CHAMPS Diagnosis Standards (DS) for Determination of Cause of Death (DeCoDe) provide guidance to standardize assignment of cause of death for each CHAMPS for which the Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling (MITS) procedure was performed. While not intended to replace clinical and pathological judgment, these DS will support both accuracy and consistency of cause of death […]
Building a Global Scientific Network When researchers can access reliable, comparable data from colleagues around the world, it broadens their scope of discovery. This is one of the reasons CHAMPS believes harmonized data collection and broad knowledge sharing are critical pathways to identifying new and effective solutions for child mortality. Harmonizing Data Collection It is […]
The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Program aims to identify and collect data on causes of stillbirths and deaths of children under 5 years of age in areas of Africa and South Asia with high infant and child mortality. The CHAMPS Program is designed to apply advanced laboratory methodologies, diagnosis standards and a […]