The Tableau Foundation has teamed up with PATH to eliminate malaria
in Zambia and create a replicable model that can be deployed across the
globe. The five-year “Visualize No Malaria” campaign empowers responders
with real-time analytics to help save lives.
Every year, malaria claims nearly 600,000 lives, most of them
children under 5. Nearly every minute, someone dies from the treatable
disease.
“It’s just not necessary,” says Neal Myrick, who heads Tableau
Foundation. “Malaria is a disease we know how to treat, and we just need
to be more strategic with how we treat it and how we reach the people
who need the help.”
Community health workers in Zambia currently catch only half of the
cases of malaria. To make malaria history, they need to deploy resources
faster than the disease can spread—and that’s where Tableau comes in.
Through this initiative, we’re providing software, training, and
funding to PATH’s teams on the ground so they can make data-informed
decisions when it matters most.
Health workers will report new cases of malaria in real-time. Then
Zambia’s Ministry of Health will use Tableau to see and understand that
data, and deploy the appropriate resources to contain the outbreak.
“Where to deploy your diagnostics, where to put bed nets, where you
are lacking in bed nets—all those things are driven by information that
is helped hugely by the ability to visualize that information,” says
Duncan Earle, PATH’s director of Malaria Control and Elimination
Partnership in Africa.
Interactive dashboards can also help better manage community health
workers across large regions. Managers can easily see which teams are
moving efficiently, and which teams may need more resources.
The campaign will launch in areas where the disease is already under
control, and work to eliminate it entirely. It will then scale outwards
to expand these safe zones across the entire country.
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