Counting all deaths by scaling up verbal autopsy, Tanzania

From February to March 2020, David Lenga from the Ministry of Health in Tanzania undertook a Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Fellowship through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health (D4H) Initiative at University of Melbourne (UoM), learning to apply tools and methods to understand verbal autopsy data as part of national plans for verbal autopsy scale-up in Tanzania. This profile documents David’s personal experiences and outcomes, and the broader impact his Fellowship might have on improving the quality of mortality data in Tanzania.

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CRVS Fellowship Reports and Profiles

The Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health (D4H) Initiative’s CRVS Fellowship Program at the University of Melbourne (UoM) provided fellows with an in-depth participatory learning and knowledge sharing opportunity to work with a country on their CRVS initiatives. These reports are written by...

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Domains
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Resource Type
Report
Topics
death registration
verbal autopsy
data quality
Country
Tanzania
Language
English
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