Surgo Health

Product: Mosaic^TM

Industry & Function: Public Sector & Philanthropy - Policy

Summary

Surgo Health's Mosaic™, a geospatial intelligence platform, includes its Maternal Vulnerability Index (MVI) data library, which gives Southern Alliance for Public Health Leadership (SAPHL) a geographic lens that raw mortality counts can't provide on their own. SAPHL uses Mosaic to pinpoint which communities are most vulnerable and why, then cross-references those findings against outside benchmarks to build a comprehensive picture for coalition members and policymakers. This combination turns population-level indices into an actionable map of where need is concentrated and who's affected.

Why Geographic Data Matters for Advocacy Organizations

Standard mortality and prevalence statistics tell coalitions that a problem exists, but not where it is concentrated or why it persists. By pairing MVI's drivers with granular geographic analysis in Mosaic, Surgo Health helps organizations like SAPHL:

Pinpoint specific communities where need is most acute
Cross-validate findings against independent state-level benchmarks
Build the evidence base for "small-p" policy — educating agencies, legislators, and health professionals before a formal legislative ask exists
Support partnership expansion to new states with an existing, comparable data framework

Mosaic turns index-level insight into a tool coalitions can use to identify, and eventually close, specific gaps.

Challenge

Mortality-based measures are too coarse, and too small in absolute numbers, to guide state-level advocacy work. SAPHL needed a way to see beneath aggregate mortality and prevalence figures to identify exactly which communities face the greatest barriers to maternal and child health, and to separate provider deserts from other underlying drivers — a distinction that determines what kind of policy fix is even possible.

Approach

SAPHL layers MVI's vulnerability drivers, accessed through Mosaic, with granular geographic analysis to map where need is concentrated. The team cross-references this against outside sources, such as Georgetown Center for Children and Families' state reports on well-visit and vaccination rates, to validate and sharpen the picture. The result feeds directly into SAPHL's own advocacy materials and coalition briefings, and now into state-by-state reports on topics such as barriers to Medicaid access for mothers and infants.

Results

Before Mosaic	With Mosaic
Advocacy relied primarily on mortality and prevalence statistics to demonstrate need	Combined MVI's vulnerability drivers with geospatial intelligence to build a stronger evidence base for educating policymakers, agencies, and health professionals before legislative action
Limited visibility into the underlying barriers affecting Medicaid access for mothers and infants	Identified community-level barriers to Medicaid access using MVI's social drivers and Mosaic's geographic analytics, informing state-specific policy priorities
Difficult to apply a consistent analytical approach as the coalition expanded into new states	Used a repeatable, scalable approach to identify priority communities and support advocacy efforts across an expanding multi-state footprint

By combining MVI's vulnerability drivers with Mosaic's geospatial intelligence, SAPHL transformed population-level data into actionable evidence for policy advocacy. The result was a more targeted, scalable approach to identify priority communities, shape policy agendas, and support maternal and child health across multiple states.

See How Mosaic Enables More Targeted Policy Decisions

Go beyond population-level statistics with geographic intelligence that uncovers where needs are greatest and why. Mosaic helps organizations prioritize communities, inform policy, and allocate resources more effectively.

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