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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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 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.
