Carla AbouZahr

Carla AbouZahr

Carla AbouZahr is CRVS country adviser at Vital Strategies, as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative. She worked at the World Health Organization in Geneva for over 20 years on improving estimates of maternal mortality before becoming coordinator for statistics, monitoring, and analysis.

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Opinion: The COVID-19 gender mortality gap — is civil registration the answer?

Opinion: The COVID-19 gender mortality gap — is civil registration the answer?

over 5 years ago // Sponsored by Vital Strategies

During the global COVID-19 crisis, accurate and timely mortality data is invaluable. Yet systemic underregistration of women’s deaths is likely affecting how completely they are counted amid the pandemic. Vital Strategies explains.

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