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Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership

Data Management Centre

An Institute of Excellence in Research and Education on HIV/AIDS and Emerging Public Health Challenges

web: https://aids.harvard.edu/research/bhp/

code: http://github.com/botswana-harvard/

Developing and promoting the safe use of open and customizable research data systems;
Building and maintaining local research data management capacity;
Designing systems that work well in resource limited settings;
Meeting audit and PII data protection requirements.

The EDC

a data management system for audited public health human subjects research

An open research-grade data collection and data management system designed to be customized. Clinical trials have a lot in common but not enough to be data managed by just one system. The EDC provides modules that solve common problems in clinical research while still allowing for customization by the data management team.

written in python with a lot of Django
core modules - edc-base, edc-consent, edc-visit-tracking, edc-visit-schedule, edc-rule-groups, edc-locator, edc-registration, edc-requisition, etc
optional modules - edc-sync, edc-call-manager, etc

Open-source Project Management

all code and commits published on github
integration testing on travis-ci
git-flow managed releases and hotfixes
semantic versioning

Compliance

track user, date and time separately for each record created and modified
encrypt personal identifiable information "at rest". Values are encrypted at the field-level. DB raw data is anonymous by default
full "snapshot on modified" audit trail visible to users and auditors
display and tag all records and all screens with the edc version number

Active Research Projects

BHP083: Botswana Canadian Vaccine Project view on github
BHP077: Microbiome view on github
BHP066: Botswana Combination Prevention Project view on github
BHP045: Botswana Prospective Cancer Cohort view on github

Research Projects in Development

Projects in development are written for python3 / Django 1.9

BHP085: Metabolic Outcomes of Children HIV/ARV exposed view on github
BHP066a: ART Start (Botswana Combination Prevention Project sub-study) view on github
Tshipidi-Plus (Extension of the Tshipidi study) view on github

Past Research Projects

BHP071: Determinants of Malnutrition view on github
BHP062: Maikaelelo view on github
BHP056: Mpepu (not on github)
BHP041: Community-Wide Testing and Treatment to Reduce HIV Incidence, the 'Mochudi Project' (not on github)
BHP034: Acceptibility of adolescent male circumcision (AGE GROUP 13-18) and their parents / legal guardians in Mochudi and Molepolole, Botswana (not on github)

Authors and Contributors

Collaboration and Capacity Building

We are eager to collaborate with anyone who shares our mission of developing and promoting the safe use of open and customizable research data systems. We can help your research team deploy an EDC while building local data management capacity.

Contribute

Pick a module or, if you prefer, ask us where you can assist. Add a pull request.
Suggest and discuss with us functionality that your project needs.

Contact

To contact us please send an email to @erikvw.