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It is designed to improve public health responses to COVID-19 and new emerging infectious diseases in South America (SAM) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. PROTECT strengthens several aspects of global health security, including event-based surveillance, respiratory surveillance and cross-border surveillance, as well as <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/one-health">One Health</a> and water-borne surveillance.</p> <h3 dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: GranjonLTW01-Roman, Granjon, Garamond, serif; font-size: 33px; font-weight: normal;">Areas of Support</span></h3> <p>The informatics team supports the GHS and PROTECT initiatives through these main areas:</p> <ul> <li><b>Supporting Data Systems</b> — development of advanced data and analytics systems for consolidating and analyzing large volumes of data, ensuring accurate, up-to-date data for health officials</li> <li><b>Data Integration </b>— integration of metagenomic, wastewater, clinical, and epidemiological data into single data repositories</li> <li><b>Workshops and Trainings</b> — provide trainings, hackathons, ongoing technical assistance, and curriculum development in the area of data analytics, visualization and systems maintenance</li> </ul> <h3 dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: GranjonLTW01-Roman, Granjon, Garamond, serif; font-size: 33px; font-weight: normal;">Accomplishments</span></h3> <h4>Event-based Surveillance Systems</h4> <ul> <li>Built an ODK-based Event-Based Surveillance system in Paraguay, which features online/offline capabilities with data capture through smartphones, as well as automated notifications through each of the four steps of EBS (identification, verification,triage, risk assessment)</li> <li>Redesigned and rebuilt Egypt’s EBS system with a custom ASP.NET MVC built solution in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Health & Population incorporating unique requirements such as push notifications, security and usability</li> <li>Upgraded and restored the Jordanian EBS system called JIERS (Jordan Integrated Electronic Records System) with the Jordan Ministry of Health</li> </ul> <h4>Vector-Borne Disease System in Egypt</h4> <ul> <li>Currently working on a DHIS2-based data collection system for Egypt’s vector-borne disease prevention and control program</li> <li>Introducing a modular data collection platform to ultimately streamline future One Health data capture and eventual integration within and across Ministries</li> </ul> <h4>Trainings in R, EBS, Data Warehousing and Data Visualization</h4> <ul> <li>Conducted three PowerBI trainings focused on public health surveillance in Egypt and Jordan, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</li> <li>Generated a report on cross-border health and a short-course series of learning modules.</li> <li>Provided trainings for data analytics with R and data visualization with Power BI using EBS data</li> <li>Deployed workforce trainings for EBS sensitization in Morocco & Paraguay, as well as developing electronic EBS training modules in multiple languages</li> <li>Provided various trainings to support Jordan’s National Public Health Institute, JCDC, in creating a cross-ministry One Health warehouse. Trainings covering data warehousing architecture, ETL, data models, and, later, PowerBI to visualize One Health indicators</li> <li>Created a comprehensive PowerBI user guide elaborating creation of charts, maps, filters, custom visuals and role-based security</li> </ul> <h3>Key Leadership</h3> <h4><span style="color:#000000;">UCSF</span></h4> <ul> <li>Principal Investigator: George Rutherford, MD, MA</li> <li>Leadership Team: Fitti Weissglas - Director of Health Informatics, David Mugume - HIS Team Lead, Michelle Moghadassi - HIS Program Manager</li> </ul> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="column"> <div class="sidebar_top"> <div class="region region-sidebar-top"> <div id="block-menu-block-5" class="block block-menu-block"> <div class="content"> <div class="menu-block-wrapper menu-block-5 menu-name-menu-our-projects parent-mlid-0 menu-level-1"> <ul class="menu"><li class="first leaf menu-mlid-3971"><a href="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/caribbean-program ">Caribbean HIS Program</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3956"><a href="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/global-health-security ">Global Health Security</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3921"><a href="/histac">HISTAC</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3931"><a href="/kenya-surveillance-strategic-information">Kenya Surveillance & Strategic Information</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3961"><a href="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/mets-program ">METS Program</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3926"><a href="/namtac">NAMTAC</a></li> <li class="last leaf menu-mlid-3966"><a href="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/tanzania-program ">Tanzania Program</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sidebar"> <div class="section"> <div class="region region-sidebar"> <div id="block-block-61" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <ul dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: none"> <li><strong>Funder: </strong>United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC)</li> <li style="margin: 1.25em 0"><strong>Project status: </strong>Ongoing</li> <li><strong>Regions supported: </strong>South America (SAM) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA)</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="block-block-91" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <h3 dir="ltr">Partners</h3> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.crdfglobal.org/">CDRF Global</a></p>  </div> </div> <div id="block-block-121" class="block block-block"> <h3>News</h3> <div class="content"> <p><a href="/news/powerbi-trainings-improve-global-health-security-middle-eastern-region">PowerBI Trainings to Improve Global Health Security in the Middle Eastern Region</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div id="footer"> <div class="section"> <div class="region region-footer"> <div id="block-block-31" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <p><a href="https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/" target="_blank"><img alt="UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences logo" height="67" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra5776/f/wysiwyg/ighs-white-logo.png" width="215" /></a></p> </div> </div> <div id="block-menu-block-4" class="block block-menu-block"> <div class="content"> <div class="menu-block-wrapper menu-block-4 menu-name-navigation parent-mlid-0 menu-level-1"> <ul class="menu"><li class="first leaf menu-mlid-3506"><a href="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/">Home</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3511"><a href="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/about">About Us</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3516"><a href="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/our-team">Our Team</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3521"><a href="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/news">News</a></li> <li class="last leaf menu-mlid-3526"><a href="/contact-us">Contact Us</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer-bottom"> <nav aria-label="Footer Navigation" class="footer--navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="/contact-us">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/accessibility-resources">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/website-privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/website-terms-use">Terms of Use </a></li> <li><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/azlist">A-Z Website List</a></li> </ul> </nav> <div class="footer--copyright"> <p>© 2024 The Regents of the University of California</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://informaticshub.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra9531/f/js/js_Fz6RHDXdmlpU-bbsf90QfGekbSok1snXaSs3DsAnHBo.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> /*<![CDATA[*/ (function() { var sz = document.createElement('script'); sz.type = 'text/javascript'; sz.async = true; sz.src = '//siteimproveanalytics.com/js/siteanalyze_8343.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(sz, s); })(); /*]]>*/ </script> </body> </html>