Welcome to the  DSxHE's Download; our monthly informal, conversational and informative online Meetups!

These are open to anyone in the world, no matter what your level of experience and background. They are really just an opportunity to meet fellow DSxHE-ers and learn a few new things :-)

Join us for a chat with Ellen Coughlan for our next DSxHE Download. It's a regular show and tell of wonderful pieces of work in the health equity space with an IWD flavour - we're going to be discussing pieces of work or research that we admire by women who work to address health inequity through data science.

Ellen will be bringing a few pieces of work to chat about, including:

• A commentary by Dr Mahboubeh Shirzad & Dr Michelle R. Kaufman on the importance of collecting gender-disaggregated data to better understand and address health inequities faced by gender-diverse population. The paper describes examples of initiatives in gender-diverse data collection across the world, and the positive impact they have had on access to healthcare services. Find the paper here: Missing piece: the imperative of gender-disaggregated data in unraveling health inequity.

• Cheshire and Merseyside's data-led fuel poverty programme which won the Royal Statistical Society's Florence Nightingale award. Lucy Malcolm and the rest of her team linked data from the national fuel poverty data set to individual patient records in the Combined Intelligence for Population Health Action (CIPHA) dataset to identify patients experiencing fuel poverty and offer tailored support including lifestyle reviews and fuel payment support. Dianne Green, a Community Respiratory Nurse who implemented the service with her patients said "I’ve been a nurse since 1986, and we’ve never transformed lives like this. As a community nurse, we regularly go into patients houses but they never tell us that they can’t afford a light bulb upstairs, they never tell us that they’re really struggling to pay the bills…. The difference that we’ve made by looking at them and their lives through different eyes, using this population health technology, is unbelievable.”

  You can find out more about the initiative & access open source tools here.

Feel free to bring your own piece of research or project that has piqued your interest lately, or just join in the chat & listen to others.

Email Charlotte at info@datasceinceforhealthequity.com if you want to host next time & share your work or anything interesting that you've encountered lately. Or, if you're looking for some inspiration on what to share, why not have a look at the DSxHE Library?

See you there!