Data Needs for Accelerating Health and Extreme Weather Research
In this paper in published in Environmental Research: Health we surveyed researchers working at the intersection of extreme weather and health to identify major barriers to using and sharing data and code resources. We also asked about their most desired data or educational resources.
The most desired resources were analysis-ready datasets and educational materials on data management and analysis. Personal constraints such as lack of time were a major barrier to sharing data or code.
The survey results suggest that if we collectively invest in the expansion of data creation as a professional service, stronger knowledge sharing and collaboration, and improved research infrastructure, shared data resources will be enthusiastically adopted by researchers in this field to help to accelerate the pace of research to practice.
The survey instrument we used, as well as the de-identified survey results, can be found on the CAFE Dataverse.
