TheraVita (Dr. Renata Micha) serves as a Scientific Committee member, engaged through Itkan Consulting Group, supporting the Saudi Public Health Authority’s national health and nutrition examination survey program.
Overview
The client context, challenges, audience, and objectives that shaped our approach and defined success.
Context
TheraVita (Dr. Renata Micha) serves as a Scientific Committee member, engaged through Itkan Consulting Group, supporting the Saudi Public Health Authority’s national health and nutrition examination survey program. The role focuses on scientific and methodological guidance to strengthen survey design, operations, analysis planning, and reporting quality—within strict confidentiality and governance requirements.
Objectives
Improve the scientific robustness and decision-readiness of a national nutrition and health survey by strengthening methodological choices, quality management, analysis planning, interpretation, and reporting—supporting credible, policy-relevant conclusions.
Requirements
Specific needs, deliverables, constraints, and compliance considerations required to achieve objectives within timeline and budget.
- Provide scientific and methodological guidance across survey design and implementation.
- Review survey questionnaires and recommend improvements.
- Review and provide feedback on the operational plan, including data collection, quality management, and statistical analysis planning.
- Review post-pilot results and recommend refinements prior to full-scale implementation.
- Participate in periodic meetings and technical workshops as required.
- Advise on interpretation of survey results and review deliverables/reports to improve accuracy and methodological quality.
- Operate under confidentiality obligations (NDA) and established governance.
Our Process
A stepwise, evidence-based workflow from discovery to delivery, measurement, iteration, and scalable knowledge transfer.
- Alignment on decision needs — clarify priority questions, target outputs, and scientific success criteria with stakeholders.
- Instrument review — assess questionnaires for clarity, validity, and feasibility.
- Operational & QA review — provide methodological feedback on field operations, data collection approach, and quality management.
- Analysis plan review — evaluate the statistical analysis approach for scientific defensibility and interpretability.
- Pilot learnings → refinements — review post-pilot findings and recommend targeted improvements ahead of scale-up.
- Interpretation & reporting — advise on interpretation and strengthen clarity and rigor of reporting outputs.
- Governance & confidentiality — deliver guidance under NDA and sponsor governance constraints.
Results
The measurable outcomes, qualitative feedback, and lasting assets that created value and informed next steps.
- Stronger survey quality and methodological rigor through ongoing expert review across instruments, operations, and analysis planning.
- Improved decision readiness of outputs via clearer interpretation guardrails and higher-quality reporting.
- Increased confidence in implementation by incorporating post-pilot recommendations prior to full-scale rollout.
- Governance-aligned delivery under strict confidentiality requirements.
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