Measles, Maps and Media is a project created as part of the "Data and Programming for Policy Makers" course at the Harvard Kennedy School. The course took place over two weeks in January 2020, and the entire site, its visualizations, and its background research were completed in this time period. The course was run according to an agile methodology and included overviews of, inter alia, web development, command line, GitHub, and data visualization using python and D3, and open source code.
Intrigued by the space where global health equity, innovation and data science meet, Chevy is pursuing a Master in Public Health at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Previously, Chevy spent over four years working with private, public, non-profit and academic institutions to implement digital health projects in fourteen countries across sub-Saharan Africa.
Alina came to the Kennedy School after working as a local election commission web developer. Passionate about the intersection of technology and government, she is currently completing her Master in Public Policy with the aim of working in digital government.
A Chilean public servant, committed to expanding opportunities for children and allowing them to fulfill their potential. Ingrid has prior training as an educator and engineer, and experience in classroom teaching, as well as the design and implementation of education policy. She is currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School, with focus on the challenges of policy implementation in developing contexts and program evaluation.
Leonie is a lawyer, with an academic background in economics, who specializes in international arbitration, public international law and legal technology. She is currently pursuing a Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is exploring how to fight corruption using both international law and technology tools.
The Maps, Measles, and Media team would like to thank Dhrumil Mehta for his help and encouragement and for inspiring us to approach policymaking and life not just as consumers, but as producers:
In the extreme, consumerism is a form of learned helplessness. In consumer culture, making is something we've forgotten we can do. It has pushed us from the mainstream to the margins. However, there's something else available: We can see ourselves as producers. In maker culture, we define ourselves based on what we can do, and what we can learn to do.- Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds by Dale Dougherty