Announcing CHAP: Predictive modeling & climate-sensitive disease forecasting in DHIS2

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Join our CHAP launch webinar on Thursday, 21 November, 14:00-15:00 CET

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The HISP Centre at University of Oslo (HISP UiO) is happy to announce the launch of the CHAP platform!

CHAP (Climate Health Analytics Platform) is a collaborative and open platform for harmonizing climate and health data, as well as importing, training, tuning, assessing, and sharing predictive models for climate-informed disease forecasting. It includes streamlined integration with the DHIS2 system for accessing health data and disseminating forecasts through the new DHIS2 Prediction App (currently in pilot stage), but is also fully functional as a stand-alone platform.

CHAP and the Prediction App are developed by HISP UiO, and are currently being tested in several countries in Africa and Asia as part of the DHIS2 for Climate & Health project. While our initial use cases are focused on forecasting malaria and dengue outbreaks, as a generic platform CHAP can potentially be leveraged for a range of climate-sensitive health impacts.

We are happy to share CHAP as both a free and open-source tool and collaborative project open to contributions by everyone interested in joint development of data processing, machine learning and software to advance the field of climate and health analytics. To learn more:

The CHAP launch webinar will include an overview and demonstration of CHAP, as well as updates from pilot countries.

If you have any comments or questions before or after the webinar, you are welcome to share them here in this topic. For further technical discussions about CHAP, we have created a new CoP subcategory for CHAP: Climate Health Analytics Platform - DHIS2 Community

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Can we be able to build custom models for disease prediction and add them to the app?

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@MarkOuteke we addressed this question during the end of the webinar: Yes, you can build custom models for disease prediction and use CHAP to train, run, and assess them. See the CHAP documentation here for details: Developing custom models with CHAP - Climate Health 0.0.13 documentation

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Thanks to everyone who attended the CHAP launch webinar! We were happy to get so many good comments and questions. Feel free to continuing the discussion here on the CoP.

You can find the link to the materials here:

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