When health data go dark: the importance of the DHS Program and imagining its future

We discuss;

Consequences on the tracking of population health outcomes & behaviours.

Implications for national decision-makers & the global health community

Potential paths forward

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Inequities in #spatial access to childbirth care in Conakry, Guinea. Published in Nature Cities

► Disparities in #geographic access to facilities providing childbirth care

► Driven by skewed spatial distribution of facilities, heavy traffic & socio-economic disadvantage

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This short preprint usefully documents the disruption that trashing DHS program has caused across the world

“When Health Data Go Dark: A Call to Restore DHS Program Funding”

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We are raising an alarm about the effect of USAID funding cuts on essential population and health data.

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When was the last time you felt like a child in an amusement park? ✨

For us, just this Monday!

Appreciating the science, patience and mad skills that it takes to raise a tsetse fly colony @itmantwerp.bsky.social

Thank you to Prof Van Den Abbeele!🙏

Just published: ‘Getting the numbers right’ - on how healthcare workers navigate power & pressure when collecting MNH data in Tanzania. Ethnographic insights on the social lives of health data 🏥 tinyurl.com/3n8tcefh @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social

Congratulations to PhD student Cathy Birabwa for this paper which took over a year to write - thoughtful, deep, contextually specific analysis of women's pathways to emergency obstetric care.

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Digital data systems hold a lot of promise, but we should avoid ‘techno-utopian’ views of digital technologies as straightforward ways to fix problems in routine health information systems. Our qualitative paper 'Data for whom?' is now out in BMJ Global Health! gh.bmj.com/content/9/11...

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Dr Aliki Christou @alichristou.bsky.social presented at the 19th International Stillbirth Alliance Conference her FWO Vlaanderen post-doctoral research looking at the challenges with perinatal and stillbirth data availability, quality and use in health systems of Benin and Cambodia. 1/2

I haven't seen one out there yet, so I created a Sexual and Reproductive Health starter pack! Let me know who I missed that's here.

Looking forward to building back community here, especially as we gear up for these next few years.

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Looking forward to the International Conference on Urban Health in Marrakesh (18-21/11/24)

◾I will present ongoing work where we monitor hourly temperature in >30 locations in Lubumbashi city

◾This includes measurement in delivery rooms & within the compound of health facilities

www.icuh2024.org

"This #map represents what I know": the power of putting Lubumbashi’s #maternal healthcare services on the map

"Keeping the maps accurate therefore requires a continuous effort, which is unlikely to happen without local ownership."

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Pressure to meet targets to improve health outcomes for women and their babies can have unintended negative consequences. In this blog post, published on Harvard’s Maternal Health Taskforce website, I explain why.
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