COVID-19 logical framework & geospatial data

COVID-19
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Hey @markherringer, I’ve been slow to reply amid the flurry of covid meetings, but I was following your posts and wanted to share a new resource. I’ve been working with @helenelizabeth, @joshnesbit, and others in the Community Health Impact Coalition to draft guidance on the role for community health workers in the global covid response. It’s been incredibly heartening to see the community come together and develop these recommendations so quickly. https://twitter.com/chw_impact/status/1242478712462983168

The next resource is a CHT demo app the Medic team created to support Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) for COVID once they’re available more broadly. This is a reference use case (based on a protocol that Partners in Health created) that we would expect to adapt for local context on a country-by-country basis. More info and a demo video on this forum topic: New App Supporting CHWs administering COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Tests

As the position paper outlines, we’re seeing guidance break down into two types of roles for community health workers. If they have personal protective equipment and RDTs, they’ll do testing; if they don’t have this stuff, their role with focus more on informing the public and social support e.g. food assistance, mental health support. Either way, referral and coordination with facilities that have testing or/and ICU capacity will be important!

Two questions for now:

  1. If we want to map locations where CHWs are available for rapid testing, but we don’t want to publish the exact location of their home on a public map, how might we go about placing their information on a public map? Would we share shape files for their whole catchment area, or could we use http://plus.codes to share a neighborhood area with the CHW’s home somewhere undefined in the middle?

  2. Say we wanted to create maps with other data that might be useful for organizing the covid response. Say for example, home locations of people tested and locations of confirmed cases. I know this would be beyond the primary focus of healthsites.io but is it something you’d be interested in?

Thanks in advance for any ideas you can share!

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