Global Health Data Exchange: a global health data catalogue to create data transparency and access

Global Health Data Exchange

April 27, 2011

Peter Speyer

Director of Data Development

A global health data catalogto create data transparency and access

It starts with data

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Data

Evidence

Decisions

Better health

IHME

It starts with data

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Evidence

Decisions

Better health

Data

Broad range of data types

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

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• Censuses

• Surveys andsurveillance

• Vital statistics

• Measurements & covariates

• Health records

• Administrative records

• Registries

• Research results

• Databases

Population Health services Results

A new resource

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Population level data

Health services data

Results data

Finding data

Getting access to data

Getting more information about

data

Datacatalog

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Objective Solution

Usability Intuitive to use

Transparency Make it easy to find data

Access Make data easy to access

CommunityConnect data users and data

producers (Phase 2)

GHDx and GIS

• Map data availability by territory

• Identify availability of data for any geography

o By time

o By keyword

• Identify areas with insufficient data coverage

• Contrast health indicators with data availability

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It starts with data

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Data

Decisions

Better health

Evidence

Mapping IHME’s results

Objectives

•Make IHME’s results more accessible

•Enable interaction with the data

•Visualize estimates by country

o Comparable across countries and time

o Compare two indicators

•Collect feedback

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Questions?

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Peter Speyerspeyer@uw.edu@peterspeyer