Global Health Data Exchange

March 14, 2011

Peter Speyer

Director, Data Development

Launch of a global health data catalog

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It starts with data

Data

Evidence

Decisions

Better health

Global health data landscape

• International organizations, survey programs

• National CSOs, MoHs, Open Government

• Sub-national Health Departments

• Providers: health facilities, pharmacies

• Health insurers

• Funders & NGOs

• Academic: studies, literature reviews, DSS

• IPUMS: census

• IHSN: surveys

• ICPSR: social science

• SodaPop: population

• Dataverse: research archive

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• World Bank Open Data

• WHO GHO

• Gapminder

Data sourcesData archives &

repositoriesIndicator

databases

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The road to secondary data

• Find out about relevant datao Different languages / multiple titles

o ‘Dynamic’ websites

o Unstructured data

• Get access to the datao Find data providers

o Get permission

• Get feedback on the data

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A new resource

Data sources

Data archives & repositories

Indicator databases

Finding data

Getting access to data

Getting background on

data

Datacatalog

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Objective Solution

Usability Intuitive to use

Transparency Catalog of health-related datasets

Access Platform to download data

Community Connect data users and data producers (Phase 2)

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GHDx at IHME

• “Our mission is to improve the health of the world’s populations by providing the best information on population health.”

• Planned since inception

• Leveraging IHME’s data work

• Managing internal data

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Open data, open source

• Open datao All data in the public domain

• Open-source system: Drupalo Web content management system

o Modular

• Open-source search: SOLR o Google-like

o Powerful features

• Sharing the platform: installations

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Coverage

Health-related data that provideinformation about population health and its determinants

• Surveys and surveillance

• Vital statistics

• Censuses

• Research results

• Measurements & covariates

• Registries

• Patient health records

• Administrative data

• Databases

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Data catalog

• Information about what datasets exist

• Dataset recordso Standardized English title

o Original / alternative titles

o Data provider

o Suggested citation

• Statuso 4,300 public records

o 5,800 more records to be published

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Data for download

• Data in the public domain

• High download speeds

• Simple registrationto access

• Easy to cite Share your data!

• Reach a different / broader audience

• Get higher impact for your data

• Get credit via citation• Free!

CDC and GHDx

March 14, 2011

Paul Stupp

Demographer, CDC

GHDx Demo

March 14, 2011

Abby Metcalf

Content Manager

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Use the GHDx

• Search and browse data

• Subscribe to blog and data feeds

• Download data

• Send us feedback and information about data

• Share your data on the GHDx

Contact us!

speyer@uw.eduabbyem@uw.edu

data@healthmetricsandevaluation.org