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Samira Asma
@DrSamira_Asma
Assistant Director-General @WHO for Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact. Ensuring global health data is credible and has an impact.
May 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
@WHO launches data.who.int – a home of #HealthData for all. Together with partners we are making health data easier to find, browse, and use.

Learn more 🔽
who.int/news-room/feat…

(1/4) Image Datadot is the go-to place to track and drive progress towards health-related SDGs and #TripleBillion targets – like how the world is off track to reach the #UHC billion target and efforts need to be re-doubled.

Track SDGs: data.who.int

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May 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Excess mortality gives us a comprehensive, comparable picture of any crisis. Here’s why @WHO’s new excess mortality estimates for COVID-19 are incredibly important.
(1/7) Mortality can be associated with COVID-19 in different ways. Directly (deaths officially reported and not counted), indirectly (deaths due to unmet health needs) and deaths that didn’t occur (such as fewer traffic-related deaths due to lockdowns).
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May 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
@WHO @UNDESA #COVID19 excess mortality estimates reveal that the 5.4 million reported deaths from Jan 2020-Dec 2021 are a significant undercount. Let’s dive deeper into the findings. #HealthData

who.int/news/item/05-0…

🧵 (1/6) Image Excess mortality is the diff. between the number of reported #COVID19 deaths and the number expected based on historical data & statistical modelling.

Read more 👉 who.int/data/stories/g…

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Jan 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
New paper co-authored by myself & my @WHO colleagues. It covers data gaps in 47 low- and middle-income countries & their effect on achieving our health-related #SDGs & #TripleBillion targets.

Full paper 🔽
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
(1/5) Country’s progress to reach the #TripleBillion targets & health-related SDGs are tracked through 46 indicators. For many low-income countries, international surveys are the only way to monitor them and we found #HealthData gaps exist in all 47 countries. (2/5)