Mortality surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Vital Strategies Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, 100 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10006 United States of America (USA).
² Mortality Surveillance Programme, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³ US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, USA.
⁴ African Centre for Statistics, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁵ Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Ohio, USA.
⁶ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁷ Division for Data and Analysis, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁸ Statistics Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand.

Editorial

Philip Setel et al. Bull World Health Organ. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 1;98(6):374.

doi: 10.2471/BLT.20.263194.

¹ Vital Strategies Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, 100 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10006 United States of America (USA).
² Mortality Surveillance Programme, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³ US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, USA.
⁴ African Centre for Statistics, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁵ Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Ohio, USA.
⁶ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁷ Division for Data and Analysis, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁸ Statistics Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand.

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