Data Related Tools and Resources

Tools:

  • The Essential Dx (Diagnostics) Tool is a decision support application designed to help working groups determine which diagnostics should be included at various tiers of the health system when developing national Essential Diagnostics Lists. The tool offers a dynamic, interactive platform that allows users to explore, customize, and visualize data to support informed, evidence-based decision-making.
  • Vaccine Data Harmonization Pilot Project & Data Harmonization Tool: In Fall 2023 CGHE, ISR’s Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), ISR’s Center for Political Studies, and Literature Sciences & the Arts collaborated on a data harmonization project that explored vaccine hesitancy using multi-modal data. The main purpose of the project was twofold 1) to use the NSF funded data harmonization platform Subnational Geo-spatial Data Archive (SUNGEO) to harmonize political violence data with World Bank vaccine hesitancy data for four countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Indonesia, and Malawi; and 2) to collaboratively pilot a process for data acquisition, data integration, data curation, and data analysis.
    • SUNGEO R Package for data harmonization: SUNGEO offers a statistical software package with embedded methodological tools for sub-national data processing and integration. The SUNGEO Geoprocessing Toolkit R package provides researchers with routines, documentation and source code to implement multiple (dis-)aggregation techniques with their own data. This includes tools for interpolating and integrating spatially-misaligned GIS datasets, tools for batch geocoding of addresses, and tools for selecting, downloading and loading spatial data directly into R from SUNGEO’s servers.

    • Promoting Data Harmonization to Evaluate Vaccine Hesitancy in LMICs: Approach and Applications
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10668461/
      Evaluating Self-Reported Vaccination Hesitancy in Mobile Phone Surveys Performed in LMICs: Learned Lessons from Data in Four Low and Middle Income Countries
      https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2326701/latest.pdf
    • Acknowledgement: This data harmonization project was funded by the Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE), and was a collaboration between CGHE, ISR’s ICPSR, ISR’s Center for Political Studies, Literature Sciences & the Arts. It builds upon CPS/LSA’s Sub-National Geospatial Data Archive project, funded by the National Science Foundation.