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GovEx Data PointsAuthor: GovEx Data Points
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#97 - Making Data Accessible: The BREATHE Center’s Lung Health Dashboard
Friday, 1 August, 2025
--- How can data storytelling improve health outcomes and save lives? The Lung Health Dashboard offers one example.--- Today’s episode explores how effective data storytelling connects the public with life-saving research, using the Lung Health Dashboard as an example. This project a collaboration between GovEx and the Johns Hopkins BREATHE Center, which promotes the science and medicine of lung health by interfacing with the community. The dashboard seeks to overcome the challenges of data communication through dynamic, “scrollytelling” visuals to provide research findings to viewers in a relatable perspective.--- We’re joined by Meredith McCormack, Director of the Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Division of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Director of the BREATHE Center; Kirsten Koehler, a professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Deputy Director of the BREATHE Center; and Mary Conway Vaughan, Deputy Director of Research and Analytics here at GovEx.--- Learn more about the BREATHE Center--- View the Lung Health Dashboard--- Learn more about GovEx--- Fill out our listener survey
