Programme Committee decisions on the proposals submitted in the Call for Programme Proposals will now be sent on Wednesday, 22 May 2024.
A quick snapshot of the UN World Data Forum 2023 can be viewed here.
A quick snapshot of the UN World Data Forum 2023 can be viewed here.
Dec 13, 2023
Steve MacFeely
Mark Hereward
In the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, countries reported that 5.4 million people died of Covid-19. Tragic as this was, it is almost certainly an underestimate. At WHO we estimate during those same 2 years when we include indirect effects, or what we call excess mortality associated with Covid-19, the death toll was closer to 14.9 million deaths. In 2022 an additional 1.5 million deaths were reported. But for the exchange of scientific data, it could have been much worse.
Jun 13, 2023
Paddy Brock
Harriet Mugera
As the number of people around the world forced to flee their homes exceeds 100 million, the need for data to underpin effective responses has never been more urgent. However, the transition from situational assessments to high quality socioeconomic microdata on forced displacement produced by national statistical offices will take time. In the interim, can innovative approaches accelerate and enhance the generation and use of socioeconomic data on forced displacement to inform effective action? The consensus at a workshop held recently at UN City in Copenhagen was ‘yes, it can’, and the most fruitful opportunities identified were rooted in complementing and reinforcing traditional approaches.
July 30 2024, 10:00 to 11:00 am (ET)
The following key topics will be covered:
January 30 2024, 9:00 to 10:15 am (ET)
Key questions covered in this webinar will include: