CE-DAT - General CE-DAT Information

Experts Group (EG) Meetings

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The CE-DAT Expert Group is made up of selected experts who advise the CE-DAT team on the technical issues that it encounters in its daily activities. The members of the group are selected based on their personal expertise and experience in epidemiology, statistics and demography as applied to conflict settings.

Press Citations

davidhargitt — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:29:51 +0000

- Mamdani M. Darfur: the feelgood conflict, Le Monde diplomatique, 6 August 2009

- Mamdani M. There may have been no water, but the province was awash with guns, New Statesman, 4 June 2009

Proceedings of the 4th Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting

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The proceedings of the 4th CE-DAT TAG meeting are available.

About CRED

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The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been active for over 30 years in the field of international disaster and conflict health studies, with research and training activities linking relief, rehabilitation and development. It promotes research, training, technical expertise on humanitarian emergencies, with a special focus on public health and epidemiology.

Geo-referencing methodology

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To geo-reference CE-DAT data points, available ESRI shapefiles for the country are obtained from the ESRI ArcGIS v.9 Maps CD or downloaded from the US GIST or SALB online repositories down to the lowest non-place name administrative level.

Data entry

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When a new survey is received from one of our partners in the field, the first step is to save the file on the CE-DAT server and to print the survey report.

Relevant data within each survey is then identified and entered into the database. Contextual information is also extracted from the survey.

Guidelines

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Indicators included in the CE-DAT database

Nutrition
Global and Severe Acute Malnutrition
Global and Severe Chronic Malnutrition
Global and Severe Underweight
Other indicators: MUAC, Oedema, BMI

Mortality
Crude Mortality Rate
Under 5 Mortality Rate
Other indicators: Infant Mortality Rate, Maternal Mortality Rate

Vaccination
Measles coverage
Other indicators: BCG, Polio, DTP coverage

Frequently Asked Questions

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General questions:

Conferences and Workshops

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This section includes the results, discussions, and conclusions of past CE-DAT associated conferences and workshops.

Meetings

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TAG Meetings

Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meetings are organized annualy to assess progress of the CE-DAT initiative, discuss technical issues, gather input and feedback, and identify future directions.

EG Meetings

Expert Group (EG) meetings are made up of selected experts in epidemiology, demography and needs-assessments and who advise the CE-DAT team on the technical issues that it encounters in its daily activities.