CRVS strengthening in the Philippines

Interview videos with CRVS stakeholders include:

• Dr Ferchito L Avelino, Officer in Charge, Department of Health, Epidemiology Bureau (Filipino Ministry of Health: Ways to improve death certification)
   

• Edith Ramos Orcilla, Assistant National Statistician and Aurora T Reolalas, Chief Statistical Specialist, Philippine Statistical Authority (Timelier death data in the Philippines)

• Dr Sherjan Kalim. Anatomic and Clinical Pathologist, Cotabato Regional Medical Centre; Dr Anthony Russeu Villanova, Clinical Officer, Department of Adult Nephrology National Kidney and Transplant Institute; Dr Pepito E. de la Pena, Clinical Officer, Internal Medicine National Kidney and Transplant Institute (Up-skilling Filipino physicians in underlying cause of death diagnoses)

• Dr Clemencia Dilag Bondol, Municipal Health Officer, President of the Association of Municipal Health Officer of the Philippines (Application of SmartVA in the Philippines)

• Majorie Villaver, Supervising Statistical Specialist at the Philippine Statistical Authority, University of Melbourne fellow (Estimating completeness of death registration and assessing quality of cause of death data at the national and subnational level)

• Lene Mikkelsen, Senior Technical Advisor to the Philippines from the University of Melbourne (The Philippines: A story of CRVS change)

• Associate Professor Rohina Joshi, verbal autopsy expert from the University of Melbourne (SmartVA rollout in the Philippines)