The International Center for Equity in Health (ICEH), situated at the Federal University of Pelotas, has been actively engaged in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a designated WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Equity Monitoring since 2017. Under the leadership of Dr. Aluisio Barros, Dr. Cesar Victora and Dr. Fernando Wehrmeister, this partnership has been instrumental in advancing global efforts to monitor health equity. The ICEH's designation, denoted as collaborating center BRA 84, was initially conferred for the period spanning 2017 to 2021. This collaboration was successfully renewed in 2021, reaffirming ICEH's commitment to assist the WHO in addressing health disparities and promoting equitable health outcomes on a global scale. As a collaborating center, our activities are related to providing technical assistance on health inequality monitoring for the WHO Member States.
The core activity of the collaboration is to maintain an updated WHO global database of disaggregated data of reproductive, maternal and child health. Data from DHS and MICS surveys are re-analyzed to provide a large number of indicadors disaggregated by ten dimensions of inequality. All results are double checked against published sources and go through rigorous quality control procedures both at the ICEH and WHO. These datasets publicly available through the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT) and the Health Inequality Data Repository. Additional activities include data analysis, products, development, and training and education to strengthen countries' capacity on health equity monitoring. Dissemination of several outputs from this collaboration takes the form of scientific manuscripts and technical reports. In the various pages of this website, an array of our tools, products and outputs are presented, explained and made available where applicable.
More on the WHO Collaborating Centres can be found here.