Monitoring Health Progress: From Global Estimates to Local Health Data

The regular monitoring of key health indicators from mortality and morbidity to universal health coverage (UHC) progress is critical for the assessment of progress and performance, the development of strategies and plans, and the implementation of programs. This presentation will focus on the current balance between global estimates production and local data strengthening, the new challenges of the UHC 2030 agenda and the progress in using health facility data for subnational monitoring.

Ties Boerma, PhD, is professor and Canada Research Chair for population and global health in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. He also is director of the Countdown to 2030 for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health.

Boerma will be hosted by Carolina Population Center fellow Sharon Weir. Weir is an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Weir has collaborated with UNAIDS and the World Health Organization since 2009, co-chairing a working group to develop operational guidelines for monitoring and evaluation of HIV prevention and treatment programs for people who inject drugs, sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgender people.

Boerma is available to meet with Gillings School community members one on one or during a lunch. People who are interested in this opportunity can sign up online.

Please contact Osvelia Valverde, valverde@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions.