Kemri-Wellcome Trust Research Programme: Building an Integrated FAIR-Compliant Data Catalogue and Decision-Support Platform to Maximise Research and Public Health Impact

Despite generating large volumes of valuable research data, many research institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) struggle to make these datasets discoverable, interoperable, and usable for policy and public health decision-making. Data generated through surveillance systems, clinical trials, laboratory platforms, and implementation research are often fragmented, inconsistently described, and poorly connected to routine health information systems, limiting their scientific and policy value. A key reason for this gap is the lack of institutional infrastructure needed to organise, discover, and integrate research data. Many institutions lack structured metadata standards, data catalogues, and interoperable systems that enable datasets to be easily identified, accessed, and securely linked. As a result, FAIR data principles remain difficult to implement in practice. This project will establish a foundational institutional data ecosystem at the KEMRI–Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP). It will develop a standards- based data catalogue, implement a data warehouse linking research, surveillance, and contextual datasets such as climate and geospatial data, and create decision-support dashboards translating integrated data into practical insights for researchers and health system stakeholders. The project will also generate practical lessons and reusable frameworks to support responsible data discovery, integration, and use across research institutions and health systems.

Programme: Discretionary Award

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