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Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT)
Improving health outcomes for children (under 5-years, and 5 to 9 years) is a priority for WHO and UNICEF. CHAT was developed to harmonize and standardize indicators to monitor child health and well-being outcomes across a variety of domains including education, nutrition, mental health, violence, environment, injuries as well as communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
The need for standard indicators is driven by the large number of global initiatives that have been created to meet targets for child health and well-being set by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the past and the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This means that data are being captured by different sectors, disciplines and with different levels of disaggregations. Harmonized indicators are needed to streamline efforts and to focus on measuring the impact of our work to improve child health.
The Child Health Accountability Tracking group (CHAT) will meet this need and will also provide guidance and standards for data collection tools and analysis. The group is Co-convened by WHO and UNICEF (the joint Secretariat) and supported by USAID.
The need for standard indicators is driven by the large number of global initiatives that have been created to meet targets for child health and well-being set by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the past and the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This means that data are being captured by different sectors, disciplines and with different levels of disaggregations. Harmonized indicators are needed to streamline efforts and to focus on measuring the impact of our work to improve child health.
The Child Health Accountability Tracking group (CHAT) will meet this need and will also provide guidance and standards for data collection tools and analysis. The group is Co-convened by WHO and UNICEF (the joint Secretariat) and supported by USAID.
Objectives of CHAT:
To provide a platform for sharing and discussing the work of key child health and well-being initiatives and relevant work of UNICEF and WHO aimed at the achievement of child health related global goals and targets.
To identify priority activities and measurement gaps in child health and well-being.
To create a catalogue of standard indicators and validated tools for measuring and monitoring child health and well-being indicators.
CHAT TAG
Members of the CHAT Technical Advisory Group were selected from applicants responding to an open call for independent experts in monitoring and evaluation of child health. The selected experts (13 in all) have a broad knowledge of child health epidemiology and experience working with in a wide range of low and middle income countries. They include clinicians, epidemiologists, demographers, statisticians and program implementers.
Co-Chairs :
Ambrose Agweyu
Health Services Unit | KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairboi, Kenya
Neil McKerrow
Maternal, Child and Women's Health, Dept of Health Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Joanna Schellenberg
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Experts:
Cynthia Boschi-Pinto
Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Melinda Munos
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Diparidé Abdourahmane Agbèrè
University Teaching Hospital of Tokoin and Regional one of Lomé-Commune, Togo
Paola Friedrich
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Sayaka Horiuchi
Teikyo University, Japan
Marzia Lazzerini
Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Tieste, Italy
Abdoulaye Maiga
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Masum Billah
Maternal and Child Health Division, icddr, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ralf Weigel
Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health/ School of Medicine, Witten, Germany
Suzanne Farhoud
International Expert of Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, Cairo, Egypt
WHO related links
- Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescents Health (2016-20130) Data Portal
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
- Improving the quality of paediatric care: an operational guide for facility based audit and review of paediatric mortality
- Ending preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025: The integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)
- Maternal & Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Policy Indicators database
- Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development
- WHO Global Health Estimates Mortality & Burden of Disease
- WHO Global Health Observatory
Related links (external)
- UN IGME : UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
- UNICEF: State of the World’s Children Report 2017
- UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
- UNICEF’s Data site
- Countdown to 2030 for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health
- UNICEF Country Profiles
- Maternal and Child Epidemiology Estimation
- Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation (DataDENT)
- Early Childhood Development Action Network
- USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program: Child Health Task Force
- Pneumonia Innovations Network
- Stop Pneumonia – Every Breath Counts Campaign
- Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
- The Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation