South Sudan is exploring integration of climate data and predictive modeling capabilities into existing DHIS2 systems for enhanced malaria early warning to support more timely and targeted interventions.
DHIS2 Climate & Health work in South Sudan is currently focused on improving malaria early warning through collaboration between the Ministry of Health (MoH), National Malaria Control Programme, HISP Tanzania, and the Malaria Consortium. It builds on existing locally owned DHIS2 systems while leveraging DHIS2 Climate & Health tools for data integration and predictive modeling, plus local innovations.
Updated: July 2026
South Sudan’s Ministry of Health has identified malaria as an initial focus area for piloting DHIS2 climate & health systems:
South Sudan faces one of the highest malaria burdens in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria remains a leading cause of illness and death across the country, with children under five and pregnant women among the most affected populations.
What makes the situation particularly complex is the recurring cycle of seasonal flooding, which displaces communities, disrupts access to healthcare services, damages health infrastructure, and creates ideal conditions for increased mosquito breeding and rapid malaria transmission. Response efforts to this cycle have largely remained reactive, and previously there has been no integrated, data-driven mechanism capable of anticipating high-risk malaria outbreaks early enough to support timely preparedness and intervention planning.
DHIS2 Climate & Health work in South Sudan builds on existing DHIS2 infrastructure and capacity, while leveraging innovative DHIS2 tools for climate data integration and predictive modeling.
DHIS2 has been used as South Sudan’s national health management information system (HMIS) since 2020, covering routine data on a range of health programs. DHIS2 is also used in South Sudan for disease surveillance, and for planning and management of ITN campaigns for malaria prevention.
HISP Tanzania, in partnership with Malaria Consortium and the NMCP, has developed the FLLOW-M dashboard, a custom application within South Sudan’s national DHIS2 system that integrates historical malaria surveillance data with climate indicators to generate predictive risk analytics and automated outbreak alerts. The dashboard includes tabs that summarize malaria trends and allow stakeholders to track severe cases, and a section that shows climatic suitability for malaria across the country and analyzes confirmed cases alongside key climate variables: temperature, precipitation, and relative humidity. It also contains sections for assessing predictive models, displaying forecasts of predicted malaria cases in a range of scenarios, and sending alerts when outbreak thresholds are reached, helping stakeholders to plan targeted actions. A pilot of this dashboard was launched in July 2026, including local capacity building for dashboard use.
The DHIS2 Climate App has been installed in South Sudan’s national DHIS2 instance, enabling integration of climate data and HMIS data in DHIS2. Temperature, relative humidity, and precipitation data are currently being drawn from globally available data sets, including ERA-5 Land and earth observation data. The import and harmonization of these data sets has been automated by HISP Tanzania using DHIS2 Climate Tools.
HISP Tanzania has installed the Chap Modeling Platform and DHIS2 Modeling App on the national DHIS2 instance in South Sudan and developed a custom middleware solution, Climate Automation & Prediction Scheduler (CAPS), to support the automated forecasting pipeline for the FLLOW-M dashboard.
In addition, based on the MoH’s interest, HISP Tanzania is working on a mechanistic model that can help analyze the cost-effectiveness of malaria prevention interventions based on predicted surges of malaria cases, to help assess whether additional mosquito nets should be distributed to specific areas during the country’s ITN campaigns.
South Sudan has an evolving policy landscape for climate and health that is supported by a network of partners.
South Sudan published its first National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in 2021 with the support of UNDP. This plan contains a short section on health, which notes that at the time of its writing that South Sudan did not yet have analyses of the potential health impacts of climate change at the national or subnational levels. It emphasizes the need to incorporate climate indicators into health systems and to improve early warning systems.
DHIS2 climate and health work in South Sudan is a collaboration between the Ministry of Health (MoH), National Malaria Control Programme, HISP Tanzania, and the Malaria Consortium.
Funding for initial work on DHIS2 climate and health systems in South Sudan has been provided by the Malaria Consortium. It builds on globally available DHIS2 tools developed through the Wellcome-funded DHIS2 for Climate & Health project.
Learn more about the DHIS2 Climate & Health work in South Sudan:
In this session at the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference, HISP Tanzania presents an update on DHIS2 for Climate & Health in South Sudan.
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Are you working on climate and health in South Sudan? We would love to hear from you. Contact the global DHIS2 Climate & Health project team at climate@dhis2.org, or connect with HISP Tanzania at: info@hisptanzania.org