Datametrics Evaluations Boost Maternal, Child Health, Infectious Disease Response

Datametrics Associates Limited has highlighted however its probe and valuation enactment has shaped nationalist wellness policies, improved maternal and kid nutrition, and strengthened infectious illness surveillance crossed Nigeria.

Speaking during the organisation‘s 11th day successful Abuja, the Technical Director and CEO, Dr. Abiodun Feyikemi Ipadeola, said that since its constitution successful 2014 and commencement of afloat operations successful 2018, Datametrics has conducted implicit 40 large-scale evaluations and implementation probe projects that person straight informed wellness interventions and systems strengthening.

She explained that the organisation’s evaluations successful maternal, infant, and young kid nutrition (MIYCN) person helped implementing partners plan evidence-based initiatives to combat kid malnutrition successful aggregate states. “Our findings person been translated into nationalist policies and programmes that proceed to interaction maternal and kid wellness positively,” she said.

On infectious diseases, Ipadeola noted that Datametrics has supported evaluations connected COVID-19 vaccination access, malaria control, Lassa fever surveillance, and arboviral infections, generating information that has guided Nigeria’s nationalist wellness response. She added that the organisation’s enactment has besides strengthened surveillance systems and provided grounds for timely interventions.

Beyond disease-specific evaluations, Datametrics has besides contributed to teen wellness and nutrition, gender-based unit prevention, and wellness extortion successful conflict-affected areas, ensuring that susceptible women and children are safeguarded done amended programme design.

To people the anniversary, the organisation combined its probe absorption with societal responsibility, donating nutrient supplies to Hope for Survival Orphanage successful Abuja and distributing sanitary pads and penning materials to astir 1,000 students of Government Secondary School, Jabi, implicit 450 of whom were girls.

Ipadeola stressed that research, younker empowerment, and innovation stay cardinal to Datametrics’ future. “We are committed to integrating caller technologies successful information collection, mentoring young researchers, and ensuring that our enactment continues to pass policy, amended wellness outcomes, and thrust sustainable societal impact,” she said.

She urged policymakers, improvement partners, and stakeholders to enactment data-driven wellness initiatives, noting that evidence-based strategies are important to addressing Nigeria’s nutrition, infectious disease, and teen wellness challenges.

“Datametrics is much than a probe firm; it is simply a level for change. Our 11-year travel reflects however information tin alteration wellness systems, empower communities, and lend to nation-building,“ – Ipadeola said.