Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment
In the context of the collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment is established in accordance with these Terms of Reference to serve as a broad scientific and strategic platform to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and application of methods on COVID-19 mortality.
The Technical Advisory Group (the “TAG”) will act as an advisory body to WHO and UN DESA in this area of work. Its primary role will be to advise and support efforts to assist WHO and UN Member States to obtain accurate estimates of numbers of deaths attributable to the direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic.
COVID-19 Mortality Assessment Groups
Methods for estimating the excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic
Featured meeting report | 19 May 2023
Methods for estimating the excess mortality associated...
This document provides details of the updated methodology applied to produce the estimates of excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic for a 24-month period (January 2020 to December 2021) at global, regional and national levels.
Member biographies
Observers
Emily Cercone
Project Officer
CDC Foundation
Arup Kumar Das|PhD
Public Health Specialist
Public Health Foundation of India
Haishan Fu
Director
Development Data Group
World Bank
Luciano Gonçalves
Researcher
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
Amelia Karraker
Health Scientist Administrator
National Institute of Aging
Farnaz Malik
Senior Program Officer
Vital Strategies
Martin Bratschi
Deputy Director Technical Implementation
Vital Strategies
Ernesto Cervantes
Proyecto Li
Anne West
Professor
Department of Social Policy
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Akphiri Richard
Statistician
Malawi Statistical Office
Mercy Kayuna
Commissioner of Statistics
Malawi National Statistical Office
Gregoire Rey
Director
CépiDc-Inserm, French epidemiology centre on medical causes of death
Piedad Urdinola
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
National University of Columbia
Enrique Acosta
Research Scientist
Laboratory of Population Health
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
John Phillips
Chief of the Population and Social Processes Branch
National Institute of Aging
Sondre Solstad
Data Journalist and Analyst
The Economist
Estifanos Shargie
Focal point for CRVS
MECA Team, The Global Fund
James Tozer
Data Journalist and Analyst
The Economist
David Zezai
Biostatistician
Global Health 5050
Eric Feigl-Ding
Chief Health Economist, Microclinic International
Senior Fellow, Federation of American Scientists
Andrew Stokes
Department of Global Health
Boston University School of Public Health USA
Samantha Dolan
Gates Foundation
Xavier Mancero
Statistician
Statistics DivisionUnited
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America
Alamgir Hossen
Statistician and focal point officer
Sustainable Development Goal Cell
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
Naama Rotem
Data Analyst
4M Analytics, Israel
Dr. Stefan Ma
Deputy Director
Statistics and Research
Ministry of Health, Singapore
Mirza Balaj
CHAIN Research Coordinator
Department of Sociology and Politcal Science
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dr. Afshin Ashofteh
Data Scientist and Statistician, Assistant Professor
NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS) of NOVA University of Lisbon,
and Research Fellow, Statistics Portugal
(INE)
Benoit Kalasa
Director, Technical Division
UNFPA
Guiomar Bay
UNECLAC
Witness Chirinda
UNFPA
Helena Cruz-Castanheira
Population Affairs Officer
UNECLAC
Tapiwa Jhamba
Technical advisor
UNFPA
Petra Nahmias
Chief of Population and Social Statistics Section
UNESCAP
Romesh Silva
Technical specialist
UNFPA
Danzhen You
Lead Statistician
UNICEF
Scott Dowell
Gates Foundation
Andres Gutierrez Rojas
Statistician
Statistics Division
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Janet Mucheru
CEO
Civil Registration Services , Kenya
Martin Nyahoda
Deputy Registrar-General
National Registration, passport and Citizenship, Zambia
Ilya Kashnitsky
Assistant Professor
Center on Population Dynamics
University of Southern Denmark
Terje Andreas Eikemo
Director and Leader, CHAIN
Department of Sociology and Politcal Science
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Please contact the Secretariat should you wish to apply / express your interest to act as an observer to the TAG : [email protected], [email protected]
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