A hands-on workshop in Kigali strengthened RBC and MOH staff’s ability to obtain, manage, analyze and report mortality and surveillance data which will improve disease trend monitoring and public health communication.
Learn MoreThe Data for Health Initiative has supported regional workshops on the WHO’s cause-of-death analysis tool ANACoD3 to strengthen data quality assessment and application to public health.
Learn MoreAt the 2023 Festival de Datos, a global data conference held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, the Data for Health Initiative team led sessions on civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) and public health surveillance before a gathering of global health and data experts from 93 countries.
Learn MoreTen D4H countries participated in a workshop in New Delhi, India on vital statistics business process improvement to strengthen their vital statistics production processes and share learnings.
Learn MoreBloomberg Philanthropies | Data for Health Initiative
The Initiative, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies is providing technical assistance to 20 low- and middle-income countries worldwide to improve public health data systems. The Data Impact Program, focusing on data use, is one of three Initiative components; the other two components focus on data collection and quality: improving civil registration and vital statistics systems and developing new tools for noncommunicable disease risk factor surveillance. Collaborating institutions in the Initiative are: Vital Strategies, CDC Foundation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health Advocacy Incubator, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the World Health Organization.