Core of my current work. Research on methods to measure different dimensions of health
Short term consulting projects
5 years of HIV monitoring strengthening in Guinea, Mali, Niger and Sierra Leone with Solthis
Much of the material remains unprocessed, or, if processed, unanalyzed, or, if analyzed, not read, or, if read, not used or acted upon. Only a minuscule proportion, if any, of the findings affect policy and they are usually a few simple totals.
—Robert Chambers, 1983
| Local | Global | Local | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back and forth | Develops Policy | Provides funding | Documents Policy Results |
| Compiling and transmission | Documents Policy Results | Compiles Best practices and formulates recommentation | Integrates best practices from other countries |
| Knowledge Transformation | Produces local epidemiological Data | Models Global Burden of Disease | Investigates dark spots of GBD |
| Methods update | Designs local method | Integrates local methods in global practices | Chooses appropriate methods |
Most big academic players in the Global North.
Norms and classifications produced in the Global North
Global Fund will fund 5 years of HIV program if you commit to report a couple "simple" indicators
"However, performing large studies in developing areas is challenging. One major problem is that many mothers and their infants are lost to follow-up."
"However, little has been reported about patients who do not adhere to care, fail to attend their scheduled consultations, or are lost to follow-up. In most studies of patients on antiviral therapy only those lost to follow-up in clinical trials were considered."
"However, accurate estimates of patient survival and other clinical outcomes have been difficult to obtain, as they are significantly impacted by patient loss to follow-up."
"Loss to follow-up is an important problem both for the care of individual patients and the evaluation of antiretroviral treatment programmes in low- and middle-income countries."
"However, the degree to which different measures of retention are related to outcomes, and to one another, among the same sample of HIV-infected patients is largely unexplored."
"Our recommendations for LTF definition are to base the definition on the study/programmatic outcome of interest, available encounter data, and the cohort visit schedule. Except in the context of collaborative networks,we do not advocate a universal standard as the definition of LTF should depend on the intended application and the cohort(s) of study."
Not built, just ad-hoc systems with little local ownership
Upside down, low skilled workers bear the burden of computation
Not fulfilled, low validity
Accessibility of powerful methods to understand complex systems (ex: Agend Based Modeling)
Reproducible research methods allow tracking of data and computation methods, and reproducibility and adaptation by different actors
Open Source software development, co-construction of output, flexible norm
