findings including those related to COVID-19 follow. The diverse urban and rural study sample facilitates novel environmental studies examining how psychosocial and physical environments intersect and determine population vulnerability and susceptibility to exposures (14, 16) . Objective and subjective measures of physical activity and the built environment continue to support novel methods for behavioral and built environment research in both child and adult populations (20) (21) (22) (23) . SHOW was among the first to examine associations between green space and mental health, now a growing area of research (9) . We found that a positive neighborhood perception and green space correlate with better sleep quality (24, 25) . Moreover, exposure to chronic low-level air pollution has shown adverse associations with lung function and respiratory allergies, which also vary by perception of neighborhood safety and aesthetics (14, 16) . Similarly, residential proximity to large dairy concentrated animal feeding operations was also associated with reduced lung function in adults and children (9, 25) . Studies using SHOW data have also found populations vulnerable to drinking water contaminants due to limited testing and private well stewardship (8) . A follow-up survey of private well-owners in rural communities found limited knowledge and resources to be barriers to well testing, an evidence-based strategy for identifying adverse environmental exposures in drinking water (8) . SHOW also supports comprehensive assessment of multilevel determinants of health and health equity. Common determinants of inequalities are associated with perceived neighborhood safety and aesthetics, access to healthy food and the food retail environment, health care access, oral health and experiences of discrimination (10, 13, 14) . Food insecurity has been shown to be prevalent across the entire study population associated with economic hardship in both urban and rural communities and has been associated with several adverse metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes (15, 26) . In addition to the statewide representative sample, the SHOW program has made a concerted effort to engage with and recruit from populations traditionally under-represented in biomedical research. In 2018-2019, SHOW conducted focused recruitment to increase the number of African American and Latino participants (27) . Compared to the SHOW statewide cancer survivorship prevalence of 12%, the 2018-2019 sample of largely African Americans had a lower prevalence of cancer survivorship, around 9%. At the same time, this group was younger and more likely than the statewide representative sample to identify themselves as a current or former smoker (53% compared to 45% statewide). While further analysis is needed, these trends highlight important trends and sub-population analyses can support future health equity research. A primary goal of the SHOW program is to support health equity using an asset based vs. deficit lense (4), suggesting that within traditionally under-served and marginalized communities, there are tremendous strengths, building on strengths while reducing structural barriers identified in SHOW is a key to advancing health equity. Objective measures of obesity indicate that over 70% of the state population is overweight or obese, and that a higher level of obesity is correlated with multiple co-morbidities (19) . Numerous studies examine predictors of obesity, and determinants of metabolic syndrome in the SHOW population (11, 13, 15, 19, 22, 28) . Obesity has also been shown to modify associations of respiratory outcomes with air pollution and smoking exposure in the study sample, suggesting SHOW is a valuable resource for examining the role of obesity in increasing human susceptibility to environmental exposures and the biological mechanisms underlying these associations. Cancer prevention is also a key state health priority with significant disparities. SHOW data have been used by to examine cancer risk factors and policies toward cancer prevention and control including awareness and adherence of radon and private well testing in homes (8, 29) , physical activity in both children and adults (21, 23, 30) . SHOW's biorespository facilitates research on biological effects of multiple social determinants of health and interim or novel biomarkers of response. Whole blood has been used to examine influences of caregiver strain on telomere length (31) (32) (33) and ongoing investigations are examining residential disadvantage on accelerated biological aging and DNA methylation. Analysis of whole blood mRNA levels revealed differential gene expression in stress and toxicity pathways in obese smokers compared to non-obese smokers (34) . Plasma, serum, microbiome and mRNA data can also support future metabolomic, lipodomic and transcriptomic research in this well-characterized sample. All of this can support novel exposomic research related to numerous outcomes and phenotypes. The program also offers opportunities for both informing health policy and measuring the impact of natural experiments related to significant policy changes (12) . SHOW data on use of opioids, and children's screen time have appeared in state policy briefings used to advocate for more comprehensive programs. SHOW surveys have also been used to inform communitydriven health assessments, (35) to implement healthy eating interventions (36, 37) , and to objectively assess the social and built environment (22) , Great Lakes fish consumption, and oral health equity (38) (39) (40) Since its inception, numerous ancillary studies have either extended the focus of the baseline SHOW program or facilitated follow-up with cohort participants around particular etiologic, prevention or intervention research questions. Multi-disciplinary research teams and community partners have amplified SHOW's impact over the years through diverse ancillary studies. Examples include personalized vitamin D supplementation based on genetic analysis (42) , impacts of caregiver strain on telomere length and quality of life (31) (32) (33) , assessment of physical activity in rural women (23, 30) , and incontinence research in older women (43) . Other ancillary studies have examined how the household context impacts personal health information management (44) (45) (46) , analyzed chronic stress and cardiometabolic risk (14, 47) , and found epigenetic signatures of aging and health disparities, among others. SHOW also supports applied public health and surveillance at the state and local level. Examples of projects with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services include oral health screening (18, 38) , as well as a long-standing collaboration to examine the health impacts of Great Lakes fish consumption across the state, among anglers and in high-risk populations (e.g., Burmese immigrants) (39, 40, (48) (49) (50) (51) . By tapping into an existing infrastructure, investigators can save time and money and accelerate translational research by supporting multi-disciplinary collaborations. For example, basic science researchers examined branched chain amino acids in 788 human plasma samples (52) . Using existing SHOW nutrition, BMI and biosample data, what is typically a costly 5 year study was conducted in 6 months (52) . Investigators may use sub-samples of data for new biomarker discovery, comparing biomarker levels from disease free SHOW participants (controls) to clinical patients (cases). Similarly, analyses can examine impacts of exposure among subsets of exposed and non-exposed. For example, transcriptional profiling in a sub-sample of 180 smokers and non-smokers with objectively measured BMI found differential expression of toxic and stress related genes in obese vs. non-obese smokers (34) . These translational findings highlight how obesity itself may alter gene expression, increasing vulnerability to environmental threat and findings have implications for therapeutic treatments. Ancillary studies using the SHOW infrastructure aid basic scientists, clinicians, public health professionals and community leaders in advancing population health in Wisconsin and beyond. For example, clinical investigators used the ongoing collection and follow-up mailings of past participants to examine preferences for receiving information and education on urinary incontinence among women (43) . Findings were used to design a follow-up feasibility study needed to inform future implementation research. Ancillary study funding supported expansion of biological sample collection to include stool, nasal, and skin swabs for microbiome analyses. The Wisconsin Microbiome Study was launched in 2016 to investigate the presence of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) and to characterize the human microbiome in the population (53) . SHOW added questionnaires on risk factors for MDRO colonization, diet history, and food-frequency. Stool and swab samples (skin, nasal, oral) were collected from 700 participants and analyzed for MDRO colonization; 16s rRNA gene sequencing data are available for all stool samples collected from this project (53) . In 2018, a subset (59%) of Wisconsin Microbiome Study participants were invited to complete a follow-up visit. Stool and environmental samples (high-touch surface swab, household dust, and soil samples) were collected and are available for future analyses (54) . Additional NIH research funded by the National Institutes of Aging and The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases are ongoing. The Wisconsin Microbiome Ancillary Study in children and adults demonstrated the role of xenobiotics and other settings in shaping the human gut microbiome and increased risk for MDRO colonization (53, 55, 56) . This represents an important and novel area for metabolic, aging and population health research. As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in the United States, SHOW shifted efforts toward two specific research efforts which are described in more detail elsewhere (57, 58) . In brief, the SHOW program partnered with Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene to conduct antibody surveillance among WAVE II participants (57, 58) . The SHOW program also conducted online surveys of COVID-19 impacts on health and wellbeing over time (May-June, 2020; January-February, 2021; and May-June 2021) among all past SHOW participants. Unique data on subpopulation differences in antibody prevalence and vaccine hesitency were detected as part of the antibody surveillance efforts. Data from the online COVID-19 impact survey highlight the role that exisitng social determiants, including access to care, disabilities, and community capital, played in shaping disparities in COVID-19 testing and adverse economic consequences (57) . This important research effort has also allowed SHOW scientists to gather critical information for continuing longitudinal follow-up of the SHOW cohort. SHOW is a one-of-a-kind resource and infrastructure for accelerating population health science research that has made a tremendous impact in advancing health and health equity in Wisconsin and beyond. Over one hundred peer review or other policy briefs and publications have emanated from the project. Peer-review publications range from basic descriptions of key health determinants (e.g., green-space, obesity, food security) across diverse communities (e.g., urban, suburban and rural), to identification and analyses of complex and previously understudied social determinants (e.g., industrial cow farming). Policy makers have also used data for a variety of policy briefs, including data to support screen time and mental health in children, reduce physical activity barriers for rural women, and advancing cancer prevention and control. Finally, as the resource continues to grow, several local health agencies have partnered with SHOW to identify unique data elements and fill important data gaps for more detailed and robust community health needs assessments. Ongoing community engagement supports opportunities for future community-based intervention work. The rapid response of SHOW investigators and longstanding partnerships with state health agencies to advance the COVID-19 response in Wisconsin and beyond, demonstrates the importance for maintaining such population health resources to address pressing public health priorities at a state and national level. When the pandemic began in early 2020, SHOW mobilized a series of three waves of longitudinal followup using online surveys and antibody surveillance to track impacts of COVID-19 over time within and across this study cohort. The study was facilitated by strong community-academic partnerships, ongoing relationships, and the unique expertise of the SHOW program staff in designing and supporting community-based sample collection. Thus, SHOW embodies all elements necessary to support population health sciences in the 21st century. Unique strengths of the program include its well-designed geographically diverse study population, high quality and variable measures of social determinants of health, and carefully designed biorespository. Rigorous sampling strategies, and recruitment methods are employed to gather a breadth of data (over 2,000 variables). Geographic identifiers allow for linkage with community census and other social or environmental data. The biological samples collected from a nonclinical a non-clinical study sample are critical for advancing translational research from bench or clinic to community. This is particularly true for analysis of environmental exposure, and response to advance multi-omic and exposomic projects. The potential for long-term follow-up also enables new investigations of biological mechanisms of aging and health disparities across the life-course. With an average cohort age of 44 at baseline, the SHOW sample includes a significant number of genetically related (parent-child; siblings) and unrelated (husband-wife) participants with similar exposures or lifestyles. This sample structure allows unique opportunities to study genes, environment and family dynamics across the lifecourse. New efforts in data integration, and method validation are also possible. With participating consent for use of data for future unspecified research and linkages with administrative data, numerous opportunities to expand core data. Ongoing research includes linkages with vital statistics, state cancer registry, and existing community level data. Increasingly new models of research are looking toward electronic health records for understanding health trajectories over time. Despite significant strengths of the program, it is not without limitations. Conducting SHOW as a comprehensive population-based survey is both resource-and time-intensive. SHOW's sampling strategy was designed to ensure a statewide representative sample leading to both logistical and monetary costs. Although the resulting sample characteristics may be a strength for many types of epidemiological studies, it may be a limitation for other studies requiring a more substantial proportion of non-white participants, as the vast majority of state residents are white and <12% of the state's total population self-identifies as non-white. SHOW has recognized this limitation and in 2018-2019 conducted additional recruitment in more racially and ethnically diverse urban communities. Working in collaboration with communities requires long standing partnerships, trusted relationships and new approaches to sampling design and recruitment. These differences make some analyses of statewide data difficult. At the same time, working directly with communities offers new opportunities to for understanding data trends and for effectively promoting health and wellbeing. Data are available for qualified investigators upon request, including the analytic files used to generate data in this manuscript. A fee for service model may apply for access to restricted data beyond that which is currently publicly available at www.show.wisc.edu. The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by the University of Wisconsin Health Services Institutional Review Board. Written informed consent to participate in this study was provided by all adult participants. For all minor participants, legal guardians provided written informed consent. Assent from the minors was also gathered when possible. KM is the program Principal Investigator and is accountable for all aspects of the work and will ensure that all questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. MN, TL, and AAS were involved in initial drafts of the manuscript. AR and LM supported edits for clarity and content accuracy. KM, TL, MN, AB, CE, and FN were responsible for drafting this manuscript or revising it critically for important content. All authors contributed to the planning, conduct of the SHOW cohort including contributions to the design, and acquisition or analysis of the work. The authors would like to thank the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, SHOW administrative, field, and scientific staff, as well as all the SHOW participants for their contributions. A special thanks to the SHOW Scientific Advisory Board and SHOW core scientists for supporting scientific direction of the program. Further special thanks to numerous community partners including David Frazer with the Center for Urban Population Health, Al Castro and the Health Research Ambassador Team at the United Community Center, Gina Green-Harris and Dr. Nia Norris at the Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships, as well as the UW Collaborative Center for Health Equity for their support in ongoing community engagement and health equity research. Finally, thank you to continued support from applied public health practitioners and community leaders across the state of Wisconsin for their ongoing support of SHOW and service to public health. Finally, authors would like to thank the numerous undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Wisconsin who have supported SHOW throughout the years, in particular Erin Bakkum who contributed to review of the article. 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