Using Data to Advance Racial Equity in Healthcare

Existing health disparities in the U.S. are heavily influenced by the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, known as the social determinants of health (SDOH). Health outcomes can also be influenced by differential applications of emerging technology and differential effects of climate change.

Aligning Open Data, Open Source, and Hybrid Cloud Adoption in Government

These developments have been acknowledged and formalized via governmentwide strategic initiatives including the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, the Federal Data Strategy and implementation of the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, and the Federal Source Code Policy.

Matt Rumsey

Matt Rumsey is the research and communications manager at CODE. He has experience in open government data as an advocate, policy analyst, and researcher. Prior to joining CODE, Matt worked as an independent researcher with organizations including the Data Foundation, CODE, and the Sunlight Foundation. He conducted research and wrote policy and briefing papers on topics including DATA Act implementation, grants data standardization, legal entity identification, the interaction between open data and privacy, and open research data.

Research and Communications Manager
Center for Open Data Enterprise

Matt Rumsey is the research and communications manager at CODE. He has experience in open government data as an advocate, policy analyst, and researcher. Prior to joining CODE, Matt worked as an independent researcher with organizations including the Data Foundation, CODE, and the Sunlight Foundation. He conducted research and wrote policy and briefing papers on topics including DATA Act implementation, grants data standardization, legal entity identification, the interaction between open data and privacy, and open research data. He got his start in open data at the Sunlight Foundation, where he worked on federal policy initiatives. He advocated for passage and effective implementation of the DATA Act, conducted research and advocacy around executive branch open data efforts, and helped to conceptualize and draft what would become the OPEN Government Data Act. Matt has a B.A. in history from American University in Washington, D.C. You can email him: Matthew@odenterprise.org.