Mpumalanga Health Policy and Systems Research
Learning Platform
Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VAPAR):
Expanding the knowledge base through partnerships for action on health equity
Recording of seminar
Interview with Professor Byass accompanying seminar
Measuring global burden of disease: adding value to verbal autopsy
Prof Peter Byass, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umea University, SWEDEN May 2020
Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science 2020 Seminar Series Professor Peter Byass 11th March 2020
The causes of half the world's deaths pass unrecorded by routine registration systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Verbal autopsy (VA) collects information from witnesses of a death to assign medical causes. This talk presents developments in VA methods.
Prof. Peter Byass was Professor of Global Health at University of Umeå, Sweden, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Aberdeen, Scotland and the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Peter worked on population health measurement in Africa and Asia, contributing to global evidence and methodologies. Peter sadly died, suddenly, in August 2020.