Bloomberg Philanthropies | Data for Health Portal

The Data for Health (D4H) Initiative, co-funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Australian government, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, helps low- and middle-income countries collect better public health data. D4H works with governments to strengthen and standardize birth and death records and to better inform policy-making and improve public health outcomes. This resource library contains 300+ documents and materials generated through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative.


Domains

D4H primarily works on four major domains: cancer registries; civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS); data impact; and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Click on a domain to view associated resources. 

Cancer Registries

The Cancer Registries Program supports countries in establishing and bolstering population-based cancer registries to track cancer data, focusing on a combination of strengthening existing registries, building new ones where appropriate, and offering technical assistance and training activities. Our goal is to support a sustainable registry system that informs data-driven planning, including informing cancer control and prevention activities, prioritization and budgeting, and policy development

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Civil Registration and Vital Statistics

Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems aim to register all births and deaths, issue birth and death certificates, and compile and disseminate vital statistics, including cause of death information. D4H partners with governments to strengthen and standardize birth and death records to better inform policymaking and improve public health outcomes. 

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Data Impact

The Data Impact Program partners with governments to increase data utilization for public health planning and policy development. Through these partnerships, governments use data more effectively to address public health issues by emphasizing global best practices in data use. The Data Impact Program also emphasizes the importance of disseminating data with the general public and academia through training on communication, public health journalism, and scientific communication.

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Noncommunicable disease risk factor surveillance

The noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) program aims to improve the collection and analysis of major NCD risk factors through support to international experts to develop new mobile phone based surveys and support to country staff to administer surveys and analyze results. 

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Featured Collections

Collections are resources grouped by theme for your convenience--featured collections are rotated hourly. To create a custom list where you can save collections for later viewing, please visit your free D4H profile.

Mobile Phone Survey Factsheets

This series of factsheets gives an overview of key research findings in how to improve the performance of mobile phone surveys in low- and middle-income countries

SmartVA

This series of resources provides key information on the SmartVA tool

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