Background
Location(s)
United States
Indication(s)
COVID-19
Situation overview
To address the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States rapidly developed policies to protect the health of their staff and students. These policies were modified as we gained a greater understanding of the disease and to minimize any potential negative impact on education outcomes, while ensuring health and safety.
Challenge
Evaluating the effectiveness of different COVID-19 policies given the differences between regions and communities
How we helped
We used a quantitative biosurveillance approach for the uniform assessment of COVID-19 health and safety policy data for public school districts.
The integrated data science approach consisted of:
- Traditional biosurveillance methodologies
- Epidemiologic assessment
- Data engineering capabilities, a tailored methodology was developed to aggregate, vet, and analyze publicly available school district COVID-19
policy data
Outcomes
This approach allowed us to:
- Transform qualitative information into quantifiable measurements of data
- Develop a quantitative characterization of policy information that can be compared across a region or community
