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
Media & Engagement
Media Coverage
Improving data improving health: Verbal autopsy for health systems strengthening
Worldwide, 65% of deaths go uncounted – here’s how to change that
When communities help authorities tally births and deaths, health care equalises
Engaging with communities can help tackle poverty linked health problems
Engagement
Improving data improving health: Verbal Autopsy for health systems strengthening
University College London - October 2016
Whose voices count? Doing research on the health of the poor
Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - November 2016
Health systems research: developing partnerships to understand and improve health
Organised by: MRC/Wits-Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand and Centre for Global Development, University of Aberdeen - November 2016
Creating new multi-site, multi-sectoral research collaborations in HDSS
INDEPTH Dissemination Event 2016, Kampala, Uganda - November 2016
Articles and other features
Royal Society for Public Health (2017). Improving data improving health: Verbal Autopsy for health systems strength. RSPH. Available at: https://www.rsph.org.uk/event/improving-data-improving-health-verbal-autopsy-for-health-systems-strength.html
D’Ambruoso L (2017). Local knowledge to reduce under-5 mortality: initiating participatory action research in rural South Africa. Maternal Death Surveillance and Response Action Network. Available at: http://mdsr-action.net/publications/local-knowledge-to-reduce-under-five-mortality/
D’Ambruoso L (2017). Improving data improving health: Verbal autopsy for health systems strengthening. Maternal Death Surveillance and Response Action Network. Available at: http://mdsr-action.net/publications/improving-data-improving-health-verbal-autopsy-for-health-systems-strengthening/