Our Mission
COMSA aims to improve the lives of Mozambicans by producing continuous annual data on mortality and cause of death at national and provincial levels for use by the government and policy-makers.
Our Mission
COMSA aims to improve the lives of Mozambicans by producing continuous annual data on mortality and cause of death at national and provincial levels for use by the government and policy-makers.
about comsa
COMSA is led and implemented by the government of Mozambique to develop a system for precisely and continuously counting births, deaths, and pregnancies…
project design
Community Surveillance Assistants are recruited, the COMSA project covers 700 clusters scattered throughout the country, each covering approximately 300 households…
Computer coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) algorithms are commonly used to generate burden of disease estimates using data from verbal autopsy surveys in low and middle income countries with poor vital registration data on causes of death.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health (JHSPH)
615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205
United States
Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS)
Vila De Marracuene, Estrada Nacional N°1,
Parcela N°3943,
Província De Maputo – Moçambique
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
Av. 24 De Julho 1989 Caixa Postal 493,
Cidade De Maputo – Moçambique
Email: comsa.pub@gmail.com