Vision
Vision Statement
The NHDC vision is transforming healthcare sector in Pakistan by safeguarding a patient-centric, innovation-focused, operational excellence, secured, compliance oriented, reliable, dependable and efficient data base to improve patient care, research and operations. The NHDC is for the provision of a strong infrastructure for continuous operations, enabling innovation through advance technology as well as partner ecosystems. By maintaining the highest standards of data security and data compliance, the NHDC is for an AI-driven diagnostics and telemonitoring of remote patients, through its secured data ecosystem.
Mission
Mission Statement
The NHDC is focuses on efficient management of seasonal and regional health information to improve patient care, support research and ensure data interoperability. This includes continuous collecting, collating and maintaining of data on various health topics, developing standards for data exchange to facilitate joint research and providing a secured as well easily accessible environment for data utilization, research, innovation for public health policies and prompt interventions.
Message
Director’s Message
Dr. Sadia Akhtar
As Director of the National Health Data Centre (NHDC) it is my honour and a privilege to lead a dynamic, professional, experienced and a multidisciplinary team committed to harnessing the effectiveness of data for better public health outcomes in Pakistan.
Established under the National Institutes of Health (Re-Organization) Act, 2021, the NHDC serves as the central repository of national health data mandated to collect, analyze, store, disseminate reliable and timely information to assist in formulating the national health policy, strengthen disease surveillance systems and guide strategic decision-making. The NHDC operates in close collaboration with the other institutes of NIH, federal and provincial health departments and international development partners to ensure that high-quality, interoperable and actionable data is available to support the evidence-based public health decision making and ultimately its responses from across the country and the world.
Our mission is to provide a seamless, secured and an integrated data ecosystem to formulate well informed national policies and to assist the policy makers in their decision making for improving the health indicators of Pakistan, in accordance with the global best practices and standards.
Through this work, we aim to:
- Enable data-driven decision-making by transforming raw data into actionable insights to formulate and strengthened national health strategies and health program priorities.
- Improve health outcomes by identifying national seasonal / regional disease trends, forecasting health risks, and guiding early public health interventions.
- Foster collaboration across social sectors and provinces by sharing standardized data that supports coordinated multisectoral responses to various health challenges.
Key Focused Areas
- Data Standards and Governance Frameworks:
NHDC ensures the implementation of robust governance frameworks to maintain data’s accuracy, completeness, timeliness, interoperability and security. We ensure that the standardized data collection and reporting protocols are followed in coordination with federal and provincial health departments. - Server System Housing, Management and Maintenance:
NHDC maintains a secured and scalable server infrastructure that houses national public health data including surveillance, laboratory and programmatic data-sets. - Data Storage, Security and Sharing:
As national health data repository, the NHDC is responsible for secure data storage and management with strong cyber security protocols. The NHDC facilitates reliable / dependable data sharing with the federal and provincial health departments and development partners while upholding confidentiality, integrity and accessibility. - Support Public Health Systems Through Data Dissemination:
The NHDC actively supports health systems by providing data hosting, data analysis and data visualization services. Through timely data dissemination the NHDC strengthens disease early warning system, outbreak detection and evidence-based public health planning at the federal and provincial levels. - Capacity Building in Digital Health Infrastructure:
The NHDC leads capacity-building initiatives for the federal and provincial health departments being focusing on digital infrastructure, server management, data storage and strengthening of health information systems. - Training and Technical Assistance:
NHDC provides HR trainings and technical assistance by holding workshops through professionally trained staff from NIH to provincial disease surveillance units and laboratories in order to improve the essential areas of data management, information security management, seamless system administration and development of analytical skill-set, mandatory for modern health data operations.
Looking Ahead
As Pakistan’s health system advances toward digital integration and data-driven governance, the National Health Data Centre remains committed in leading this transformation. The NHDC will continue to strengthen its infrastructure, develop innovative data analytics tools and explore and enhance collaboration with national and provincial partners.
Through these efforts and initiatives we aspire to build a resilient, transparent and an evidence-based public health system fully capable of anticipating/forecasting health challenges and in driving measurable improvements in our public health.
Center
Functions of the National Health Data Centre
- The national health data centre shall function as the central national repository for all aspects of health information and data.
- The centre shall perform such functions as are directed and assigned by the federal government or the board, including;-
- Access from relevant authorities information and data and house, collate and analyze all health information and epidemiologic data nationally;
- Establish a central repository for all aspects of health information and data to ensure its easy availability in digital format;
- Provide appropriate data analytics;
- To maintain and continually update data on maternal and neonatal health, neonatal, child health immunizations, adolescent and communicable diseases, and non-communicable diseases, population and demographics, health accounts, health services, health system including human resource, supplies, equipment and infrastructure;
- To develop and advise the adoption of the standards and methods standards and methods for efficient and secure exchange and interoperability of healthcare data and information.
- The centre shall ensure that its advice, policies, material, research and reports are available to the general public on the website of the NIH.
