Improve health and demographic data ecosystem in India by strengthening data quality as well as the systems that create and manage data; by deepening interests on the importance of good quality data among both producers and consumers and educate consumers to demand data of good quality.
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Dr. M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao holds PHD in statistics from Osmania University, Hyderabad and MTech (IT) from Punjabi University. He has nearly three decades of experience in health and nutrition in the speciality of Biostatistics, Big data and information technology, both as a scientist at the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, and the current Director of ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi. Dr. Rao has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals and 25 reports. Dr. Rao is a recipient of several awards, including the NAMS Oration Award for the year 2019.
Dr. Niranjan Saggurti is Director of the Population Council’s office in India. He provides strategic and technical leadership to Council’s work filling important knowledge gaps for policymakers and program managers – building evidence on what works and why. He has 20 years of experience in public health and policy-oriented research in sexual and reproductive health, migration, alcohol, gender-based violence, community mobilization and the intersection of these issues. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals on these topics. He currently serves as research advisor on several committees of the governmental and non-governmental organisations.
NDQF and its partners have developed two data quality assessment tools. The first one is an outlier detection tool, capable of detecting potential outliers in a dataset. The second one developed by IIIT, Delhi is data quality labelling tool, designed to provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the quality of a dataset.