Publications

2023

Fiksel, J., Gilbert, B., Wilson, E., Kalter, H., Kante, A., Akum, A., Blau, D., Bassat, Q., Macicame, I., Gudo, E. S., Black, R., Zeger, S., Amouzou, A., & Datta, A. (2023). Correcting for Verbal Autopsy Misclassification Bias in Cause-Specific Mortality Estimates. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 66–77.

Gilbert, B., Fiksel, J., Wilson, E., Kalter, H., Kante, A., Akum, A., Blau, D., Bassat, Q., Macicame, I., Gudo, E. S., Black, R., Zeger, S., Amouzou, A., & Datta, A. (2023). Multi-Cause Calibration of Verbal Autopsy–Based Cause-Specific Mortality Estimates of Children and Neonates in Mozambique. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 78–89.

Gudo, E. S. (2023). Mozambique Sample Vital Statistics System: Filling the Gaps for Mortality Data. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 3–4.

Jiwani, S. S., Mavie, V. A., Williams, E., Kante, A. M., & Amouzou, A. (2023). Implementing the Countrywide Mortality Surveillance in Action in Mozambique: How Much Did It Cost? The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 40–46.

Kante, A. M., Mulungo, A., Ibraimo, M., Akum, A., Titus, N., Adriano, A., Van Dyk, F., Macicame, I., Black, R. E., & Amouzou, A. (2023). Completeness and Factors Affecting Community Workers’ Reporting of Births and Deaths in the Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action in Mozambique. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 29–39.

Macicame, I., Kante, A. M., Wilson, E., Gilbert, B., Koffi, A., Nhachungue, S., Monjane, C., Duce, P., Adriano, A., Chicumbe, S., Jani, I., Kalter, H. D., Datta, A., Zeger, S., Black, R. E., Gudo, E. S., & Amouzou, A. (2023). Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action in Mozambique: Results from a National Sample-Based Vital Statistics System for Mortality and Cause of Death. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 5–16.

Magaço, A., Alonso, Y., Maixenchs, M., Ambrosio, C., Sitoe, A., Vitorino, P., Blau, D., Garel, M., Breiman, R., Amouzou, A., Bassat, Q., Mandomando, I., Blevins, J., & Munguambe, K. (2023). A Qualitative Assessment of Community Acceptability and Its Determinants in the Implementation of Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling in Children in Quelimane City, Mozambique. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 56–65.

Rahman, M. H., Macicame, I., Wilson, E., Nhachungue, S., & Amouzou, A. (2023). Verbal and Social Autopsy of Adult Deaths and Adult Care-Seeking Pattern in Mozambique, 2019–2020. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 17–28.

Rodríguez, D. C., Macicame, I., Adriano, A., Chicumbe, S., Duce, P., Kante, A., Mavie, V. A., Mbalane, E., Nhachungue, S., Titus, N., Van Dyk, F., & Amouzou, A. (2023). From External to Local: Opportunities and Lessons Learned from Transitioning COMSA-Mozambique. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 108(5_Suppl), 47–55.

2022

Carshon-Marsh, R., Aimone, A., Ansumana, R., Swaray, I. B., Assalif, A., Musa, A., Meh, C., Smart, F., Hang Fu, S., Newcombe, L., Kamadod, R., Saikia, N., Gelband, H., Jambai, A., & Jha, P. (2022). Child, maternal, and adult mortality in Sierra Leone: nationally representative mortality survey 2018-20. The Lancet. Global Health, 10(1), e114–e123. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00459-9

2021

Adedini, S. A., Thaele, D., Sello, M., Mutevedzi, P., Hywinya, C., Ngwenya, N., Myburgh, N., & Madhi, S. A. (2021). Approaches, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned in setting up an urban-based Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa. Global Health Action, 14(1), 1874138. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1874138

Basera, T. J., Schmitz, K., Price, J., Willcox, M., Bosire, E. N., Ajuwon, A., Mbule, M., Ronan, A., Burtt, F., Scheepers, E., & Igumbor, J. (2021). Community surveillance and response to maternal and child deaths in low- And middle income countries: A Scoping Review. In PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 3 March). Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248143

2020

Adair, T., Rajasekhar, M., Bo, K. S., Hart, J., Kwa, V., Mukut, M. A. A., Reeve, M., Richards, N., Ronderos-Torres, M., De Savigny, D., Muñoz, D. C., & Lopez, A. D. (2020). Where there is no hospital: Improving the notification of community deaths. BMC Medicine, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01524-x

2019

Hutain, J., Perry, H. B., Koffi, A. K., Christensen, M., O’Connor, E. C., Jabbi, S. M. B. B., Samba, T. T., & Kaiser, R. (2019). Engaging communities in collecting and using results from verbal autopsies for child deaths: An example from urban slums in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Journal of Global Health, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.09.010419

Mills, S., Lee, J. K., & Rassekh, B. M. (2019). A multisectoral institutional arrangements approach to integrating civil registration, vital statistics, and identity management systems. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 38(Suppl 1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41043-019-0179-z

Nabukalu, D., Ntaro, M., Seviiri, M., Reyes, R., Wiens, M., Sundararajan, R., Mulogo, E., & Boyce, R. M. (2019). Community health workers trained to conduct verbal autopsies provide better mortality measures than existing surveillance: Results from a cross-sectional study in rural western Uganda. PLoS ONE, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211482

Nichols, E. K., Ragunanthan, N. W., Ragunanthan, B., Gebrehiwet, H., & Kamara, K. (2019). A systematic review of vital events tracking by community health agents. In Global Health Action (Vol. 12, Issue 1). Taylor and Francis Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1597452

Singh, Y., Jackson, D., Bhardwaj, S., Titus, N., & Goga, A. (2019). National surveillance using mobile systems for health monitoring: complexity, functionality and feasibility. BMC Infectious Diseases, 19(Suppl 1), 786. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4338-z

2018

Helleringer, S., Arhinful, D., Abuaku, B., Humes, M., Wilson, E., Marsh, A., Clermont, A., Black, R. E., Bryce, J., & Amouzou, A. (2018a). Using community-based reporting of vital events to monitor child mortality: Lessons from rural Ghana. PLoS ONE, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192034

Usman, Y., Iriawan, R. W., Rosita, T., Lusiana, M., Kosen, S., Kelly, M., Forsyth, S., & Rao, C. (2018). Indonesia’s sample registration system in 2018: A work in progress. Journal of Population and Social Studies, 27(1), 39–52. https://doi.org/10.25133/JPSSV27N1.003 

2017

Davey, G., & Deribe, K. (2017). Precision public health: mapping child mortality in Africa. In The Lancet (Vol. 390, Issue 10108, pp. 2126–2128). Lancet Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32280-8

Gomes, M., Begum, R., Sati, P., Dikshit, R., Gupta, P. C., Kumar, R., Sheth, J., Habib, A., & Jha, P. (2017). Nationwide mortality studies to quantify causes of death: Relevant lessons from India’s million death study. Health Affairs, 36(11), 1887–1895. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0635

McLean, E., Dube, A., Saul, J., Branson, K., Luhanga, M., Mwiba, O., Kalobekamo, F., Geis, S., & Crampin, A. C. (2017). Implementing electronic data capture at a wellestablished health and demographic surveillance site in rural northern Malawi. Global Health Action, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2017.1367162

2016

Bangura, A. H., Ozonoff, A., Citrin, D., Thapa, P., Nirola, I., Maru, S., Schwarz, R., Raut, A., Belbase, B., Halliday, S., Adhikari, M., & Dr, D. M. (2016). Practical issues in the measurement of child survival in health systems trials: Experience developing a digital community-based mortality surveillance programme in rural Nepal. BMJ Global Health, 1(4). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000050

Bryce, J. (2016). “Real-Time” Monitoring of Under-Five Mortality: A Vision Tempered by Reality. In PLoS medicine (Vol. 13, Issue 1, p. e1001912). PLoS Med. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001912

JJoos, O., Amouzou, A., Silva, R., Banda, B., Park, L., Bryce, J., Kanyuka, M., Baugh, G., Hazel, E., Chimzimu, M., Lajia, K., Makoko, R., & Mleme, T. (2016a). Strengthening community-based vital events reporting for real-time monitoring of under-five mortality: Lessons learned from the Balaka and Salima districts in Malawi. PLoS ONE, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138406

Joos, O., Amouzou, A., Silva, R., Banda, B., Park, L., Bryce, J., Kanyuka, M., Baugh, G., Hazel, E., Chimzimu, M., Lajia, K., Makoko, R., & Mleme, T. (2016b). Strengthening community-based vital events reporting for real-time monitoring of under-five mortality: Lessons learned from the Balaka and Salima districts in Malawi. PLoS ONE, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138406

Silva, R., Amouzou, A., Munos, M., Marsh, A., Hazel, E., Victora, C., Black, R., & Bryce, J. (2016). Can Community Health Workers Report Accurately on Births and Deaths? Results of Field Assessments in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mali. PLOS ONE, 11(1), e0144662. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144662

2015

Amouzou, A., Kidanu, A., Taddesse, N., Silva, R., Hazel, E., Bryce, J., & Black, R. E. (2015). Using health extension workers for monitoring child mortality in real-time: Validation against household survey data in rural Ethiopia. PLoS ONE, 10(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126909

Kabadi, G. S., Geubbels, E., Lyatuu, I., Smithson, P., Amaro, R., Meku, S., Schellenberg, J. A., & Masanja, H. (2015). Data Resource Profile: The sentinel panel of districts: Tanzania’s national platform for health impact evaluation. International Journal of Epidemiology, 44(1), 79–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/IJE/DYU223

Munos, M., Koffi, A. K., Sangho, H., Traoré, M. G., Diakité, M., Silva, R., Doumbia, S., Keita, A., Keita, H., Terera, I., Black, R., Bryce, J., Joos, O., Koffi, A., & Wilson, E. (2015). Strengthening community networks for vital event reporting: Community-based reporting of vital events in rural Mali. PLoS ONE, 10(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132164

2014

Aleksandrowicz, L., Malhotra, V., Dikshit, R., Gupta, P. C., Kumar, R., Sheth, J., Rathi, S. K., Suraweera, W., Miasnikof, P., Jotkar, R., Sinha, D., Awasthi, S., Bhatia, P., & Jha, P. (2014). Performance criteria for verbal autopsy-based systems to estimate national causes of death: Development and application to the Indian Million Death Study. BMC Medicine, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-21

ha, P. (2014). Reliable direct measurement of causes of death in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Medicine, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-19

Brinkel, J., Krämer, A., Krumkamp, R., May, J., & Fobil, J. (2014). Mobile phone-based mHealth approaches for public health surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. In International journal of environmental research and public health (Vol. 11, Issue 11, pp. 11559–11582). Int J Environ Res Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph111111559

Lewis, G. (2014). The cultural environment behind successful maternal death and morbidity reviews. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 121, 24–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.12801

2012

Liu, L., Johnson, H. L., Cousens, S., Perin, J., Scott, S., Lawn, J. E., Rudan, I., Campbell, H., Cibulskis, R., Li, M., Mathers, C., & Black, R. E. (2012). Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: An updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. The Lancet, 379(9832), 2151–2161. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60560-1

2011

Mudenda, S. S., Kamocha, S., Mswia, R., Conkling, M., Sikanyiti, P., Potter, D., Mayaka, W. C., & Marx, M. A. (2011). Feasibility of using a World Health Organization-standard methodology for Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy (SAVVY) to report leading causes of death in Zambia: Results of a pilot in four provinces, 2010. Population Health Metrics, 9(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-40/FIGURES/3

2010

Qomariyah, S. N., Braunholtz, D., Achadi, E. L., Witten, K. H., Pambudi, E. S., Anggondowati, T., Latief, K., & Graham, W. J. (2010). An option for measuring maternal mortality in developing countries: A survey using community informants. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-10-74

2005

Setel, P. W., Sankoh, O., Rao, C., Velkoff, V. A., Mathers, C., Gonghuan, Y., Hemed, Y., Jha, P., & Lopez, A. D. (2005). Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: A renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics. In Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 83, Issue 8, pp. 611–617). World Health Organization. https://doi.org//S0042-96862005000800015

Yang, G., Hu, J., Rao, K. Q., Ma, J., Rao, C., & Lopez, A. D. (2005). Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges. Population Health Metrics, 3(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-3-3/TABLES/4