Our Work

The University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute has been ranking the health of Wisconsin counties for years. But when they wanted to take their analysis national, they turned to Forum One.

Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CountyHealthRankings.org provides the first look at the overall health of local communities across the country. While other studies have ranked entire states on health factors, this is the first to reveal the impact of multiple health factors in nearly every U.S. county.

CountyHealthRankings.org received substantial media attention including stories by CNN, MSNBC, Business Week, the Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, and hundreds of local media outlets. In the days immediately following its initial launch, the site served over 3,000 requests per second. In the year following launch, we continued to support the growth and expansion of the site to expand its performance and prominence.

We developed a major second release that further improved usability and data portability. This enhancement included a mobile web version of the site for fast consumption of data for users on-the-go. Again, NPR and other national media outlets applauded the effort to make health data easier to consume and use for decision making.

Ongoing, we play a major role in growing the site's visibility by supporting the site's Adwords campaigns and other marketing efforts.