Child Health & Mortality Surveillance in Karachi, Pakistan: data-to-action webinar at AKU

Introduction to the CHAMPS work and network. Rosemarie Henson of CHAMPS Chief of Staff, Dr Portia Mutevedzi, Dr Shabina Ariff and Dr Momin Kazi spoke about CHAMPS in Pakistan for a hybrid webinar on October 11, 2024.
AKU's Dr Momin Kazi is leading CHAMPS in Pakistan, a network that aims to identify the cause of death for under-5 mortality and stillbirths at 7 sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through epidemiologic surveillance, by utilizing Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling (MITS), laboratory diagnostics including conventional and advanced histopathology and molecular screening of various pathogens, verbal autopsy, and available clinical and demographic data.
​Pakistan is among the ten countries in the world with the highest under-5 mortality. The new CHAMPS site is in three catchment areas in Karachi, Pakistan. The program in Karachi is being carried in collaboration with Aga Khan University Hospital and University of Texas, Southwestern.​
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