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Dr. Alan Lopez, Melbourne Laureate Professor and Rowden-White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement in the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in Australia

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    Published: November 18, 2013

    GiveWell spoke to Alan Lopez about strengthening health information systems. Topics discussed included the history of the Health Metrics Network, the major barriers to improving vital registration systems (i.e. systems that track births, deaths and causes of death), the growing momentum around the vital registration agenda, and funding priorities for surveillance systems.

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