State Data Committee

About the Committee
The State Data Committee is an active committee with responsibility for the following:

• overseeing the collection and presentation of state data and directory information for the Annual Report (published in Birth Defects Research Part A)
• developing definitions, policies or procedures (e.g., data sharing, data suppression, confidence intervals, etc.)
• coordinating data use and data sharing
• providing and coordinating technical assistance in areas such as, study design, analysis and publication

The Committee has worked on many collaborative projects including those focused on preterm births, gastroschisis/ventral wall defects, oral clefts (WHO International Database on Craniofacial Anomalies), and NTD mortality/survival. Project and policy work is conducted in work groups that report progress to the full committee during its monthly conference calls.

Data can “Deliver A lot of The Answers”!

Contact Information
Committee Co-Chair: Mark Canfield, Ying Wang