Preventing the Next Pandemic: CHISU Advances Shared Data for Global Health Security
October 16th, 2024 | news
A midwife enters patient data in eCHIS at the Mikawa Health Center in Aleltu woreda, Ethiopia. Photo credit: Benti Ejeta/JSI
The COVID-19 pandemic was a sobering demonstration of the critical importance of global health security to prevent zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases from becoming major global health threats. The One Health approach acknowledges that human health is intrinsically linked with animal health and the environment, requiring multi-sectoral collaboration across government ministries. Robust health information systems (HIS) not only include routine health data, but also integrate multi-sectoral disease surveillance data that help countries prevent, detect, and respond to risks while monitoring essential primary health care services.
USAID’s Country Health Information Systems and Data Use (CHISU) program, the Agency’s flagship health information and data use project led by JSI, partners with over 20 countries to strengthen their HIS and increase the quality, availability, and use of health data for better planning and adaptive programming. CHISU is working with several countries to better integrate data from across veterinary, zoonotic, health, and environment government ministries to improve coordinated responses to health threats through shared data.
The One Health approach acknowledges that human health is intrinsically linked with animal health and the environment, requiring multi-sectoral collaboration across government ministries.
