Using ProPublica’s Lost Mothers, a dashboard of stories of maternal mortality in the US

Media organizations play a huge role in humanizing data to the general public. In order to raise awareness of the…

Understanding the role of open data in the Philippines to improve maternal health and child care

Open data can unlock potential solutions to address health issues. Faculty from De La Salle University explore how open data…

Using electronic immunization registry data

Centralized and digitized data on immunization paves the way for greater timeliness of data collection on immunization rates and it…

Integrating verbal autopsies into CRVS

Less than a third of deaths are assigned without a cause, and low-income countries have the most gaps in cause-of-death-data….

Closing the CRVS coverage gap by including marriages and divorce

Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) cover data across major moments in time: births, deaths, marriages, divorces. Major initiatives across…

Using the Gender-Age Marker tool during project design and monitoring

Having high-quality and disaggregated data are important for monitoring and evaluating outcomes in development programs. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Gender-Age…

Analyzing sex and gender differences in COVID-19 infections

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, more men have been dying of acute COVID-19 infections, while women are projected…

How gender and sex-disaggregated data are critical for COVID-19 response

To understand the impacts of COVID-19 in health care systems around the world, gender analysis intersected with social and demographic…

How crime and helpline data show the impact of COVID-19 in reported gender-based violence

To understand the severity of gender-based violence (GBV) during the COVID-19 pandemic, crime and helpline data can provide insights in…

The role of Tweets in understanding family violence during COVID-19

Big data can serve as a short-term solution in understanding family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent academic article,…