Safeguarding Global Health Data: The Urgent Need to Sustain Population Surveys Posted on 29/04/2025 (29/04/2025) by Isabel Radoli PUBLICATIONS RESOURCES // PUBLICATIONS Safeguarding Global Health Data: The Urgent Need to Sustain Population Surveys Data Science Program and Health and Wellbeing April 2025 Journal Articles The disruptions brought by the halt in USAID funding, specifically the termination of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, will reverberate across local, regional, national, and global levels and severely impact understanding of the levels and changes in population health outcomes and behaviors. In this article, APHRC researchers, in collaboration with others, highlight three key impacts on ongoing data collection and data processing activities; future data collection, and the consequent lack of population-level health indicators; access to existing data, and support for its use. Read more: Download CONTRIBUTORS