GovTech · Health data
MSDAT 2.0
A national health data platform that lets policymakers read the country as a map before they read it as a table.
- Client
- eHealth4everyone (platform for the Nigerian health sector)
- Role
- Senior Product Designer → Product Manager
- Period
- Nov 2021 – Jan 2023
- Platform
- Web + mobile
- Status
- Deployed nationally
The problem
Nigeria does not lack health data. It lacks health data anyone can act on. Indicators sit in separate systems, collected by separate programmes, reported on different cycles — and the people who have to make budget and policy decisions with them are not analysts. They are administrators, commissioners and programme leads with a meeting in forty minutes.
MSDAT — the Multi-Sectoral Data Analytics Tool — existed to pull those indicators into one place. The question I was brought in to answer was how a non-analyst meets a national dataset without drowning in it.
What I did
Led the GIS mapping layer. I argued the entry point should be geography, not a table. A commissioner looking at their own state on a map understands the question before they understand the chart. The map became the front door.
Designed multi-indicator layering. Single indicators answer thin questions. Being able to put maternal mortality next to clinic density on the same geography is what turns a dashboard into an argument.
Moved from design into product management. I took the lifecycle of MSDAT 2.0 — scoping, sprint planning in ClickUp, coordinating data scientists, analysts, engineers and business, through release on web and mobile.
Built the ideation habit. Company-wide sessions in Miro and FigJam that pulled product ideas out of people who were never asked before — several shipped.
The hard call
Leading with a map is slower to build and heavier to load than leading with a table, on a platform where connection quality is not guaranteed. We took the cost because the alternative — a competent dashboard nobody could read quickly — was the failure mode we had actually seen.
What happened
- MSDAT 2.0 shipped on web and mobile with measured usability improvement at release
- Stakeholder approval of product direction rose materially across the 2.0 cycle
- Deployed nationally; the GIS layer remains the platform’s entry point
