Malaria: Harnessing the power of routine health facility data
WHOA
Early-release course
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About This Course
The WHO Global Malaria Programme (GMP) launched the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria (GTS) 2016-2030 in 2016. The GTS recognizes the urgent need to address weaknesses in surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation. The transformation of surveillance into a core intervention in all malaria endemic countries is a key pillar of the strategy. Strengthening surveillance systems, as well enhancing the use of data for decision making are core components of Pillar 3.
Since the launch of the GTS, the GMP has developed a set of data standards, tools, and curricula materials to support countries to strengthen and monitor surveillance systems, and to support use of data for decision-making in all transmission settings. For countries using the District Health Information System 2 (DHIS2), these standards have been developed into the malaria modules.
This course will help you to define key malaria surveillance concepts, review and analyse core indicators, and interpret findings for effective decision-making and action-planning in malaria endemic countries.
Who is this course for?
Individuals who play a significant role in malaria surveillance, program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation:
- Decision makers in the ministry of health decision makers such as malaria program staff and health information system managers at national and sub-national levels
- Staff of partner organizations supporting the strengthening of the malaria program or health system strengthening
- Consultants and staff working at research institutes involved with the analysis of malaria data and/or efforts to improve the quality of malaria data
What will you learn?
How to:
- Interpret malaria surveillance cascades.
- Analyse core malaria indicators.
- Interpret trends in malaria incidence, case management, and preventative interventions.
- Use routine malaria data to inform decision-making.
- Identify malaria data limitations.
- Undertake corrective actions to address malaria data quality issues.
Assessment and Award
You will receive a WHO Academy Award of Completion after completing all the learning activities in modules 1 and 2. The award will be saved in your ‘My Achievements’ space and can be downloaded and shared.
Learning experience
Your learning journey has two sequential self-paced online modules that include interactive scenario-based exercises, reflection tasks and quizzes.