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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.
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The 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.
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The CDC Foundation and Vital Strategies organized a CRVS data use workshop at the National Symposium and Stakeholder Consultation to Strengthen the Mortality Information System in India in February 2026.
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Kenya’s Ministry of Health’s Health Informatics Division, Central Coding Unit, and county teams launched the country’s first County Mortality Profiles for five counties.
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Paraguay’s interactive dashboard presents strategic indicators on injuries from external causes and violence, facilitating monitoring and analysis of the information at national and regional levels.
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At 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.
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Uganda’s Advanced Field Epidemiology Training Program fellows transformed data to actionable public health knowledge in a civil registration and vital statistics workshop.
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Ten 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, Howard University, The Pacific Community, and the World Health Organization.
