Ideas for my dissertation are stirring. Right now though, they serve as the basis for a literature review--data management and medical decision-making and sub-Saharan Africa. I'm in awe of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for all the work they've already done with this. So dope!
In 2009, DDCF awarded five grants to support Population Health Implementation & Training (PHIT) Partnerships in Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. Research conducted by each PHIT Partnership is measuring the impact of the interventions on improving health systems performance and reducing child mortality and other health outcomes.
Accordingly, the Partnerships are participating in a Data Collaborative to promote cross-site sharing and global learning. The Data Collaborative is led by a central coordinating body referred to as the Data Coordinator. The Data Coordinator serves as a technical resource to the Partnerships, ensuring that each collects a set of comparable measures, or “core metrics.” The Data Coordinator is also working towards facilitating public access to data; helping identify lessons learned across the Partnerships; promoting the communication of research findings to the wider community; and when appropriate, coordinating PHIT Partnership data collection and analysis with efforts supported by other organizations. A team led by Dr. Robert Black and Dr. Jennifer Bryce at the Institute for International Programs (IIP) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is serving as the Data Coordinator.
- Tanzania PHIT Partnership
- PHIT Data Collaborative
- Improving health information systems for decision making across five sub-Saharan African countries: Implementation strategies from the African Health Initiative
- A Common Evaluation Framework for the African Health Initiative
- Approaches to ensuring and improving quality in the context of health system strengthening: a cross-site analysis of the five African Health Initiative Partnership programs.
- Implementing health system change: What are the lessons from the African Health Initiative?
- PHIT Partnership Data Collaborative: Principles, Policies, and Procedures
From the DDCF site:
Implementation research to catalyze advances in health systems strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa: the African Health Initiative The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) launched the African Health Initiative to catalyze significant advances in strengthening health systems by supporting collaborative partnerships that design, implement and evaluate large-scale models of care. These models link implementation research and workforce training directly to the delivery of integrated primary healthcare in select countries in sub-Saharan Africa.In 2009, DDCF awarded five grants to support Population Health Implementation & Training (PHIT) Partnerships in Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. Research conducted by each PHIT Partnership is measuring the impact of the interventions on improving health systems performance and reducing child mortality and other health outcomes.
Accordingly, the Partnerships are participating in a Data Collaborative to promote cross-site sharing and global learning. The Data Collaborative is led by a central coordinating body referred to as the Data Coordinator. The Data Coordinator serves as a technical resource to the Partnerships, ensuring that each collects a set of comparable measures, or “core metrics.” The Data Coordinator is also working towards facilitating public access to data; helping identify lessons learned across the Partnerships; promoting the communication of research findings to the wider community; and when appropriate, coordinating PHIT Partnership data collection and analysis with efforts supported by other organizations. A team led by Dr. Robert Black and Dr. Jennifer Bryce at the Institute for International Programs (IIP) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is serving as the Data Coordinator.
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