PacELF’s Data Warehouse Project Documenting the Validation of Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Pacific

Graves PM 1, Ichimori K 2, 1, Baba Y 2,, Wood P 1, Abeyasinghe R 3, Yajima A 3, Aratchige P 4, Ottesen E 6, King J 5, Whittaker M 1, Leggat P 1.

1James Cook University, Cairns & Townsville Australia; 2 Nagasaki University, Japan; 3 WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, Manila, Philippines; 4 WHO regional Office, Fiji; 5 WHO Neglected Tropical Diseases Control, Geneva; 6 Task Force for Global

Health, Atlanta, USA

WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE FOR THE CONTROL OF LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS, SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHS AND OTHER NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES (AUS-68)

Project Duration: July 2015 to June 2017

Project Goals – create a data warehouse (documents, catalogue, data &maps)

• Record and store history of PacELF program and it’s contributors

• Identify useful information sources for LF validation dossiers

• Extract epidemiology and governance data for academic journals & the PacELF book vol 2 (2017)

Number and type of catalogue records in July 2016

Total is 991 PacELF documents - hardcopy and electronic

• 660 in Nagasaki (c/o K Ichimori)

• 779 at James Cook University (c/o P Graves, P Leggat)

• 356 at WHO Fiji

• 136 at WPRO

• 138 at WHO Geneva

• 702 had data that may be useful for dossiers829 scientific papers, 210 annual & 157 meeting reports, 22 booksAlso includes technical reports, forms, surveys, workshops, fact sheets, news letters, emails, presentations, bibliography

• Long term storage of warehouse is in planning with James Cook University

Funded by USAID through Task Force for Global Health with support from WHO and JCU.

For more information, please contact Dr. Patricia Graves or Dr. Peter Leggat from James Cook University.

Patricia.Graves@jcu.edu.au & Peter.Leggat@jcu.edu.au

LF in Pacific Countries from before 2000, 2000 and then in 2015Analysis: Dr. Patricia Graves. Maps: Dr Peter Wood.

https://research.jcu.edu.au/who-collaborating-centres/tropicalmedicine

PacELF ENDGAME WAREHOUSE

DATA LIBRARY GIS DATA

(CATALOGUE) (MAPS)PROGRAM DATABASE

(ANALYSED DATA)

PacELF EndGame Book Vol 2 builds on ‘The PacELF Way - 2006’ (Shown below)

PICT Country permissions needed for data used in PacELF Endgame book volume 2

Pacific countries LF status in 2015

Pacific countries LF status in 2000

Pacific countries ever endemic for Lymphatic Filariasis (LF)

Year of catalogue records from 1912 to 2015

PacELF ENDGAME ProjectThe Pacific Program for Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis (PacELF) began in 1998 and continues to the present. Several Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) claim to have interrupted transmission of lymphatic filariasis (LF) and three have received validation of elimination as a public health problem from WHO. Validated countries are Niue Vanuatu and Cook islands. Validation requires submission of documentation of the program’s success to WHO.

To assist PICTs and donors to PacELF, James Cook University, Nagasaki University and WHO (WPRO, HQ and Division of Pacific Technical Support) collaborated on a data warehouse project to record & store the history of PacELF and its contributors via a catalogue of documents, analysis and maps. Generously funded by USAID through the Task Force for Global Health, sources of data for this project are published and unpublished documents since 1985 both hard copy and electronic.

Benefits of this project includes useful information sources for country NTD validation dossiers, the 2nd edition of the PacELF book to be published in 2017 & epidemiology and governance data for academic journal and advocacy articles. Currently almost 2000 documents have been catalogued and made available for elimination dossiers including the three WPRO countries that have recently been validated for elimination of LF. In 2017, a permanent warehouse of documents will be established for reference and access by countries and researchers.