APE Opportunity, CDC Malaria Branch

We have an unpaid opportunity for an interested student with data cleaning and basic analytic skills to complete their APE with CDC Malaria Branch. 

To better understand the benefits and potential areas of improvement for Tanzania’s Malaria Service and Data Quality Improvement (MSDQI) program, the student will analyze the MSDQI data and, under the oversight of malaria branch staff, provide key information to the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Tanzania program including describing the overall health facility coverage of the intervention, evaluate the data quality, and time permitting, will assess whether MSDQI evaluations improve over time with repeated activity visits. The student will learn to clean and manipulate datasets in R, create data visualizations including mapping if this is of interest, and could communicate results back to the program in Tanzania. PMI Tanzania is currently interested in revising the MSDQI program, and the student’s work could immediately contribute to improvements in the program’s administration.  Ideally the key work would be conducted over the next 4-6 weeks, though there is flexibility in hours/ week and timing.  All work may be completed remotely.

The MSDQI program is an activity designed to improve diagnosis and management of malaria, surveillance of malaria cases, and prevention of malaria during pregnancy. During the MSDQI program, trained staff visit health facilities across the Tanzania and conduct surveys which assess aspects of malaria case management and surveillance, and provide feedback to health facility staff to improve patient care.

Please contact Dr. Julie Gutman @ fff2 [at] cdc [dot] gov with your CV if interested.