Field-Defining Research
GovEx’s Research and Analytics team develops and deploys tools that help leaders solve and serve.
Coronavirus Resource Center
In 2020, GovEx’s Research and Analytics team led a university-wide effort to develop, deploy, and maintain Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC). The CRC became the world’s most trusted surveillance tool for reliable, real-time data about the pandemic, with millions of users and more than a billion views. The dashboard demonstrated how a full spectrum of stakeholders from residents and employers to school administrators, health care, transportation, and law enforcement leaders all accessed data on an almost daily basis to make informed decisions.
City AI Connect
City AI Connect is a global learning community and digital platform for cities to trial and advance the usage of generative artificial intelligence to improve public services. City AI Connect was established by Bloomberg Philanthropies in collaboration with the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) at Johns Hopkins University.
To maximize the potential and expand the availability of generative artificial intelligence learning for local governments, City AI Connect offers local officials a single destination to ideate, develop, and test new utilizations with peers across cities. Its purpose is to strengthen the human effort necessary to manage and deploy generative artificial intelligence in city halls, not to replace it.
Through social networking features, digital forums, virtual events, and a repository of blueprints and resources, city leaders have the opportunity to exchange strategies and work with data and technology experts brought together by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University to accelerate implementation in their city halls.
In addition to the platform for cities to share their efforts with one another, City AI Connect has the potential to make aggregated data, anonymized case studies, and the latest insights and trends from localities trialing or pioneering generative AI publicly available.
Other Recent Research and Analytics Projects
In the wake of food insecurity that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic and the supply chain disruptions it caused, GovEx collaborated with the Center for a Liveable Future to produce a Food System Resilience Planning Guide to help cities use data to evaluate and strengthen their food systems.
In collaboration with Johns Hopkins University’s Bridging Research, Lung Health, and the Environment (BREATHE) Center, GovEx created a website that uses engaging interactive data visualizations to explain the different factors that cause asthma and how residents can take action using Baltimore City as an example, based on the BREATHE Center’s published research.
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GovEx has a track record of working with cities to implement strategies and policy interventions that lead to equitable outcomes and transform the standard of living for residents.
Baltimore
GovEx’s work in Baltimore, the organization's home base, includes many evidence-based governance projects through four mayoral administrations.