Addressing the gap in health data management skills: an online self-guided course for researchers and health professionals
Naomi Waithira, Brian Mutinda, Kehkashan Shah, Evelyne Kestelyn, Susan Bull, Liam Boggs, Trudie Lang, Phaik Yeong Cheah · 2024
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Naomi Waithira and seven co-authors describe an online course teaching health data management to researchers and health workers, in a paper from twenty twenty-four. Digital tools now drive health decisions, yet medical training still skimps on handling data. The gap bites hardest in poorer countries, where privacy worries and weak infrastructure stall data use.
Built with a standard course-design model, the program grew from a workshop where twenty-five global health professionals named the missing skills. Six modules cover basics from data quality and repositories to ethics, governance, and costing. Piloted in person, it moved online through a global health platform. Over six thousand learners from ninety countries finished it. Post-course surveys showed high relevance and strong intent to apply the skills.
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| CREATOR | Naomi Waithira, Brian Mutinda, Kehkashan Shah, Evelyne Kestelyn, Susan Bull, Liam Boggs, Trudie Lang, Phaik Yeong Cheah |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |