About the project
Project Overview
The FIGO platform serves as the definitive global "Knowledge Hub" for the world’s leading authority on women's health. Representing more than 130 national societies, the platform is engineered to bridge the gap between clinical research and frontline medical practice.
While scientific journals host raw data, FIGO’s digital ecosystem focuses on the critical "Implementation Phase"—transforming complex research into standardized staging systems, ethical guidelines, and educational resources used by clinicians in both high-resource and low-resource settings worldwide.
What the Website Does
The FIGO platform acts as a mission-critical tool for a global network of medical professionals, ensuring that life-saving information is accessible, translatable, and actionable.
- Translates global health research into practical clinical guidance that can be implemented in both high-resource and low-resource medical settings.
- Connects 130+ professional OBGYN societies, acting as a central advocacy engine for women's reproductive rights and health.
- Nurtures a global professional community by delivering tailored clinical news and event updates based on a member's specific area of expertise.
- Provides clinicians with the official FIGO Cancer Staging tables and ethical guidelines used in hospitals worldwide.
Key Numbers
- 130+ Member Societies: Connecting the primary professional bodies for OBGYNs worldwide.
- 15+ Clinical Committees: Dedicated expert groups producing global guidelines.
- 150+ Open-Access Resources: A digital library of staging tables and ethical position statements.
- 3 Major Newsletter Streams: Tailored Mailchimp channels for HQ News, Events, and the Fistula Project.
- 1 Centralized Hub: A unified strategy connecting clinical content, external learning, and event registration.
- Global Reach: Serving healthcare professionals in over 130 countries across 5 continents.
How It Was Built
1. Content Management
The platform features a modular content architecture that organizes thousands of clinical resources into a searchable, categorized library. This system allows for the integration of rich technical data—including interactive cancer staging tables, ethical position statements, and high-resolution clinical guidelines—ensuring that complex medical standards are broken down into digestible, accessible formats for healthcare professionals in over 130 countries.
2. External Ecosystem Integration:
The website acts as a centralised "Front Door," utilizing a unified global navigation to guide users seamlessly from clinical news to external Learning Management (LMS) and Congress Registration platforms.
3. Global Advocacy & News Engine
A specialised publishing workflow designed for rapid dissemination, allowing FIGO to publish global health position statements and open-access research across its 130+ member societies.
4. Automated Audience Engagement (Mailchimp)
The platform uses strategic sign-up forms and "Register your Interest" touchpoints to capture global professional data, which is synced directly with Mailchimp. This allows FIGO to manage a complex subscriber base by segmenting users into specific interest groups. Through automated email journeys, the system delivers hyper-relevant updates—such as the "Fistula Project" quarterly or "Global Events" weekly—ensuring the right clinical news reaches the right specialists at the right time.
5. Multilingual Content Framework:
Built to support a global audience, the CMS allows for the management of clinical resources in multiple languages to ensure accessibility in diverse healthcare settings.
Smart Features That Make It Work
Dynamic Resource Library
A technical repository that allows doctors in low-resource settings to quickly download offline-ready clinical guidance.
Automated Member Communications
The Mailchimp integration ensures that a surgeon interested in "Oncology" receives different updates than a midwife interested in "Maternal Health."
Interactive Staging Tables
Digital versions of the FIGO cancer staging systems that are easier to navigate on mobile devices in a clinical environment than traditional print versions.
The Result
FIGO has a modern, fully integrated global platform that:
- Elevates clinical standards by providing an authoritative, always up-to-date resource for news and guidelines.
- Empowers a global community of 130+ societies to stay connected through a single advocacy and education hub.
- Saves staff time by automating the syncing of supporter data and professional interests into the Mailchimp CRM.
- Delivers a tailored experience to each visitor, ensuring clinical news is relevant to their specific specialty and region.
Why Drupal was chosen
- Flexibility — The platform needed to do many things at once: run a charity website, process donations, host a learning portal, manage a clinical trials database, and sync to a CRM. Drupal could handle all of this within one system
- Control over who can do what — With a large team of editors across different departments, it was essential to give each person access to only what they needed. Drupal's permissions system made this straightforward to configure
- A proven foundation for online giving — Drupal's commerce tools provided a solid, extensible base for building the charity's donation flows, including support for custom payment methods like Direct Debit
- Performance at scale — Built-in caching and a powerful search engine keep the site fast even during busy fundraising campaigns
- Security — Enterprise-grade security controls meet the standards expected of a high-profile charity handling donor data and financial transactions
Technical Specifications
Drupal version:
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
- TMGMT + DeepL - Automates the translation of clinical guidelines into multiple languages for a global audience of medical professionals
- Search API + Facets - Provides fast, granular search and filtering for research, ethical guidelines, and publications across 130+ countries
- Paragraphs + Field Group - Enables a modular "Knowledge Hub" where editors can build complex, flexible page layouts without developer assistance
- Content Moderation - Manages a strict review and approval workflow for high-stakes medical and clinical documentation
- Geolocation + Google Maps - Maps and connects the global network of member societies and international medical centres
- Mailchimp + Webform - Handles professional outreach, member engagement, and global health advocacy campaigns
- Media Library + Focal Poin - Centralizes medical imagery and educational videos, ensuring optimal cropping and display on any device
