Data Science & Analytics
Family Planning National Training Center
Description
The Family Planning National Training Center for Service Delivery Improvement is part of UNC's efforts on the Family Planning National Training Center (FPNTC). FPNTC, and UNC's role on it, is supported by the Federal Office of Population Affairs, under the US Department of Health and Human Services. UNC's efforts focus on growing the federally supported Title X Family Planning workforce in leading change amidst complexity and uncertainty ("adaptive leadership"). One tool we support among teams is System Support Mapping, which structures individuals' description of their role, responsibility, needs, and resource assessments in family planning initiatives. With RENCI support, the team seeks to extract insights from a set of maps to describe systems in terms of who does what, and what they need, and to support ongoing planning to support team initiatives.
RENCI's Role
Howard Lander is using Graph Database and Web Technology to construct an interactive editable visualization of the System Support Maps and is collaborating with Dr. Lich on system design and future directions.