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DHIS2 Academy on Data Quality

Join the DHIS2 Data Quality Academy and take your data quality skills to the next level. This hands-on, online training is designed to help you detect, investigate, and understand data quality issues using DHIS2, with a special emphasis on aggregate data.

Format

Online

Location

Online

Start date

1 Dec 2025

End date

5 Dec 2025

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    Academy Overview

    The DHIS2 Data Quality Academy, organized by the HISP Centre at the University of Oslo, is a fully online training program held daily from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM (GMT+2) in a live, synchronous format. This hands-on course is designed to help participants detect, investigate, and understand data quality issues in DHIS2, with a particular focus on aggregate data.

    💻 Format: Fully online, 3.5 hours per day
    🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM (GMT+2)
    ☕ Daily Break: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM (GMT+2)

    What You’ll Learn

    • Proven techniques to identify and analyze data quality challenges in DHIS2
    • Practical approaches to prevent and monitor issues using multiple methods
    • Insights into the latest DHIS2 Data Quality Toolkit, including newly introduced data quality metrics

    Why Attend?

    Whether you’re a data manager, M&E officer, or DHIS2 implementer, this academy will strengthen your ability to ensure accurate, reliable, and high-quality data for decision-making.

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    Participants Profile

    This Academy targets:

    • Implementers: Implementers are responsible for operationalizing and scaling up the DHIS2 configuration. Implementers work with all other members within the DHIS2 technical team and across departments and programmes within the Ministry in order to understand a system’s requirements and develop solutions to meet them. This includes adding additional functionality, integrating new programs, modifying routines to incorporate DHIS2 and supporting users to use the application.
    • Data Scientists: A data scientist is a professional who utilizes statistical analysis, machine learning, and programming skills to extract insights and knowledge from structured and unstructured data. They play a crucial role in helping organizations make data-driven decisions by analyzing complex data sets, developing predictive models, and visualizing data to communicate findings effectively.

    Learning Outcomes

    By the end of the DHIS2 Data Quality Academy, you’ll be able to:

    • Identify key data quality issues in DHIS2 — including data element completeness, facilities consistently reporting, consistency over time, denominators, and outliers
    • Analyze the root causes behind common data quality challenges using built-in DHIS2 tools and dashboards
    • Apply the DHIS2 Data Quality Toolkit to monitor and interpret changes in data quality metrics over time
    • Evaluate which preventive measures are most effective in improving data quality in your context

    Please Note:

    To help set expectations, please note that this academy will focus primarily on identifying and investigating data quality issues. Due to time limitations and the online format, we won’t be covering the step-by-step configuration of data quality metrics during this session.

     

    Your Facilitation Team

    Shurajit Dutta

    Shurajit has Master’s degrees in Public Health, Health Informatics and Adult Education. He has been working with DHIS2 since 2012 and has been a core member of the DHIS2 implementation team since 2014. Shurajit contributes to the DHIS2 documentation along with efforts to standardize and disseminate training materials. Shurajit is a co-author of the data quality toolkit and has worked on field testing it in several locations.

    Olav Poppe

    Olav has both his Master’s and PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo and is a core member of the DHIS2 implementation team since 2012. He has a wide range of experience supporting systems strengthening in Africa and Asia, is a key contributor to the DHIS2 documentation and spearheads a number of global efforts related to DHIS2 development. Olav is a co-author of the data quality toolkit and has worked on field testing it in several locations.

    Fees & Registration

    Participation fees are USD $200.

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    Contact Us

    Should you have additional questions please contact the DHIS2 Academy organizer at dataquality2025@dhis2.org.

     

    Terms & Conditions

    Please review our Terms & Conditions, which apply to every person registering as a participant for a DHIS2 Academy.