Contrasting Analysis for Research and Policy

Malaria analytics – the systematic analysis of data for decision support or malaria policy – has a different set of tasks compared to a typical research scientists.

Malaria Research	Malaria Analytics
Interested in general questions about malaria	Focus on malaria in a defined geographical area
Use high quality data in controlled settings to design experiments with clear outcomes.	Estimate of core malaria metrics in a country using multiple data sources varying in quality and availability
X	Y
Z	C
D	E