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Information for researchers

If you or your research group would like to work with historical COVID-19 data, or you are in a health-related field and want to influence the direction of Epi-Collect, we would love to talk with you. Please email us at nessup@gmail.com and mennen.lars@gmail.com. We also encourage you to join the public Slack workspace.

What we can help with

  • Integrating the dataset into your tooling
  • Creating new quiz questions
  • Creating new types of data input
  • Creating a location-specific dataset (such as for a hospital in a given locale)
  • Sharing your work with our partners and community

Overall process

Researcher approval process

Requirements

  • Researcher must prove affiliation with an accredited educational institution of higher learning
    • Acceptable academic accreditations:
      • Researcher is currently a graduate student in a health-related field
      • Researcher is formerly or currently a faculty member
      • Researcher is an undergrad acting with the support of a research group
    • Researcher must receive unanimous approval from the Core Contributors (Danny and Lars) after reviewing accreditation
    • Researcher must then introduce themselves to community and communicate what they would like to do with the data

Post approval

  • Epi-Collect Users are notified that the researcher has received the data and can delete in 24 hours
  • After 24 hours notice delivered to users, their data is copied into the researcher's dataset
  • We send users regular updates on your work and related work
  • Researcher must sign document affirming data will only be used for stated purpose