BMGF Commits to Improving Health Data: Up to $95M for Two New 2015 Data Investments
| Type | Voluntary commitment by other stakeholders |
|---|---|
| Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Scope | Regional |
| Themes | Data, monitoring, and follow-up |
Description
1. First data commitment being highlighted includes up to $75m for the first 3 years of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS), which was first announced in June. CHAMPS is a network of disease surveillance sites that will help gather better data, in a faster way, about how, where and why children are getting sick and dying. This data will help the global health community get the right interventions to the right children in the right place to save lives. The network will also be invaluable in providing capacity and training in the event of an epidemic, such as Ebola or SARS. Engaged partners include the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (based at Emory University), the US CDC, and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine.
2. Second commitment highlighted includes an initial commitment of up to $20 million to the Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development (HBGD) knowledge integration (HBGDki) initiative, which aims to facilitate collaboration between researchers, quantitative experts, and policy makers to reduce the global burden associated with growth faltering, growth stunting and impaired neurocognitive development. To transform this data into pooled analyses and policy insights, the foundation is building a Global Health Analytics Platform (GHAP), which is a modelling, analysis, and interactive visualization tool. Key strategic partners include the World Health Organization, the Wellcome Trust, and the World Bank.
Partners
1. Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS) partners: International Association of National Public Health Institutes (based at Emory University), the US Centers for Disease Control, and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine.
2. Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development (HBGD) knowledge integration (HBGDki) initiative partners: World Health Organization, the Wellcome Trust, and the World Bank.
Targets
1. CHAMPS should more definitively track the causes of childhood mortality. By 2017 we anticipate having pathologically confirmed data from at least 6 sites in Africa and South Asia, for the first time providing definitive information on child mortality in a representative sample from some of the highest mortality regions of the world.
2. HBGDki will facilitate collaboration, data sharing and learning from extant longitudinal clinical studies and cross-sectional databases. This will allow HBGDki collaborators to learn from comprehensive data sets and analyses. The ultimate goal is to maximize the reduction in growth faltering burden by delivering lifecycle-targeted, comprehensive packages of interventions.
Indicators
1. improved disease surveillance and child mortality data and 2. improved collated data sets and information on nutrition growth faltering burden
Resources
Up to $95 Million in total towards these two data initiatives launched in 2015 (up to $75M for the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS), and up to $20M for the Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development (HBGD) knowledge integration (HBGDki) initiative).
Timeframe
1. CHAMPS: Initial results from the CHAMPS network will accumulate over the first 3 years of the system, and continue for at least 20 years. 2. HBGDki: by December, 2016