Data and evidence
Timely, credible, reliable, and actionable data are key to ensure that political decisions are data driven and facilitate understanding, monitoring, and forecasting.
Read more about the Regional Office’s work on supporting Member States in strengthening their health information systemsNews
- Putting health at the centre of post-COVID recovery: WHO European Region faces stark choices that will shape its future
- WHO/Europe and IHME sign agreement cementing collaboration on forecasting of health data
- WHO/Europe urges countries to collect gender data through their health information systems
Events
Better data for better health webinar #5: Guidance for creating impactful health reports
8 December 2021, 10:00–11:00 Central European Time (CET), virtual
Top story
WHO/Europe and IHME sign agreement cementing collaboration on forecasting of health data
WHO/Europe and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) have signed a memorandum of understanding cementing their ongoing collaboration in the areas of health estimates, projections and global health data forecasting.
Highlighted publications
Guidance for health information system governance (2021)
Tools for making good data visualizations: the art of charting (2021)
Latest research
A call to strengthen data in response to COVID-19 and beyond (J Am Med Inform Assoc, Mar. 2021)
European health information gateway
The Gateway provides curated, reliable health data and information in user-friendly formats for comparison and extraction. This film explains the background to the Gateway and why health information is important.
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