Live Presentation
Speak with Kana Yokoji about her practicum on January 31st from 4:45-5:15pm via this .
Video Presentation
View Kana Yokoji's poster presentation in this video recording:Â
Abstract
In the summer 2021 term, I worked at Cooper/Smith as a practicum student as part of the required practicum component of the MScPH program at Â鶹AV. Cooper/Smith is a technical assistance organization with specific expertise in health data and digitization. Initially, my proposed practicum project was Burkina Faso Data Use Partnership Data Rationalization, within which I was going to focus on undertaking the data rationalization workstream to streamline data elements and data sources in order to ensure that data meets the needs of decision-makers, ultimately improving data quality and availability. As part of the data rationalization work, I reviewed all the available data source and extracted data elements. I catalogued all the metadata collected from data collection tools, and analyzed naming conventions, data types, and an overall consistency of the metadata. Data rationalization analysis uncovered an inefficient data collection system and usage that is currently in place in Burkina Faso. In addition, collected data is not being efficiently delivered to decisions makers for analysis or being used as evidence for decision making, while they rely on informal information data source. In addition to this project, I also performed data visualization of results from a data user study to investigate the current situation around the collection, management, share and usage of data collected in Blantyre District of Malawi as part of the Blantyre Prevention Strategy program (BPS). Finally, I undertook a literature review to investigate the current and most up-to-date methods to ensure the confidentiality and data security of individuals when linking CDR data and health information (HIV test results), as part of the network analysis for HIV surveillance, Cooper/Smith aims to conduct research to investigate the association between mobility and the risk of contracting HIV. Â