Data Use for Disease Control & Global Health Decision-Making
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Data Use for Disease Control & Global Health Decision-Making
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There are 3 modules in this course
- Conduct epidemiologic surveillance to inform decision-making
- Apply best practices for healthcare data collection and analysis - Apply the lessons learned from the polio eradication effort This informative three-week course will prepare you to meet the challenges of conducting epidemiologic surveillance to gather data to inform decision-making and planning. Using the polio eradication effort as a case study, you’ll address the application of surveillance systems in a wide variety of settings. Throughout the course, you’ll reflect on and apply the lessons learned from the global polio eradication initiative, an effort led by the World Health Organisation resolved to eradicate the disease poliomyelitis. You will learn lessons from this initiative - the largest of its kind in history -and will apply data for decision-making going forward. You’ll also discuss the challenges and strategies that can be presented when applying data. You will identify various different epidemiological systems in countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria, and on how to conduct data collection in remote areas. Then, you will discuss the best practices for conducting epidemiologic surveillance in a wide range of locations and will come to a range of solutions for the conclusion of how to conduct and use data in a variety of different situations.
This course considers polio as a case study for addressing viruses and vaccines. This module will begin with an overview of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and Implementation Science. Then, we will go into some details about the polio virus and vaccine, and eradication as a strategy for global disease control. It's important to think about how the characteristics of a disease, and the strategies chosen to control it, determine what data are collected and how.
What's included
10 videos10 readings1 assignment
10 videos•Total 117 minutes
- Welcome to the course•3 minutes
- (Optional) Welcome to Strategies for Global Health Program Implementation: Insights from Polio Eradication•2 minutes
- (Optional) Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)•23 minutes
- (Optional) Learning Implementation Science through the Polio Eradication Experience•18 minutes
- (Optional) Welcome to Polio Eradication Basics•1 minute
- (Optional) The Viruses•17 minutes
- (Optional) The Vaccines•17 minutes
- (Optional) Eradication as a Strategy•15 minutes
- (Optional) The Four Pillars of Polio Eradication and the Essentials of Polio Campaigns•15 minutes
- (Optional) Vaccine Derived Polioviruses, New Tools, and New Strategies•6 minutes
10 readings•Total 21 minutes
- Motivations for taking this course•1 minute
- Who are we?•3 minutes
- Course Resources and Technical Support•3 minutes
- (Optional) A Tribute to Dr. Patrick K. Kayembe•0 minutes
- (Optional) Preview: Strategies for Global Health Program Implementation•1 minute
- (Optional) Read & Reflect: Implementation Research•10 minutes
- (Optional) Preview: Polio Eradication Basics•1 minute
- (Optional) Read & Reflect: Eradication or control? •1 minute
- (Optional) Read & Reflect: Implementation Challenges•1 minute
- (Optional) Read & Reflect: A Vaccine We Don't Even Use Anymore is a Reason Polio Keeps Spreading•0 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
- (Optional) Polio Eradication Basics Quiz•5 minutes
In this module, we will begin with an overview of surveillance systems - a core component of disease control and eradication. We will learn about surveillance as a decision support system for planned as well as outbreak responses. We will then consider various strategies for quality and complete surveillance in diverse contexts, and end the week with a roundtable discussion on conducting surveillance in hard to reach areas.
What's included
13 videos8 readings1 assignment7 discussion prompts
13 videos•Total 109 minutes
- Welcome to Understanding Surveillance Systems•1 minute
- Introduction to Understanding Surveillance Systems•5 minutes
- Overview of Surveillance•5 minutes
- Understanding the Polio Surveillance System•13 minutes
- Outbreak Response•9 minutes
- Surveillance and Outbreak Response: Innovations and Lessons Learned•3 minutes
- Roundtable discussion: Surveillance system challenges in conflict settings•8 minutes
- Welcome to Examples from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Nigeria•1 minute
- Introduction to Examples from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Nigeria•3 minutes
- The Importance of Incentives: Strategies for Excellent Surveillance•15 minutes
- The Promise and Limits of Technology: Supplemental Strategies for Surveillance•11 minutes
- Vertical and Integrated Approaches: Does Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) Surveillance Support the Health System?•9 minutes
- Roundtable discussion: Conducting Surveillance in Hard-to-Reach Areas•26 minutes
8 readings•Total 67 minutes
- Lesson Preview for "Understanding Surveillance Systems"•1 minute
- Read & Reflect: How would you define "surveillance" and "outbreak"?•5 minutes
- Read & Reflect: Active Surveillance for Disease Eradication•10 minutes
- Read & Reflect: Addressing an Outbreak vs a Planned Response•5 minutes
- Read: Improving disease surveillance•10 minutes
- Lesson Preview for "Examples from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Nigeria"•1 minute
- Read & Reflect: What does AVADAR add?•15 minutes
- Read & Reflect: Lessons learned from Vertical and Integrated Approaches•20 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
- Field Epidemiology and Outbreak Response Quiz•5 minutes
7 discussion prompts•Total 70 minutes
- How would you define "surveillance" and "outbreak"?•10 minutes
- Why do many find the surveillance map of Nigeria hard to believe?•10 minutes
- Do & Discuss: Analyzing Surveillance Data Sets•10 minutes
- Reflect & Discuss: Identifying surveillance strategies to detect and control outbreaks in conflict settings•10 minutes
- Reflect & Discuss: What are some problems you're experiencing with surveillance in your own context?•10 minutes
- Reflect & Discuss: Challenges of Disease Surveillance Systems•10 minutes
- Read & Discuss: Lessons Learned from Bangladesh on the Importance of Incentives•10 minutes
In this module, we will begin with an overview of the different types of data collected by the polio program. We will then consider how these data are used to make critical decisions for the program. We will discuss strategies for collecting quality and complete data, and end the week with a roundtable discussion on incentivizing quality data.
What's included
14 videos9 readings1 assignment3 discussion prompts
14 videos•Total 94 minutes
- Welcome to Using Data for Polio Decision-Making•1 minute
- Data Sources in Polio Eradication•7 minutes
- Surveillance Data•11 minutes
- Supplementary Immunization Activity (SIA) Data•7 minutes
- Social Mobilization Data•6 minutes
- Other Types of Data•6 minutes
- Making Decisions Using Data•5 minutes
- Welcome to Challenges and Strategies in Data Use•1 minute
- Introduction to Challenges and Strategies in Data Use•1 minute
- The Importance of Incentives: Data Quality•9 minutes
- The Promise and Limits of Technology: Information Technology for Decision-Making in Nigeria•12 minutes
- The Importance of Politics: Who Has Power over the Data and the Decisions?•16 minutes
- Roundtable discussion: Incentivizing Quality Data for Decision-Making•11 minutes
- Concluding thoughts•2 minutes
9 readings•Total 62 minutes
- Lesson Preview for "Using Data for Polio Decision-Making"•1 minute
- Read (Optional): Information to Improve Decisionmaking for Health•5 minutes
- Do: Analyzing Surveillance data of Polio Cases in Pakistan and Afghanistan•15 minutes
- Read & Reflect: Making Surveillance Data Useful•10 minutes
- Thought experiment: Effectiveness of the questions you ask•5 minutes
- Scenario: Decision-making with data•10 minutes
- Lesson Preview for "Challenges and Strategies in Data Use"•1 minute
- Exercise: National Level Data Sharing•10 minutes
- What's next?•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
- Data for Decision-making Quiz•5 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
- Review & Discuss: Better Categories for Better Data •10 minutes
- Scenario: GIS data vs manual data estimates•10 minutes
- Reflect on this course: Your major take-aways•10 minutes
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