HDR Global
HDR Global is a data science programme that seeks to assist with data science skills and enable trustworthy data access, re-use and analysis in regions, communities and disease areas, where evidence to tackle threats to public health is lacking.
About HDR Global
Our goals
- Enable research that tackles locally-set, priority health challenges by improving capture and analysis of all forms of health-relevant data
- Address inequity in where data is collected and who benefits from the evidence
- Connect expertise and share technology, standards, policies, and solutions that work between different projects, teams and networks in low resource settings
What we seek to do
- Work as a global federated partnership facilitating data governance, capacity building and system strengthening by connecting experts and excellence across and between projects, programmes, regions and organisations
- Provide open access to tools, resources, technical and data analytical support to enable new analyses from existing data sets
- Engage with the community in all its activities and embed approaches that ensure findings from new data analysis are taken into practice
- Link research and public health data activities for better collection and analysis to support data science as an integral element of healthcare delivery, and enable evidence-led decision making to improve outcomes in global priority health challenges
- Take a ‘showing-by-doing’ approach through pathfinder projects that generate evidence through asking new questions of existing datasets in the world’s most resource limited settings
Our early deliverables:
- HDR Global working with a global community of practice, regional partners and The Global Health Network have developed the Global Health Data Science hub, a digital platform which aims to support health data science communities globally
- ICODA’s existing driver projects are already acting as pathfinder projects to help our understanding and connecting cohorts of researchers globally
- We have been supporting global health events with data science content, including: CPHIA, WHO Data Science summit, CUGH
HDR Global is a data science programme convened by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and builds on the successful International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) initiative.