Category: International Statistics Program

Ask the Expert: LCDR Erin Nichols, Verbal Autopsy

LCDR Erin Nichols

[Editor’s Note: NCHS’s International Statistics Program collaborates with domestic and international partners in many public health projects around the world. We spoke with epidemiologist LCDR Erin Nichols about one of the program’s more ambitious projects: verbal autopsy.]   Q. How did the verbal autopsy project come about, and who you will be working with? A. Read More >

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International Statistics Program Takes a Global View of Health

Dr. Sam Notzon

At the National Center for Health Statistics’s offices in Hyattsville, Md., one of the busiest and most collaborative programs has a distinctly global mission. The International Statistics Program (ISP), under director Dr. Sam Notzon, gives NCHS a presence beyond our national borders, actively supporting NCHS programs and working with international organizations to improve the collection Read More >

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