The Thailand Ministry of Public Health pilots condensed Data Impact Program trainings to advance the data use skills of government staff
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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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The Data for Health Initiative hosted a panel event, “Advancing Equity: Improving Population Health through Gender Mainstreaming in Policy” in an effort to foster greater regional collaboration and knowledge sharing on gender.
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Data Impact organized a regional Train-the-Trainers training in Africa to institutionalize the Data to Policy program and strengthen capacity of local facilitators who will help implement the training.
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The State of Maharashtra’s Public Health Department in collaboration with Data Impact developed an app to enable real-time data capture of healthcare facilities and resources for planning.
Read 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.
