Scientific Workflow and Integration Software for Health

We will build a system for the kind of data sourcing, manipulation and analysis that is required for greater efficiency in many epidemiological research areas. The first demonstration of value will be to publish specific workflows online that integrate datasets and produce an analysis assessing and projecting the health impacts of extreme weather events. The second demonstration of value will be the publication of peer reviewed journal articles that describe the results of our studies. The enhanced infrastructure will eventually provide support for a diversity of epidemiology researchers (e.g., biosurveillance, wildlife health, and emerging infectious diseases). The integrated datasets, workflows and their metadata will be open source, extensible and digitally identified for publishing to Research Data Australia, making the system available and re-useable to the wider research community.
Type
Activity
Activity Type
Project
Access Privileges
Meteorology and Health
Title
Scientific Workflow and Integration Software for Health
Abbreviated Title
SWISH
Alternate Title
ANDS Project Code: AP07 A Scientific Workflow System for Assessing and Projecting the Health Impacts of Extreme Weather Events
Funding Body
ANDS
Date activity began
2012
Date the activity ended
2013
Brief Description
The project will develop software that enhances existing research data infrastructure with tools that merge population, health and environmental data for analysis and inference in environmental epidemiology.
Full Description
We will build a system for the kind of data sourcing, manipulation and analysis that is required for greater efficiency in many epidemiological research areas. The first demonstration of value will be to publish specific workflows online that integrate datasets and produce an analysis assessing and projecting the health impacts of extreme weather events. The second demonstration of value will be the publication of peer reviewed journal articles that describe the results of our studies. The enhanced infrastructure will eventually provide support for a diversity of epidemiology researchers (e.g., biosurveillance, wildlife health, and emerging infectious diseases). The integrated datasets, workflows and their metadata will be open source, extensible and digitally identified for publishing to Research Data Australia, making the system available and re-useable to the wider research community.
Contact Email
ivan.hanigan@anu.edu.au
Contact Address
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH). Research School of Population Health. College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200.
Contact Phone Number
Ph: +61 2 6125 7767.
Contact Fax Number
Fax: +61 2 6125 0740.
Fields of Research
111706 - Epidemiology
Socio-Economic Objective
9204 - Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Keywords
Environment and Public Health; Software
Related Websites
The project blog
http://swish-climate-impact-assessment.blogspot.com.au/
Status: Published
Published to:
  • Australian National Data Service
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