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Peter Winstanley, Wendy Thomas, Michelle Edwards

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Background material
concentrate on Ebola
big problem with sub-standard/falsified pharmaceuticals
population at risk from sub-optimal treatments
Many datasets are not published using standards, in some cases not even data-dictionaries,
- many data dictionaries are highly bespoke
- Visual recognition used to
in some cases need special software (e.g. geospatial), or need to pay, or to register
- paywalls and registration demands are a big problem - !A from FAIR

SimonC: How many of the datasets are visible in Google Dataset Search?

background material
Sendai Framework, linked to Sustainable Development Goals
- Reducing mortality, infrastructure disruption, improve risk registers
Focus here on Mortality - i.e. number of deaths
- direct, indirect, short vs long-term is major complication

Medellin - air quality, linked to transport → public health and wellbeing

CKAN-based portal launched 2018-09-18!

PhilA: can CODATA team have access to sensitive data -

Paola -MOU in prep re insurance data - may need individual confidentiality agreements with scientists
PhilA - one-off data formats and structures require individual conversions, not scalable to work with ...
EricP - if no properly anonymized data is available, then made-up data is guaranteed safe, but useful for testing methodology