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October 23, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

The National Data Management Center for health (NDMC) at EPHI has signed a MoU with all Regional Health Bureaus, City Administrations and all Regional Public Health Institutes a fund amounting 19 Million Birr. The fund is intended to support the establishment of centralized health data systems and digital platforms for achieving health and health related data, analyzing health data, generating evidence and for evidence translation. Dr. Getachew Tollera, Deputy Director General of the EPHI has signed the MoU with heads of 1) Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa City administration health bureau, 2) Benishangul Gumuz, Gambella, Harare and Oromia Health bureau and 3) Amahara, Sidama and SNNP Region Public Health Institutes. In his speech, his Excellency Dr. Getachew emphasized the importance of this seed fund for establishing data systems and to strengthen collaboration with the regions to generate valid and representative data to inform resource allocation, to show underlying disparities and to strengthen evidence based decision at all levels. Dr. Awoke Misganaw, Advisor of NDMC has presented the importance of strengthening collaboration with the regions to produce valid and reliable disease burden estimates at sub-national levels. Dr. Alemnesh H. Mirkuzie, coordinator of the Center has given a presentation on Building robust National and sub-national Health Data systems. She has shared the experiences of NDMC and details of the components covered in this seed fund. Finally, brief orientation on financial accounting and progress monitoring were provided to regional technical focals by Grant Management experts, Mr. Hussien Faris and NDMC project coordinator, Mr. Melaku Temselew.

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September 24, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

The National Data Management Centre for Health (NDMC) held a meeting with CHAMPS and other stakeholders on the 24^th of September, 2021. Given that the CHAMPS project is one of the projects NDMC collaborates with, it works to investigate the causes of deaths among children under the age of five. Ever since NDMC collaborates with CHAMPS, there have been on-going collaborative studies that aim to determine of the death of children in Harar, Ethiopia. The conference aimed to achieve two main objectives. First, it targets to disseminate evidence generated through the collaboration. Second and most importantly, it aspired to open discussion on how to make use of scientific evidences for better decision making in the health system. The major stakeholders of child health and collaborators of NDMC including MoH, RHBs, universities and partners have attended the conference; the venue will be at EPHI’s conference hall.

Three different scientific papers have been presented, and were made open for discussions. First, Dr. Loula Madrid from the CHAMPS project presented the basic tasks conducted by the project along with the major challenges. Second, Dr. Yabibal presented the roles of machine learning to clearly identify cases of the causes of neonatal deaths. Thirdly, Dr. Fentabil made a presentation on anti-microbial resistance in relation to reducing child mortality. All in all, the discussions on the scientific presentations have given insights on the ways forward to conduct collaborative works and reduce the death of children under the age of five.

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September 20, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

Staff members of the National Data Management Centre for health (NDMC) are attending     a five-days training on STATA as of September 15, 2021. STATA has a basic and advanced module, which enables to conduct data management, statistical analysis, graphic presentation of results, simulations, regression analysis, custom programming and many more. The training aims to build the statistical expertise of the multidisciplinary staffs of the center. Mr. Anteneh Tessema, a statistician and senior Data Analyst of NDMC and certified trainer, provides the training at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Training Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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September 2, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

Aspiring to deliver impactful outputs and systems, the National Data Management Centre for Health (NDMC) is conducting a workshop at Bishoftu from August 30 to September 06, 2021. The workshop aims to achieve five major objectives. First, it intends to evaluate the 2013 E.C performance, focusing on identifying challenges faced, bottlenecks encountered and enablers that support successful implementations. Second, taking into account the lessons learnt during the year 2013 E.C the center discussed on the 2014 E.C plan. Third, it aims at developing evidence briefs and manuscripts initiated in 2013 E.C. Discussing NDMC’s strategies, management and ways forward is another objective of the workshop. Finally yet importantly, the center prioritize topics identified by MoH high-level officials for analysis, evidence generation, evidence synthesis and translation.

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August 24, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

The National Data Management Centre for health (NDMC) has hosted a conference themed ‘Data for Better Health’ on August 19^th and 20^th, 2021 at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) grand hall, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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July 4, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

The National Data Management Center for Health, under the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, has made a big step to give training on data science. Since last Thursday, a group of experts have camped at Hawassa to finalize the preparation of training modules on the basics of data science and to lay a foundation for the inception of developing training on advanced data science  Meanwhile, EPHI’s training center has been the baron in assisting, coordinating and reviewing preparation of the manual.

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June 28, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

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).

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June 14, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

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…)

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June 14, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

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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June 8, 2021NDMCFront PageNews

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.

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