March 2025 HISP Highlights

Events

Professor Kristin Braa, director of the HISP Centre at the University of Oslo (UiO) shared a presentation called “Using climate data in DHIS2 for health sector preparedness & response,” as part of a faculty lecture series at the university’s Department of Informatics today. Her presentation featured the centre’s ongoing multi-year Climate and Health action-research project, funded by Wellcome Trust, that explores how low- and middle-income countries can integrate climate data into their existing DHIS2 health information systems to close the climate-health data gap, provide evidence for national climate change adaptation and public health policies, and support effective health interventions to respond to climate-related health risks. Read More

The HISP UiO and HISP Uganda DHIS2 for Education team traveled to Chicago to participate in the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) 2025 conference, along with partners from GPE KIX. Knut Staring, Monica Amuha and Terje Aksel Sanner all presented their research and work with digital systems for education infrastructure. Read More

HISP UiO lead a three-day Climate and Health modeling workshop last month in Oslo, bringing together partners who are working on climate and health disease modeling, as part of the DHIS2 Climate and Health project. HISP UiO has developed the Climate Health Analytics Platform (CHAP), which uses machine learning and allows health stakeholders and researchers to develop, assess, and use predictive models leveraging health data in DHIS2 systems harmonized with climate and environmental data. Read More

Partnership

HISP Uganda together with Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports and Save the Children Uganda, held a GPE KIX Research Overview Workshop in Uganda, showcasing research innovations aimed at empowering districts and schools with access and use of quality data powered by DHIS2 for Education. See the video

HISP Rwanda met with the new WHO representative in Comoros, Dr. Nkurunziza Triphonie, to discuss key topics related to strengthening digital health systems, including vaccination monitoring through the Electronic Vaccination Register, prospects and next steps to improve health systems, and opportunities for collaboration on future projects. See More

HISP Rwanda also shared an interview with UiO master’s student Guro Handeland, about how digital solutions are improving vaccine coverage in Rwanda. Watch video

DHIS2 for Education partners GPE KIX published a synthesis report that includes an overview of how DHIS2 can enhance education data management, informed by the research of our HISP UiO and HISP Uganda teams. The report also shares key recommendations and emphasizes the importance of capacity-strengthening within ministries of education, fostering collaboration across sectors, and ensuring the sustainability of data systems through adaptable, open-source solutions. See More

Training

A team from HISP UiO traveled to Ghana, 17-26 March, to conduct training on data quality and data use, as well as performing a core team assessment, setting up the DHIS2 data quality toolkit and the DHIS2 ICD-11 Mortality app, and assessing existing metadata and recommending improvements to strengthen data collection and data use in the country. Learn More

HISP Rwanda held a training on DHIS2 Climate and Health apps for Malaria control, bringing together key stakeholders like data managers, quality improvement officers, service directors and others from five pilot hospitals. HISP Rwanda is launching the pilot phase of its project to integrate climate data into health information systems, at both the national level (Malaria Program) and within the five selected pilot hospitals. Learn More

HISP WCA (West and Central Africa) and hosted a DHIS2 Academy on Systems Management, which included participants from 10 African countries, including Togo, Benin, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and Guinea. Learn More

HISP MENA (Middle East and North Africa) has shared Arabic-language video testimonials about the DHIS2 Academy it hosted in 2024, as it prepares for its Tracker Configuration Fundamentals Academy in May 2025. Learn More

HISP WCA, HISP Nigeria and HISP UiO hosted a strategic workshop on optimizing and cleaning up a DHIS2 instance, aiming to assess metadata maturity for better data structuring, improve system performance, and strengthen DHIS2 governance. Learn More

Our DHIS2 Latin America team traveled to Grenada last month, supporting a DHIS2 training course organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). This training, held 19-21 March, included health and IT professionals from Ministries of Health across seven Caribbean nations—Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Learn More