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Counting the dead from infections: lessons from nationwide mortality studies
About half of the deaths in low income countries are not registered or medically certified for causes. To fill these gaps in evidence, nationwide mortality studies using verbal autopsies in a random sample of homes have been adopted with the Million Death Study in India, the Healthy Sierra Leone (HEAL-SL) study and elsewhere. Mortality data are informative to understand infectious disease epidemiology. Professor Prabhat Jha will illustrate the relevance of mortality data using examples of HIV in India, Malaria in India and Africa, and SARS-CoV-2 worldwide. He will also present OpenMortality.org, where some of the key data are freely available.
Date:
10 November 2025, 13:00
Venue:
Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details:
Seminar rooms
Speaker:
Professor Prabhat Jha (University of Oxford)
Organiser:
Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Organiser contact email address:
alison.lewis@ndph.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Alison Lewis,
Angela Brueggemann
