CHAMPS Resources
August 1, 2024
Translating findings from child mortality audits into life-saving interventions: CHAMPS Sierra Leone success story.
In 2021, there were 104.7 deaths per 1,000 live births among children under the age of 5 in Sierra Leone (1). From the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) findings of 610 minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) cases reviewed from February 2019 to December 2022, the determination of cause of death (DeCoDe) expert panel […]
July 11, 2023
CHAMPS Impact Report, July 2023
Advancing CHAMPS Mission to Save Children’s Lives Since 2015, the CHAMPS Network has been at the forefront of building knowledge on the causes of child deaths in high-burden settings and generating evidence for action to save young lives. From pioneering innovation in the design and implementation of global surveillance to interacting with a broad spectrum […]
August 29, 2019
CHAMPS Diagnosis standard
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 […]
October 23, 2020
Research Protocols and Definitions
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 […]
February 28, 2024
CHAMPS Manual
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 […]
Expanding Partnerships
CHAMPS teams are working with global partners and public health leaders to ensure they have ready access to CHAMPS data for analysis, policy development, and public health action. Expanding access to CHAMPS’ growing body of results is a high priority for the network. Partners actively using CHAMPS data include: […]
Establishing New Sites
In 2023 CHAMPS will establish a site in Karachi, Pakistan, led by partners from Aga Khan University and the University of Texas, Southwestern School of Public Health. By providing information from a second CHAMPS site in South Asia, the Pakistan CHAMPS site will substantially strengthen our understanding of causes of stillbirths and child deaths from […]
Inspiring New Leaders
We are excited to implement the CHAMPS Leadership Center initiative. Launched in 2023 in Bangladesh, the Leadership Center aims to direct health and demographic surveillance system activities for the network and provide technical support to CHAMPS sites as they build or improve their local systems. Our disseminated leadership model aims to place key network positions […]
Addressing New Scientific Questions
Impact CHAMPS supports new lines of scientific inquiry through innovative use of our network. Questions CHAMPS is investigating include: Were children who died of malnutrition lacking specific nutrients? With a new grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CHAMPS will test micronutrient levels in samples from deceased infants and children in six sites in […]
Leveraging the CHAMPS Platform
Impact The CHAMPS platform—experience, infrastructure, and relationships—enables CHAMPS teams to support additional scientific work and respond to emerging health needs. Collectively, the CHAMPS network builds capacity by mentoring scientists, providing feedback to health personnel, and empowering communities to ensure sustainable health improvements. CHAMPS provides open access, summarized and de-identified data in real time and upon […]