The Knight Foundation is ready for your ideas about how to analyze public health data. What do you want to know about public health? What insights would affect public policy? If your idea is good enough, you may get a slice of the $2 million prize money in this challenge.
The foundation is asking for ideas about how to use this data. Winners will receive The submission process started this week and you have 13 days to get your idea in.
There are 14 entries so far. These two ideas are the most unique:
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This is a great opportunity to crunch some of the federal data that has been released in the last 12 months. I’d like to see some money go to support Fred Trotter’s DocGraph project:
The DocGraph dataset shows how doctors, hospitals, laboratories and other health care providers team together to treat Medicare patients. This data details how the health care system in the U.S. delivers care.
Increasing the transparency in healthcare is as important as access to care. Supporting the kind of analysis that the DocGraph project has started would be one of the best ways to spend some of this $2 million.
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What about using public health data to find cancer hot spots? There are plenty of startups developing genetic tests to predict a predisposition to cancer. Think if we knew what people are at a higher risk of cancer due to environmental issues. Researchers and entrepreneurs could target their testing within those groups of people. In Louisville, there are a lot of questions about the coal ash waste ponds on the western side of town. It would advance the discussion tremendously if we had an independent data analysis of the health of people in this neighborhood.
Or what about low levels of nutrition? If we knew where kids were not getting enough fresh veg, we could send a Garden on the Go truck to those neighborhoods every week.
There is additional money for projects focusing on certain areas.The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will award a combined $100,000 for the top three projects that best use public health data and health care data to improve the health of communities. And California HealthCare Foundation is offering another $100,000 total for one or more projects focused on helping county and city officials use health data for policymaking.
Submit your idea here .
If you want advice on how to craft your pitch, you can attend virtual office hours 1 to 2 p.m. ET Sept. 5 and 1 to 2 p.m. ET Sept. 10. Access the meeting online (http://kng.ht/17oNg89) (ID 752 815 136), or via phone at 888-240-2560.