2. Leadership and regional
action for strengthening
civil registration and vital
statitics
Prof. Alan Lopez
Health Information Systems Knowledge Hub
School of Population Health
University of Queensland
3. HMN’s main achievement
The HIS Framework
• First comprehensive HIS
description, covering
inputs, processes and
outputs
• Identified desirable
standards for each
component
• Key normative
publication, endorsed
by the WHA as a global
standard in 2007
4. HMN’s MoVE Initiative
• Keeping count: births,
deaths and causes of death
• A scandal of invisibility:
making everyone count by
counting everyone
• Civil registration systems
and vital statistics:
successes and missed
opportunities
• Interim measures for
meeting needs for health
sector data: births, deaths
and causes of death