Cunningham, S.AShaikh, N.INhacolo, ARaghunathan, P.LKotloff, KNaser, A.MMengesha, M.M2024-08-032024-08-032019-10-09Cunningham SA, Shaikh NI, Nhacolo A, Raghunathan PL, Kotloff K, Naser AM, Mengesha MM, Adedini SA, Misore T, Onuwchekwa UU, Worrell MC, El Arifeen S, Assefa N, Chowdhury AI, Kaiser R, Madhi SA, Mehta A, Obor D, Sacoor C, Sow SO, Tapia MD, Wilkinson AL, Breiman RF. Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems Within the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Oct 9;69(Suppl 4):S274-S279. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz609. Erratum in: Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Feb 14;70(5):993. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1162.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31598663/https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz609https://hdl.handle.net/11288/597087Health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs) provide a foundation for characterizing and defining priorities and strategies for improving population health. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project aims to inform policy to prevent child deaths through generating causes of death from surveillance data combined with innovative diagnostic and laboratory methods. Six of the 7 sites that constitute the CHAMPS network have active HDSSs: Mozambique, Mali, Ethiopia, Kenya, Bangladesh, and South Africa; the seventh, in Sierra Leone, is in the early planning stages. This article describes the network of CHAMPS HDSSs and their role in the CHAMPS project. To generate actionable health and demographic data to prevent child deaths, the network depends on reliable demographic surveillance, and the HDSSs play this crucial role.enAttribution 3.0 United Stateshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/Child deathChild mortalityData methodologyDemographic surveillancePopulation healthArticleClinical Infectious Diseases