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NDMC Approves Its Forthcoming Plan amid Prospects

June 28, 2021NDMC Front Page News

The national data management centre for health (NDMC) has worked on setting its plans for the coming Ethiopian budget year on the 18^th of June E.C. Making its core teams the major focus of the planning, the centre has made scrutiny on whether or not the plans made by teams are specific, measurable, achievable, and timely. Granted that some plans are extensions of the existing year’s plan, the centre has also set strategies to work on new plans which are presumed to go in-line with EPHI’s plans.

On the other hand, aiming to achieve a common goal, the four case teams of the centre have made their plans align together. Plan alignment, as explained by leads of case teams, is going to help the teams avoid duplication of tasks, and makes them help one another in conducting tasks with different expertise. Moreover, the plan alignment has been extended to sharing activities with other directorates of EPHI, the Ministry of Health, Regional Health Bureaus, and Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites of Ethiopia. Finally, after passing through these discussion points, the plan has been endorsed to be submitted to the planning office of EPHI.

The discussion was chaired by Dr. Alemnesh Hailemariam (Coordinator of NDMC), and the participants were Dr. Awoke Misganaw (Advisor of NDMC), Mr. Melaku Temeselew (Project Coordinator of NDMC), Dr. Asnake Worku (Lead of Data Repository and Governance Team), Mr. Wondesen Teklemariam (Lead of Burden of Disease Team), Mr. Amanuel Lulu (Lead of Evidence Synthesis and Translation Team), and Mr. Latera Tesfaye (Lead of Data Analytics and Visualization Team).

How Should Ethiopia’s Government Respond to COVID – 19 in a Cost Effective Way?

June 14, 2021NDMC Front Page News

To support government decision-making to address the COVID-19 outbreak, the National Data Management Center (NDMC) of the Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI) conducted a systematic review of the economic evaluations of public health measures for the prevention and control of pandemics. The study explored literature published between the years 1998-2020 on pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions including stockpiling drugs and vaccines, treatment with antivirals, prophylaxis, vaccination, testing, tracking exposed persons, personal protective, school closure, equipment, quarantines, and border closure. (more…)

COVID-19’s Fatal Upshot – the Death of Mothers and Children

June 14, 2021NDMC Front Page News

The national data management center for health (NDMC), under the Ethiopian public health institute, has conducted a study on the indirect impact of COVID-19 on maternal, neonatal and child mortality. Broadly speaking, the study has estimated and shown the occurrence of the pandemic as it will bring an unprecedented death on children and mothers due to poor service utilization at health center.

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The National Data Management Center for health (NDMC) and the International Institute for Primary Health Care-Ethiopia (IIfPHC-E ) launch collaboration

June 8, 2021NDMC Front Page News

The National Data Management Center for health (NDMC) held a meeting with the International Institute for Primary Health Care-Ethiopia (IIfPHC-E) on June 08, 2021 at EPHI. The meeting was attended by the leaders and technical experts of the two entities. The objectives of the meeting were to have mutual understandings of what the two entities are engaged in and to find common ground for collaboration and partnership. Dr. Alemnesh, coordinator of NDMC welcomed the attendees and has given brief information about NDMC strategies and core functions, current capacity of case teams and multi-disciplinary human resources, major activities, systems and platforms, capacity building, collaborations, and evidence generation and translation endeavours of the center https://ndmc.ephi.gov.et/

Dr. Frehiwot, the director of IIfPHC-E has given information on the four core activities of the institute which include Knowledge Generation and Management, National Primary Health Care support, Global Primary Health Support, and Advocacy and Partnership. She has highlighted the various capacity building and collaboration endeavours at the national and international levels. https://iifphc.org/

Experts from the two entities have added more points for further the discussion. The two entities have expressed their interest to collaborate in capacity building, in advocacy and promotion using web platforms, awareness creation for stakeholders on data ownership and data sharing with MoH leadership, in mapping and archiving of primary Health Care (PHC) data, support in building PHC database, in joint evidence generation and publications. Data driven PHC at global, regional and national levels, the concept Dr. Awoke has brought has been considered for further exploration and discussion. The meeting was adjourned by making some action points for both entities to observe.

The meeting was attended by: Dr. Alemnesh Hailemariam Mirkuzie, Senior researcher and coordinator of NDMC, Dr. Awoke Misganaw, Senior Researcher and Advisor of the NDMC and Clinical Assistant Professor at IHME, Dr. Asnake Worku, Senior researcher and Data repository and Governance case team lead at NDMC. Dr. Frehiwot Nigatu, Director of IIfPHC-E, Prof. Getnet Mitike, IIfPHC-E research team advisor, Emebet Zerfu, head of IIfPHC-E Resource Center, Dr. Eskinder Wolka National PHC support lead at IIfPHC-E, Anteneh Tsegaye, IIfPHC-E project coordinator, and Tigist Astale, IIfPHC-E Research Officer.

NDMC is conducting a six-day workshop at Hawassa to enhance the national Research Tracking Database System

June 6, 2021NDMC Front Page News

A team of technical experts from National Data Management Center (NDMC) are discussing on the design and implementation techniques of improving the recently launched RTDS.

The National Data Management Center for Health has conducted a workshop on costing of 10-year Strategic Plan Management (SPM)

June 2, 2021NDMC Front Page News

The NDMC is currently conducting 10 years costing of its strategic plan management. The EPHI has five strategic objectives. One of the five strategic objectives focus on the activities of the center which is aimed at enhancing digital health data science, analytics and information system.

This strategic objective is further divided into four strategic directions which are being conducted by the center’s four case teams.

The representative of all the four case teams in collaboration with the Program Plan and Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate successfully conducted the workshop. We thank all the participants who contributed to the complementation of the workshop on SPM costing.

Ethiopian Public Health Institute presented a research outcome on role of Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) in improving public health in Ethiopia and East Africa

July 22, 2020NDMC Front Page

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Ethiopian Public Health Institute said that more than quarter a million people in 12 East African Nile riparian countries die in a year due to household air pollution from solid fuel. The institute said this in its study of the public health impact of Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) presented on July 22, 2020 at the presence of different honorable guests from Ministry of Health, EPHI and other stake holders. The FDRE minster of Ministry of Health, Dr Lia Tadesse and a Director General of EPHI D.r Ebba Abate said that the effort EPHI is an eye opening work on the health impact of GERD.

The research is mainly focused on the role of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in reducing indoor air pollution when completed. Ethiopia contributes 87% of water resource to Nile; however, never benefited from the river. According to 2018 World Bank, about 55% (60 million) of Ethiopian population has no electricity access. Contrary to this, Egypt has 100% coverage of electricity. This indicates that Ethiopia unfairly treated to use its own resource as per its contribution. Currently, Ethiopia is constructing a multibillion project- Grand Ethiopian Renaissance- which is aimed at pulling millions its people out of poverty line and health impact is one importance of the dam.

One of the presenters, Dr. Awoke Misganaw, a Clinical Assistant Professor at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Advisor at NDMC said that all Nile Basin countries including Ethiopia have poor access to electricity except Egypt. In his presentation, Dr. Awoke said, ‘’In 2019, the total number of deaths attributable to household air pollution from solid fuel were 278,288 among 12 East Africa countries including Nile Basin countries during the same year. Six countries (Ethiopia, DR Congo, Tanzania, Somalia, Uganda and Kenya) account 85% of the deaths. In Ethiopia, the total numbers of deaths attributable to household air pollution from solid fuel were 67,827 deaths while only 73 deaths were reported in Egypt for the same year.’’

He said that If Ethiopia and other East African countries have enough electricity access, they would have averted all these deaths due to poor electrification.

Contribution of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in boosting the economy is another aspect of the research. Amanuel Lulu, Health Economist at National Data Management Centre for Health (NDMC) said that GERD will significantly contribute to improve health care expenditure and household spending for health. He added that there will be a large improvement in household income, with 1.4% increment in the first year to 7% increment in household income by the eight year of the completion of the dam. On the other hand, there will be improvement in household expenditures from 1.6 in the first year to 6.7% in the 8th year.

According to this study, currently only 15% of the health facilities in Ethiopia have reliable access to electricity. Mr. Amanuel indicated that when GERD is completed Ethiopia will get reliable power supply to health care facilities. Additionally, due to increase in income, households will have increased ability to pay for health expenditure. At the same time, government budget to be allocated to health which helps to achieve high coverage of essential health services. GERD will also increase health facility electrification which significantly will help to improve service delivery.

The study also listed points of policy action. Finally, discussion is held on the presentation and the presenters addressed the some of the questions raised by participants.

National Data Management Center Held Training on Burden of Disease for Ministry of Health and EPHI Staffs

March 12, 2020NDMC Front Page News

National Data Management Center for Health conducted training for Ministry of Health and Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) staffs on Burden of disease. The training held at EPHI’s Training center for three days starting from March 10-12/03/2020. “The training is aimed at introducing Global Burden of disease scientific methods and tools and identify priority areas for health policy action,” said head of National Data Management Center Dr. Alemnesh Hailemariam on the opening of the training. She added that the training is important to impart knowledge and skill of Burden of Disease methods and analysis as well as health and health related data relevance in influencing policy and action. “The culture of data sharing with in EPHI should be dramatically improved” said Dr. Alemnesh.

In her opening presentation, Dr Alemnesh stated that there is poor evidence on cause of death in Ethiopia and such training has paramount importance to create awareness of data sharing and exploration for the betterment of evidence based policy action. Dr. Awoke Temesgen, the advisor of NDMC and Burden of Disease at EPHI presented Global Burden of Diseases experience and methodology tools International Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated cause of death worldwide. “We have to maximize data use in order to better estimate cause of death in Ethiopia” said Dr. Awoke. He added that data is wealth for health and all stake holders should give hand to fill national data gap.

Fellows of Global Burden of Disease from Washington University also presented experience, methods and tools Global Burden of Diseases uses to estimate cause of death which the participants found interesting. Generally, more than 30 participants from EPHI, Ministry of Health and Washington University took part on the training.

MOU signed between 10 Universities and EPHI to improve Health in Ethiopia

February 28, 2020NDMC News

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The signed Memorandum of Understanding between Ethiopian Public Health Institute(EPHI), and ten Universities in order to collaborate and support improved health in Ethiopia through the National Data Management Center for health at EPHI and the Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites (HDSS) and Addis Ababa Mortality Surveillance Program(AAMSP) at the universities on the use of data for the population in accordance with the “information revolution” described in the Health Sector Transformation Plan.

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. By working together, NDMC and HDSS will enable Ethiopia to have the most accurate characterization of public health problems so that evidence-informed–based decision can guide the development and evaluation of policies and programs. This collaborative endeavor will also improve the visibility, credibility and significance of NDMC and HDSS in the country and beyond.

Specific purposes of this collaboration are

To establish a working collaboration between NDMC and HDSS
To support improvements in the health sector through generating data and strong evidence and translating evidence to action in the health sector
To sustain a continuous, accessible data storage and archiving in NDMC
To develop collaborative research and surveillance projects

This collaboration is expected to build strong research data system, fill critical gaps of generating quality data and evidence, use of evidence for action and changing data use culture at different levels.

NDMC and HDSS build their data management, data analytics capacity and share expertise
NDMC and HDSS advance data availability and sharing
NDMC and HDSS analyze the data to produce estimates of the burden of diseases and injuries and risk factors at the national and subnational level
NDMC and HDSS develop win-win research collaboration culture to better serve the country and improve their visibility and creditability
NDMC and HDSS create sustainable funding scheme to achieve their mission
Both facilitate the use of evidence for action to Ministry of Health and partners through different mechanisms

List of HDSS sites signed the MoU

Arba Minch Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Arba Minch University
Butajira Health and Demographic Surveillance System and Addis Ababa Mortality Surveillance Program, Addis Ababa University
Dabat Research Center, Health and Demographic Surveillance System, University of Gondar
Dale Wonsho Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Hawassa University
Gilgel Gibe Field Research Center, Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Jimma University
Kelilte Awlaello Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Mekelle University
Kersa Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Haramaya University
Micha Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Bahir Dar University
North Shewa Health and Demographic Surveillance System, St. Paul Millennium Medical College
Wolaita Sodo Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Wolaita Sodo University

MOU signed between DAI and EPHI

October 12, 2018NDMC

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) Global Health, LLC (“DAI”) to establish areas of collaboration to establish a secure, reliable and technologically advanced National Data Management Center for health (NDMC) on October 12, 2018.

According to the MOU in addition to establishing a secure, reliable and technologically advanced NDMC, the two parties share mutual interest to establish strengthen and network local and international collaborations.
The MOU further states that DAI agrees to collaborate with EPHI in support of the NDMC for health, providing services that include but are not limited to: technical support, materials review, and the sharing of knowledge, standards, recommendations and best practices pulled from extensive experience establishing data management centers in Tanzania, Kenya, and Zambia; these are few of the collaborative agreement areas between the two parties.
The MOU was signed by EPHI’s Deputy Director General Dr. Tsigereda Kifle and President of DAI Global Health Christopher A. LeGrand.
On the signing ceremony Dr. Tsigereda explained the potential and significance of EPHI in the countries health sector.