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This study evaluated the program approach and lessons learned from the Program to Reduce Maternal Deaths in Tanzania, a 13-year effort to improve and sustain the availability of, access to, and demand for high-quality maternal and reproductive health care services.

This study evaluated the performance of an adapted and reduced version of verbal autopsy in identifying the underlying causes of non-forensic deaths in São Paulo, Brazil.

Verbal autopsy is a technique for determining the most medically likely causes of death, where no physician is available to complete a medical certificate of cause of death. This study analyzed the reliability of a particular model of verbal autopsy for estimating the probability that the causes of 112 deaths in São Paolo, Brazil, were associated with COVID-19.

Since 2015, Tanzania has been upgrading its civil registration and vital statistics system including efforts to improve the availability and quality of mortality data. In this case study, the computer application ANACONDA provided an effective means for evaluation of such efforts and helped target interventions to remaining weaknesses.

Vital Strategies, together with partners from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, has developed a series of technical guides, drawing on international standards, tools and concepts and provide users with practical and operational advice and strategic planning support for targeted CRVS system strengthening efforts.

Strengthening civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems can be challenging. Based on lessons learned from countries around the world, the CRVS Systems Improvement Framework provides countries with the tools to assess and improve their CRVS systems and processes. This self-guided e-learning course is designed to help learners implement the Framework.

This study evaluated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality by race/skin color in Brazil over the course of nine months in 2020. Excess mortality among black/brown populations was remarkably higher compared to the white population, being as high as 26.3%, and accounting for 58.9% of excess deaths.

This technical guide outlines the conceptual framework for population registers as the first document in a knowledge series being developed by the Pacific Community (SPC) and Vital Strategies with support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative.

This publication describes the development and implementation of the Colombia Rural Vital (CRV) strategy developed as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative.

This report conveys findings from a search of country and development agency websites and partner and media reports describing disruptions to the civil registration of births and deaths associated with COVID-19 restrictions. It discusses the implications for decision-makers facing an acute need for timely and reliable data, particularly on mortality.