Emory Global Health Institute: Turning Disparate Data into Actionable Insight
Client: Emory Global Health Institute
Duration: 3 Months
Year: 2025
The Challenge
Emory University’s Global Health Institute faced a key data dilemma: crucial metrics from field operations to funding streams were scattered across siloed systems. This fragmentation limited visibility, slowed decision-making, and undermined stakeholders’ ability to align projects with strategic goals or track progress in real time.
Our Solution
Yaberra Consulting unified these disparate data sources into a single, interactive Tableau dashboard. We performed a full data audit, centralized metrics in a standardized platform, and designed a clickable “Global Impact Map” that helped researchers and leaders see each project’s footprint, performance, and impact at a glance.
Project Scope
- Data audit across multiple teams and platforms
- Stakeholder interviews to define data priorities
- Cleaning, de-duplication, and standardization of records
- Tableau dashboard creation and prototyping
- Interactive design of a country-level impact map
Implementation Summary
We began by cataloging data sources and conducting stakeholder interviews to clarify objectives. From there, we launched a cleaning and deduplication process, consolidating relevant datasets into Tableau Salesforce. The goal: transform scattered information into a single source of truth for internal teams and leadership.
Our team built an interactive dashboard allowing users to explore research activities, funding channels, field outcomes, and geolocated program data. To bring this data to life, we prototyped a Global Impact Map, enabling users to click any country and view project-level insights. This design, developed in Adobe Creative Cloud, was met with enthusiastic buy-in during early demonstrations.
While the public rollout was postponed due to shifting priorities, the dashboard’s architecture remains scalable, making it easy to activate broader access when resources allow.
Key Accomplishments
Consolidated siloed data into one interactive dashboard
Increased visibility into global program performance and funding
Enabled easy exploration of field outcomes via clickable impact map
Delivered a scalable governance framework for future data intake
Earned leadership buy-in through functional prototypes
Positioned Emory for future public dashboard release
Before Versus After Snapshot
| Element | Before Project | After Project |
|---|---|---|
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Data Access |
Fragmented and inconsistent |
Unified, real-time Tableau dashboard |
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Strategic Alignment |
Difficult to correlate projects to regions, program type and funding |
Clear visual mapping of outputs and investments |
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Stakeholder Engagement |
Limited ability to see global impact |
Interactive, shareable data visualization tools |
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Data Governance and Visualization |
The data was primarily prepped for budgetary needs and lacked the standardization visual and quality and user-friendly access |
Structured intake, validation, and updated system to meet various departmental needs and visualization of projects
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Public Visibility |
Public Visibility |
Potential scalable foundation for eventual public rollout |
Key Takeaways For Future Projects
- A centralized dashboard eliminates inefficiencies in data access
- Visual mapping strengthens storytelling and stakeholder clarity
- Scalable systems ensure long-term sustainability and expansion
- Functional prototypes drive faster internal buy-in
- Data alignment is key to program and funding transparency
- Building infrastructure now accelerates future public engagement
Conclusion
Through smart data strategy and interactive design, Yaberra helped Emory Global Health Institute turn fragmented metrics into a tool for insight and alignment. The resulting dashboard not only simplifies decision-making today—it lays a scalable foundation for transparent, global health leadership tomorrow