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.
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Today, approximately half of all deaths in the world go unrecorded; accordingly, health policy decisions are often based on inadequate information. Data for
Health, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and The Gates Foundation, partners with countries to improve public health data and use of data for policymaking.
Collaborating institutions in the Initiative are: Vital Strategies, CDC Foundation, Global Health Advocacy Incubator, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Pan American Health Organization, U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific, U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Howard University, The Pacific Community, and the World Health Organization.