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The Host Study

InfoDengue is an arbovirus risk alert system that operates through integrated and timely analysis of climate and epidemiological data, selected to structure a Pathfinder study.

Launched in 2014 in partnership with Fiocruz's Scientific Computing Program (PROCC/Fiocruz) and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation's School of Applied Mathematics (FGV EMAp), the system operates at municipal, state and national levels. In addition to weekly arbovirus risk reports with predictive models for dengue and chikungunya, the research group addresses epidemiological analysis requests from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, responds to media inquiries, produces scientific articles, and organizes courses, seminars, sprints and conferences.

Process Mapping

A study of this scale can benefit from process mapping methodology, as this approach in an international context allows not only documentation but also the identification of improvement points.

Under the title "Mapping InfoDengue: Investigating New Solutions to Generate Useful Information for Management and Advances in Arbovirus Control Knowledge", the Pathfinder aims to trace the steps and processes of the InfoDengue host study to determine challenges and successes in generating health research evidence through the objectives:

• Create a process map of the host study to document selected steps and their associated metrics.
• Determine the tools, methods, approaches and systems applied at each step.
• Describe each challenge encountered and document how they were resolved.
• Identify new solutions to problems mapped during the process.
• Disseminate findings to support other studies in overcoming similar challenges and bottlenecks in their own research.

Key Outcomes

• A mental map (flowchart) with systematized study stages.
• Detailed information about tools, methods, skills and systems used, emphasizing their application and effectiveness at each study stage.
• Analysis of challenges and adopted solutions, explaining how they helped achieve study objectives, with emphasis on lessons that can be shared with similar studies.