CHISU helps countries build resilient health information systems (HIS) that strengthen prevention and control of malaria outbreaks and epidemics. Malaria continues to be a major public health threat worldwide, with 249 million malaria cases in 2022. Better integrating malaria data into health information systems—and using that data to help target interventions—can help countries improve malaria program management.
Learn more about our malaria-related activities below.
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Ensuring historical data is part of Mali’s malaria story for better decision making
Mali's National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) decided to migrate historical malaria data to its national District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) platform, the country’s health information system platform that will also collect new malaria data in the future. CHISU supported NMCP in migrating the historical data to the national DHIS2…
Developing an automated malaria bulletin application to strengthen data use in Malawi
CHISU supported the development and integration of a malaria bulletin into Malawi's national District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) platform and provided subsequent training for malaria data users across the country to allow health workers to easily access malaria indicators.
Strengthening malaria surveillance in Madagascar using data dashboards
In Madagascar, CHISU developed a weekly malaria surveillance dashboard to improve the analysis and communication of surveillance data for decision makers to have timely malaria data. The dashboard brings data together to support early detection of epidemiological trends and rapid adaptation of interventions—critical improvements for a more…
Ensuring accurate data informs the Democratic Republic of the Congo's strategic response to malaria
CHISU worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to conduct an analysis of malaria-related deaths reported by health facilities between January and December 2023. The analysis identified erroneously reported malaria-related deaths and, in coordination with the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), CHISU guided the processes to correct these…
CHISU is partnering with health information system stakeholders in Burundi to advance the country’s HIS progression through better coordination, data management, and data use for malaria data by supporting a technical working group (TWG) and holding data analysis review meetings.
Streamlining data quality assessments to strengthen malaria efforts in Kenya
CHISU supported the transformation of the malaria routine data quality assessment (mRDQA) tool in Kenya so that it is now accessible as an Android application that allows users to analyze malaria data as well as coordinate and plan routine data quality activities. This application helps streamline data quality assessment processes, providing…
CHISU supported Burkina Faso’s plans to deploy ENDOS-BF in all 256 public primary health facilities in the seven health districts of the Centre Ouest region. With this approach, timely data entry rose from 66 percent in 2020 to 90 percent in 2021 then to 97 percent in 2022 for the Centre Ouest region.
The CHISU program works with Malawi’s National Malaria Control Program to improve the quality and use of the malaria data by targeting eight high malaria burden districts, including a data quality standard operating procedure (SOP), data quality training, and technical support for outreach training and supportive supervision (OTSS) and district…
CHISU provides support to the Ministry of Health for improving data analysis, holding regular meetings, conducting malaria routine data quality audits (mRDQA) and supervision in health facilities, conducting malaria data validation and review meetings. All of these activities contribute to improving the quality of data reported in DHIS2.
CHISU supports health information systems (HIS) governance as well as improved availability and use of quality health data in Malawi as the country works toward malaria elimination.
CHISU supported the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) to build the capacity of subregional staff in six selected regions of Ghana.
Ghana has earmarked six districts for malaria pre-elimination and has introduced a malaria DHIMS2 (District Health Information Management System) e-tracker into these districts to capture transactional data and improve the quality of data. Staff in the six selected districts were trained on its use to capture relevant data.
Join CHISU to hear about country experience in adopting and implementing mRDQA in Mali, Guinea, and Cote d’Ivoire. Countries will detail their successes, challenges, and solutions. We are hoping to see more countries engaging themselves in adopting and implementing a mobile app developed in Android to further improve the data quality of malaria.
The joint Scientific Days conference was held from May 20–23, 2024, at the University of Lubumbashi to share learning for malaria control.
Improving malaria data quality for better decision making in Mali
While malaria is a primary cause of mortality and morbidity in Mali, the country’s fight against the disease has made encouraging progress in recent years thanks to better data management and use. Read about how CHISU has supported Mali's National Malaria Control Program to customize and implement the Malaria Routine Data Quality Assessment (mRDQA…
Improving Kenya’s malaria response by revising epidemic thresholds
Malaria is a significant public health problem in Kenya, with nearly 4,000 people (most of them children) dying from it every year—and a significant proportion of the population is at risk of getting the disease. CHISU worked with Kenya's National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) and the University of Nairobi Health-IT (funded by USAID) to revise…
For CHISU Deputy Director Dr. Stephanie Watson-Grant, who recently traveled to several countries where the program works, the opportunity to visit country teams is “absolutely invaluable.” This is partly because she’s able to spend so much time with each CHISU expert (which she said equates to a year’s worth of being online), but also because she…