Lessons from an eight-country community health data harmonization collaborative

Authors: Madeleine Ballard, Helen Elizabeth Olsen, Caroline Whidden, Daniele Ressler, Lynn Metz, Anoushka Millear, Daniel Palazuelos, Nandini Choudhury, Fabien Munyaneza, Rene Diane, Kelly Lue, P. Émile Bobozi, Anant Raut, Andriamanolohaja Ramarson, Mamy Andrianomenjanahary, Karen Finnegan, Carey Westgate, Wycliffe Omwanda, Leping Wang, David Citrin, Ash Rogers, Moses Banda Aron, Molly Christiansen, Agnes Watsemba, Rehan Adamjee & Amanda Yembrick

This article describes a data harmonization and collaboration executed by the Community Health Impact Coalition. This project aimed to identify practices that enable quality care across community health sites, facilitate cross-site learning, and reinforce health information systems across communities. In the initial data collection phase described in this paper, researchers gathered information regarding maternal care from more than 8,300 CHWs across eight countries. In the future, researchers aim to collect more indicators and ensure CHWs, and their organizations, are engaged in the process.