HIS support is critical for needs assessment and program monitoring and evaluation. GHAP has continued to provide training and support for survey design, implementation, and data analysis. HIS components include population wide assessments for nutrition, water and sanitation, malaria, reproductive health, and morbidity and mortality. We have also continued to provide support for computers, software training, database management, networking, and other essential administrative support.

In 2004, The Center for Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health partnered with Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), ethnic minority health organizations, and GHAP to coordinate ongoing efforts to document the impact of human rights violations on health. GHAP provided technical support and training for a Health and Human Rights survey to measure the effect of forced displacement, crop destruction, and other human rights violations on infant and childhood disease and death. The resulting report has now (Sept. 2006) been released: Chronic Emergency: Health and Human Rights in Eastern Burma.

China-Burma Border HIS

In 2007, PC/GHAP has collaborated closely with the Kachin health department to conduct a first-ever, baseline health survey in Kachin state, Burma. Local surveyors were trained to conduct an in-depth, two-stage cluster survey with household, village and clinic level components. The results, we hope, will provide a significantly deeper understanding of common health issues and the state of the health system. The data collected, for instance, includes malaria screening results, HIV/AIDS knowledge and stigma indicators, DHS-style household & mortality figures, and obstacles to health care access & utilization information. Furthermore, a subset of the surveyors were trained in Global Position System (GPS) methodology to provide objective, georeferenced spatial data. The enhanced precision will improve the understanding of health care access issues.

GHAP will also provide significant assistance to the health department administrative staff to manage and analyze the data.

View the list of needed computer-related equipment.