Join as a researcher
Create a profile for collaboration, calls, working groups, and publications.
Join → Evidence • Ethics • Collaboration
Do research that respects people, protects data, and advances national digital health.
This portal supports ethical research collaboration, access pathways to curated datasets, publication and dissemination, and matchmaking with implementers—so research becomes real-world impact.
Your pathways in ZDHS
Research member • Working-group contributor • Pilot evaluator • Methods mentor
What you can do here
Find partners • Submit papers • Apply for calls • Request data access
Principles
Ubuntu ethics • Data sovereignty • Privacy • Benefit to communities
Top actions
Quick starts for research teams.
Submit a publication
Publish local evidence, lessons learned, and innovations in a national space.
Publications →Find collaborators
Browse experts across informatics, clinical, policy, and implementation domains.
Expert directory →Explore active pilots
Identify real-world settings for evaluation, implementation science, and outcomes research.
Pilot registry →Request ethical review support
Get help shaping privacy, consent, and governance sections of your protocol.
Ethics & governance →Ethics & governance
Responsible research that earns trust.
Protocol checklist
Minimum items: objectives, dataset scope, governance, consent, privacy, and risk mitigation.
Open checklist →Privacy & safety patterns
Access controls, audit trails, incident response, and safe AI use principles.
Open patterns →Data sharing agreement template
Standard clauses for permitted use, retention, publication, and accountability.
Open template →
Placeholders: these templates will be generated next. For MVP we can publish v1 templates as HTML + PDF,
and then evolve them through consultations.
Datasets & access pathways
Structured access without chaos.
Public datasets
Open, non-sensitive datasets and documentation for teaching and baseline research.
Browse →Controlled-access datasets
Request access with ethics approval and governance commitments.
Request access →Data documentation
Data dictionaries, cohort definitions, and quality notes to reduce misinterpretation.
Open docs →Request collaboration / data access
Tell ZDHS what you need—get routed fast.