Data for Implementation (Data.FI) is a global project that helps countries strengthen routine health information systems to optimize efficiencies in the health sector, track and rapidly respond to the HIV epidemic and emerging health threats, and improve client care through integrated, and flexible digital health solutions, data analytics, and institutionalized data use practices.

To do this, we leverage expertise in program implementation, measurement, digital health, data science, and data use to help countries, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and partners ask better questions, look at unsolved problems in new ways, and pivot programming faster.

Why Us?

Data.FI provides country-tailored support across the data value chain to enhance and build integrated and client-centered health information systems that track individuals through prevention, treatment, laboratory, dispensing, and wrap-around services; strengthen governance of health information systems to improve data availability and information security; standardize routine data analytics and visualizations; and institutionalize data review.

Where We Work

Data.FI is supporting more than 20 countries to improve program performance through data

Data.FI has worked in Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central America Region (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama), Côte d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Jamaica, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, the West Africa Region (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo), Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

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Benin	Strengthening data quality among implementing partners for decision making
Burkina Faso	Strengthening data quality among implementing partners for decision making
Burundi	SIDAInfo (HIV EMR) optimization, and development and rollout of biometric module DHIS2 and SIDAInfo interoperability developed
Cote d’Ivoire	OVC and DREAMS databases, developed on the OpenMRS platform
Ghana	Strengthening data quality among implementing partners for decision making
Guatemala	Improving HIV and health data availability for decision making
Honduras	Strengthening regional situational rooms and rapid COVID-19 response teams Improving data quality, management, and use Optimizing lab inventory reporting
Jamaica	Strengthening systems for tracking COVID-19 vaccine registration and vaccination uptake as well as COVID-19 infections and mortality
Liberia	Strengthening data quality among implementing partners for decision making
Malawi	EMR utilization improved; USAID IPs are entering data into system, more actively engaged, and working with CDC HIS partner
Mali	Strengthening data quality among implementing partners for decision making
Mozambique	DAP interactive dashboard integrating HIV data, nutrition, and commodity management systems Developing governance processes for sustainability
Namibia	ePMS Quantum (EMR) assessment and scale-up to 359 sites
Nigeria	LAMISPlus EMR and NOMIS development Constitution of an HIS community of practice Central LAMISPlus, Master Patient Index, and deduplication Epidemic control rooms
Senegal	Strengthening data quality among implementing partners for decision making
Sierra Leone	Strengthening data quality among implementing partners for decision making
South Africa	Ongoing development of the Consolidated Health Informatics‒South Africa (formerly InfoHub) interoperability and analytics platform Machine learning, client-record deduplication solution deployed for NDOH across 20M records Ongoing development and use of the Knowledge Hub eLearning platform for public and private health providers
Tanzania	Data Portal developed for internal USAID monitoring and evaluation QA/QI Platform, leveraging OpenHIM and Mungano Gateway, started up in 2021
Togo	Strengthening data quality among implementing partners for decision making
Uganda	Mobile and web-based application for generating a key populations unique identification code developed and piloted among USAID-supported IPs
Zimbabwe	OVC IP information systems harmonized in DHIS2 instance and data exchange with DREAMS established

Our Team

Senior Leadership

Shreshth Mawandia
Data.FI Project Director

Dauda Sulaiman Dauda
West Africa

Margaret Mensah
Finance and Administration

David Merchant
Central America and Caribbean

Pascal Mwele
Technical Director

Country Directors

Serge Bisore
Burundi

Ida Kagone
Burkina Faso

Edwige Bosso Abiche
Côte d’Ivoire

Christy Mulinder
South Africa

Stella Mujaya
Tanzania

Otse Ogorry
Nigeria

Dineo Pereko
Eswatini

Eduardo Samayoa
Guatemala

Liziem Valladares
Honduras

Technical Experts

Michelle Li

Christopher Githu

Anubhuti Mishra

Jenny Mwanza

Eric Ramirez

Our Partners

Data.FI is led by Palladium in collaboration with a world-class consortium that includes JSI Research & Training Institute, Johns Hopkins University Department of Epidemiology, Right to Care, Cooper/Smith, DT Global, Jembi Health Systems, and Pendulum.

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