This past year, our dedicated team has achieved remarkable progress in mortality surveillance across Northwest Syria. Here are some highlights: 🚀 Conducted over 600 interviews in 8 months, led by 3 Supervisors & 20 Community Health Workers. 🔍 Developed Syria’s first mortality surveillance system using verbal autopsy. đź’ˇ Implemented a reliable, cost-effective system for collecting …
Civil registration and statistics of systems in countries around the world is vital to improving a citizen’s quality of living. Mortality surveillance particularly takes strides in improving the safety of citizens. Mortality surveillance specifically works to record and process deaths that occur in a certain area and analyze these records to pinpoint specific causes of …
As founders of MakeDeathsCount (MDC), we were honored to share our experiences and insights at our alma mater, Yale University, on improving mortality surveillance in low and middle-income countries, particularly in Northwest Syria. Our journey began as MPH students at Yale where we delved deep into the world of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) …
Guest Lecture: Yale University School of Public Health Read More »
In a recent presentation at the University of Mississippi, I had the opportunity to share my journey as a recent Yale School of Public Health graduate and a fourth-year medical student at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn. Alongside me was my colleague, a fellow Yale graduate and now a Quality and Patient Safety Consultant in the …
