Welcome to the National Studies on Air Pollution and Health (NSAPH) Handbook#
This handbook offers information on data, software, and analysis for the NSAPH Group.
Mission and Core Values#
NSAPH’s Mission statement and Core Research Values and Workplace Values are here.
Web page#
NSAPH’s official web page is here.
Basecamp#
Basecamp is the main channel of communication of NSAPH. It is central to all meaningful collaboration and teamwork.
Once you’ve been added to Basecamp, from the homepage you can connect with people by joining multiple groups/projects. The two main groups are:
NSAPH Community brings together researchers, staff, and faculty from multiple universities and organizations with a common goal of understanding the impacts of environmental exposures and climate change on health outcomes and regulatory policy.
NSAPH Projects focuses on project specific discussions and project management.
Depending on your role, you can be added to additional groups/projects. Each group has message boards, chats, schedule information and more.
If you are going to start a new research project, read NSAPH Research Project Life Cycle.
GitHub presence#
A GitHub organization is a shared account where all organization members can collaborate across projects. NSAPH has five organizations on GitHub meant to help you find and use group resources.
If you do not have write access to a repository, ask for help. As an NSAPH member, it is not necessary to create forks to contribute.
NSAPH Projects - Host a GitHub repository for all NSAPH-led member projects; moving forward, all NSAPH member-led projects should have a project specific repository here;
NSAPH Software - The development of reusable software packages for analysis;
NSAPH Data Platform - Captures all the code that went into creating and maintaining the data platform;
NSAPH Data Processing - Captures the data pipelines for data transformations and aggregation;
NSAPH - Gathers past projects but will continue to be used for miscellaneous projects that don’t belong in the previous categories (no new analysis projects should be started here). By joining NSAPH Research Team, one can view members’ private codebases.