Vital Strategies partners with governments to rapidly design and implement public health initiatives. With their PreventEpidemics.org initiative, they sought a creative partner who could take on the challenge of displaying large amounts of data in a clear, concise way for a world-wide audience ranging from top-ranking government officials to the general population, high to basic education levels, already involved to desiring to act.
We designed and developed a site that is highly automated with maps, scores, and coloring changes dependent on data from just one easy-to-update spreadsheet. The site quickly identifies a country’s preparedness score, next steps, and status; pulls API feeds for current outbreak news; and drives users to take action in a way that is customized by country and preparedness status. And we made sure that this first-of-its-kind site gives new users a strong guide for what the site is, how it works, and what they should know with a brief guide to start out.