The latest edition of the Primary Health Care (PHC) Leadership Course in Sri Lanka featured strong contributions from the Health Data Collaborative (HDC), underscoring the growing importance of data, digital, and AI-driven approaches in strengthening PHC systems.
The University of Health Sciences (UHS), together with the WHO Country Office and the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO), successfully concluded a half-day workshop focused on integrating digital health into health sciences curricula.
The Centre for Health Systems Policy and Innovation of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the WHO Country Office, hosted a high-level stakeholder consultation on the Global Reference Framework for Health Data Governance.
The Health Data Collaborative (HDC), in partnership with UNAIDS, successfully concluded its global webinar titled “Advancing Health Data Governance from Policy to Practice – for HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)”.
A high-level roundtable held at the United Nations in Geneva convened leaders from governments, international organizations, and development partners to accelerate investment in digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems across the Francophone world.
WHO is developing activities to support the country pandemic preparedness and to mitigate the current COVID-19 pandemic which is accompanied by an infodemic.
Availability of comprehensive information on service availability and readiness of facilities to offer quality health services is key in informing policies to achieve Universal Health Coverage. For this reason, Kenya's Ministry of Health, together with development partners and counties, has planned to carry out a Harmonized Health Facility Assessment.
Key health indicators in Garissa County in eastern Kenya have improved in recent years. Skilled deliveries for women in childbirth have increased from 23% in 2013 to 45% in 2017, and the number of children immunized against vaccine-preventable diseases has risen by more than 20% in the same time period. Improved health data is being seen as one of the important drivers of these advances.
Launched in March 2016, the Health Data Collaborative (HDC) was established to strengthen country health information systems to meet the challenge of monitoring the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals and boost the development of robust sustainable national health monitoring systems. This report is a cumulative look at the accomplishments of the Health Data Collaborative since its inception.
In many countries, the quality of data gathered at health facilities and capacity to analyse and use this data remains inadequate to support decision-making that will accelerate Universal Health Coverage. A number of partners, programmes and countries have been trying to address this problem through fragmented efforts such as single disease-focused facility surveys and parallel data systems. Now, HDC partners have come together to establish a harmonized approach to strengthening facility-based data quality, analysis and use.
To solidify commitment from the government and partners to the Tanzania Health Data Collaborative, which was launched in September 2017, a communiqué on the Tanzania HDC’s six M&E priorities for collective action was signed on 7 February during a ceremony at the Ministry of Health.
The first workshop of the Countdown to 2030 / Health Data Collaborative regional initiative to generate evidence and strengthen country analytical capacity for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health was organized by the African Population Health Research Centre (APHRC) in Nairobi, Kenya, 27 November – 1 December 2017.
The launch of the Tanzania HDC to establish One Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the Health Sector of the Government of Tanzania took place September 11-13 in Dar es Salaam, attended by 145 participants across the Ministry of Health, the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government, and partners.
