HISP Highlights October 2026

October brought DHIS2 partners together in Kigali, where HISP Rwanda hosted the DHIS2 Technical Gathering on the Global Fund Digital Health Impact Accelerator integration projects, and took HISP UiO teams to Uganda to learn from users of the Ministry of Health’s new DHIS2-based eRegisters. Climate-health work continued to gather pace, with Chap and early warning efforts in Senegal, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Education data systems were in focus from Ethiopia and The Gambia to Nigeria and the GEM Report launch in Oslo. Closer to home, the HISP Centre celebrated another PhD defense.

This month’s highlights include the Advanced DHIS2 Workshop for Eastern Caribbean countries in St. Vincent; the DHIA technical gathering in Kigali; a field visit by HISP UiO’s software and communications team to explore Uganda’s eRegisters; HISP WCA’s climate and health mission in Senegal and preparations for Chap deployment in the DRC; HISP Uganda’s work with the Ministry of Health to validate malaria early warning signals; the completion of HISP UiO’s Data.FI engagement supporting Madagascar’s national DHIS2 platform; and Vetle Alvenes Utvik’s PhD research on digital platform ecosystems as innovation commons.

Scroll down for these updates and more from Training, Implementation, Partnership, Events, and Publications & Presentations.

Training

Advanced DHIS2 Workshop in the Caribbean
HISP UiO colleague Juan Manuel Alcantara was in St. Vincent in October, facilitating the Advanced DHIS2 Workshop for the Eastern Caribbean Countries, hosted by the Ministry of Health of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Data analysts, epidemiologists, statisticians, IT managers and environmental health, health information and surveillance staff came from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, joined by PAHO consultants. More

DHIS2 Academy on Logistics Management
HISP West and Central Africa (WCA) hosted a DHIS2 Academy on Logistics Management in Lomé. The academy was full of exchanges, focused on mastering DHIS2 tools for a more efficient, transparent and responsive supply chain. More

Training on DHIS2 for Education in Ethiopia
HISP Ethiopia conducted a data management training for the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) program, supporting implementers and school principals as well as users from the region, zone and Woreda education offices in Benishangul-Gumuz Region. The training focused on the use of the TaRL data management information system, powered by DHIS2, to strengthen education data management. More

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute Training
HISP Ethiopia held an intensive DHIS2 training for members of the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute regional focal points, focusing on practical data management and decision-support tools. The interactive workshop guided participants through the complete data lifecycle, providing practical experience in entering data into pre-configured forms and utilizing Tracker Capture for tracking agricultural entities and extension activities. More

Implementation

eRegisters Field Visit in Uganda
A team from the HISP Centre at University of Oslo (HISP UiO) traveled to Uganda in October, exploring the Ministry of Health‘s new DHIS2-based eRegisters. A joint DHIS2 software and communications team from Oslo—Max Krafft, Karoline Tufte Lien, Eirik Haugstulen and Ellen Summey—went to learn more about the new system, conducting interviews with local, district and national-level system users and health officials, as well as partners at the Uganda CDC and Uganda WHO office, and the development and implementation teams at HISP Uganda. This followed an earlier visit by HISP UiO colleagues Olav Poppe and Melaeke Serawit, who also visited a local health facility in Kampala in October, and worked to identify areas where the DHIS2 core software and its implementation could be improved.   More

Digital Health Impact Accelerator technical gathering
HISP UiO’s Integration Working Group organized the DHIS2 Technical Gathering on the Global Fund Digital Health Impact Accelerator (DHIA) integration projects, hosted by HISP Rwanda in Kigali, 26–30 October. HISP and Ministry of Health teams from Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and West and Central Africa presented and demonstrated their integrations, including Ethiopia’s iHRIS-DHIS2 integration. They then discussed remaining challenges and next steps. HISP UiO also shared recent work from Oslo’s extensibility team. More

HISP UiO Completes Data.FI Work
HISP UiO and implementing partner HISP Rwanda have completed a five-month engagement with Data for Implementation (Data. FI), a project implemented by Palladium to strengthen the national DHIS2 platform of Madagascar’s Ministry of Public Health. The work covered server administration and hosting, a redesigned monthly reporting form, data quality, and epidemiological surveillance, as well as a five-year development plan for the national DHIS2 core team. More

Climate & Health in Senegal
HISP West and Central Africa (WCA) colleagues Sakibou Alassani and Sylvia Gomado led an October mission to Senegal dedicated to the configuration of analysis tools and dashboards in DHIS2, as part of the Global Fund Climate and Health project. The work focused in particular on setting up tables, graphs, and maps to visualize seasonal malaria chemoprevention stratification results; and establishing an alert system adapted to the needs of health actors. Conducted in collaboration with Senegal’s Division of Health and Social Information Systems and National Malaria Control Program, this initiative will make the analysis results more accessible and actionable to inform decisions. More

Strengthening Health Systems in Somalia
HISP Tanzania concluded a six-day field visit to Mogadishu, working alongside partners on the FaRID and UNICEF Somalia projects to strengthen health information systems. During the visit, the team met with partners and health teams, addressed practical implementation challenges, and agreed on next steps to strengthen Somalia’s health information systems. More

Chap Deployment in the DRC
HISP WCA colleagues Dr. Souleymane Samake and Komna Ibrahim participated in a workshop in Kinshasa organized by the Health-Environment Task Force, with the technical support of HISP DRC and HISP WCA. The event brought together the National Health Information Directorate, the National Malaria Control Program, the Directorate of Epidemiological Surveillance, the National Institute of Biomedical Research, the Public Health Emergency Operations Center, the National Agency for Meteorology and Satellite Remote Sensing and the General Secretariat for Health, and focused on integrating external data into the national health information system, which runs on DHIS2, and preparing for the deployment of the Chap Modeling Platform. More

Strengthening Malaria Early Warning in Uganda
HISP Uganda, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Uganda (MoH), is working to operationalise a malaria early warning system using the DHIS2 Chap Modeling Platform. Following a recent trial run of the forecasting models, the HISP Uganda team worked alongside the MoH Environmental Health Department, National Malaria Elimination Division, and Division of Health Information and Management to validate model-generated early warning signals against local conditions in South Buganda. More

National Emergency Triage and Referral in Tanzania
HISP Tanzania hosted a delegation from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH) at the HISP Tanzania offices as part of their joint project formulation study on strengthening the National Emergency Triage and Referral System in Tanzania. The visit provided an important opportunity to discuss how Tanzania’s existing digital health infrastructure can support a more connected and responsive emergency medical system; from triage and patient referral to continuity of care, monitoring and national-level decision-making. More

Digitalization of School Bulletins in The Gambia
HISP WCA colleague Adu-Gyamfi Eric led a technical mission with Julienne Trenou to The Gambia in support of the World Bank-funded Accountability and Performance Monitoring Program (PAMP), making it possible to automate and connect the digitized school bulletins to the central DHIS2 system. In addition to the technical configuration of school bulletin dashboards, this intervention supports system sustainability through the transfer of skills and the adoption of standard operating procedures (SOPs) by local users. More

Partnership

Learning Exchange for Education Information Systems
HISP WCA and HISP Nigeria conducted a dynamic exchange and mutual learning session around the implementation of DHIS2 in the education sector in Nigeria. This initiative is an opportunity to share experiences, capitalize on best practices and strengthen the technical capacities of the teams. The discussions focused in particular on the mid-term evaluation of the implementation of DHIS2 and the reflections on the development of a monitoring system for out-of-school children. More

Africa CDC Fellows in Uganda
HISP Africa hosted 15 fellows from Cohort 3 of the Africa CDC Public Health Emergency Management fellowship on 22 October, during their study visit to Uganda coordinated by the Ministry of Health’s National Public Health Emergency Operations Centre. HISP Uganda led a technical session demonstrating how DHIS2-based digital health information systems support disease surveillance, early warning, and emergency response. More

Events

HISP UiO Joins GEM Report Launch
DHIS2 for Education senior adviser Sophia Kousiakis joined a panel discussion moderated by Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report Director Manos Antoninis, focused on how education data can support national decisions as well as global monitoring, at the UiO launch of the GEM Report 2026 on Oct. 23. Kousiakis said gaps between national and international education figures often come from how data systems are designed—not from errors. Drawing on fieldwork with education ministries in Mozambique, The Gambia and Togo, she noted that most systems count enrollment once a year through an annual school census. More

Africa HealthTech Summit
HISP Africa participated in the 2026 Africa HealthTech Summit in Kigali, taking part in the conversations shaping Africa’s health future.
The event brought together more than 5,600 delegates, and highlighted one core message, that data must be at the forefront of better healthcare. The HISP Africa team was delighted to connect with partners working to turn data, technology, and partnerships into stronger health systems across Africa. More

DIDIDI Meeting in Paris
HISP Uganda attended the DIDIDI — Digital Dashboards in Diagnostic Innovations intellectual property workshop, general assembly and progress-feedback sessions in Paris. The workshop discussed affordable diagnostic microscopy with climate research, DHIS2 integration and the development of a new generation of researchers. The HISP Uganda team is deeply involved in these topics with our ongoing climate–health work, our support to national information systems and the doctoral research of staff members Samuel Sekiwere and Justine Fay Katwesige. More

Publications & Presentations

HISP UiO colleague Vetle Alvenes Utvik successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo’s Department of Informatics in October. Vetle’s thesis, “Digital Platform Ecosystems as Innovation Commons,” asks how digital platforms can be governed so that many different actors can innovate together for the public good, not just for profit. More

AMR Research from HISP India
HISP India Senior Data Scientist Dr. Vinay Modgil and coauthors Arunima S. Mukherjee and Prof. Sundeep Sahay have published research in Springer Nature exploring the critical role of health information infrastructures in strengthening antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship. More

HISP news from across Africa
HISP Ethiopia and HISP Rwanda have published their latest newsletters and HISP Uganda has shared its 2025 annual report during the last month, with lots of interesting stories and updates from their work! More: HISP Ethiopia  |  HISP Rwanda  |  HISP Uganda