From ASLM 2018 - Describing Planwise a tool that supports systems and networks to plan better using travel times, population density, and locations of sites to model how best to enhance or grow a network.

1. Planwise: Data Driven Planning
December 2018 | Geospatial planning tools for smarter decisions on services
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2. Data Gets Used
Data Is Valued
Data Gets
Updated
Increases in Value
The Problem #1 - Core Data Service
Issues in how resource and health system strengthening decisions are made

3. Planning to improve care, typically is done with:
● Limited data +
● Faulty assumptions +
● Selection Bias +
= Irregular, Imprecise or $$ Consultants
How can we facilitate data driven decisions, to maximize
impact of services?
The Problem #2
Issues in how resource and health system strengthening decisions are made

4. Point A
Point B

5. Complex Systems:
● 1000’s locations
● Millions of people
● Complex demand
patterns
Identify Where:
→Too Far
→Too Much Demand
The Problem
Issues in how resource and health system strengthening decisions are made

6. Demand Data Access Data Capacity Data
OSM
The Solution - How it Works
Country Adjustments
by Experienced GIS Experts
Models & Algorithms
Walking, Bike, Movement, DEM, RS
PlanWise

7. Project Types Guided Workflow
Planwise

8. Regional to Local Insights
Customizable Scenarios
1

9. We can now:
● See where health inequity is most severe
● Model scenarios and associated costs for where we can
have the most impact
● Understand selection bias of surveillance and monitoring
strategies
Benefits for Users
Where the tool is now, what next steps we are exploring

10. Benefits for Users

11. Benefits for Users

12. We Don’t Know the Impact Yet - Want to help?
● We are assembling a group of researchers to iterate
and continue to improve algorithms.
● We also want to compare traditional planning
approaches to this one; to understand how many more
people will have access per cost
The Impact
What Planwise can provide in terms of making a difference

13. Demand Data Access Data Capacity Data
OSM
The Solution - How it Works
Country Adjustments
by Experienced GIS Experts
Models & Algorithms
Walking, Bike, Movement, DEM, RS
PlanWise

14. v1 Released
✓ Load Providers
✓ Demand for 6 countries ready
✓ Model walking, driving, distance
Catchment
✓ Find best new, upgrades,
enhancements by cost + impact
✓ **Getting Faster
Feedback / Next Steps
→ Improve set-up workflow
→ Add customized algorithms
→ Add more demand data and
modify
→ Combine scenarios in
unified summary
→ Better Exports to 3rd party
tools e.g., ArcGIS or Tableau
Feedback and Next Steps
Where the tool is now, what next steps we are exploring

15. How To Get Involved?
The ASLM Team is Looking For…
1. Partners to help to collect lab data and run lab
registries per country
1. Partners that want to use data to make smarter
investments
1. Work with us to test it out with your programs.
4. Help with the code, this is all FOSS
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16. Thank you!
Scott Teesdale - Program Lead
steesdale@instedd.org
Twitter: @scotttees & @instedd
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