Protocols and Manual Development – National Data Management Center for Health

Guide Lines
- Evidence Translation Guideline
  The objective of this Evidence Translation Guideline is helping as roadmap in executing the work of evidence translation, helping NDMC as abiding document in using media and communication and managing information and also directing the flow of information and decision making regarding the type of information to be shared and not.
- National Data Management Center (NDMC) for health Working Guidelines
  
  The purpose of this Guideline is to present the vision, Mission, Goals, and objectives of NDMC with required organizational units, strategies, human resource, infrastructure, and thematic areas for collaboration
- Data Implementation Guide Line
  
  The purpose of this Guideline is to present the Metadata Standard of the database, Database organizational plan, Data Archival process, data security, and procedure for sharing data to a third party which is organized by the National Health Data Management Center of EPHI.
- Ethiopian Public Health Institute Revised Guideline for Data Management and Sharing
  
  The purpose of this guideline is to ensure that EPHI maintains a comprehensive and systematic data storage mechanism and consistently provides data to its partners for appropriate public health purposes.

Data Analysis
- EPHI exploratory data analysis example
  
  This document will provide an example of exploratory data analysis in the R programming language by taking data of changes in fertility over time in each of the 11 Ethiopian regions, using Demographic Health Survey (DHS) data collected by the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency (CSA)
- Exploratory spatial data analysis
  
  The purpose of this document is it to become familiar with some of the methods used to analyze and explore spatial data in the R programming language. It will cover some of the basic types of spatial data, how to make summary plots and maps to inspect the spatial data. It will then walk through some examples of exploratory data analysis from the DHS on HIV prevalence by different subnational regions in Ethiopia.
- Exploratory Microdata Analysis – Risk Factors using WHO STEPS 2015
  
  This guide will give an overview of the first steps one should take when analyzing micro data, how one can tabulate different kinds of variables, how to run a simple regression to describe risk factor exposure trends by education or income, and how to visualize these results.
Internal Data Access framework

This is a framework for internal data access from EPHI, IT server by NDMC authorized person. And the main objective is to ensure NDMC have full access to data’s on EPHI server to effectively execute its intended goals and responsibilities delegated by the institute.
Data Ownership and Authorship

This document will provide information about criteria for data ownership, data owner’s general procedures and responsibilities and authorship.
Data Security

This document describes about data security, digital data security procedures, data protection, data retention and destroying data within National Data Management Center (NDMC) at EPHI
Data sharing contractual agreement with FMOH

This agreement establishes the terms and conditions under which the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) share data for the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH)
MOU with University based Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites and Mortality Surveillance Program in Ethiopia

This collaboration is aiming to maximize opportunities for NDMC located at EPHI and HDSS located in the Universities on research capacity building, research funding, data access and sharing, identifying research priorities and dissemination of findings to inform national and subnational health policy in Ethiopia.