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Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action (COMSA-Mozambique)

COMSAActiveMozambiqueEstablished 2017Cohort
828,663
Cohort size
2017
Year started
Mixed
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
Cohort
Cohort type

About this cohort

Sample registration system launched January 2017 (data collection from March 2018) covering 700 randomly selected geographic clusters across all 11 provinces of Mozambique — a nationally representative population of ~828,000–870,000 persons. Community surveillance agents report continuous birth, death and cause-of-death data via mobile devices, with verbal autopsies and links to CHAMPS minimally-invasive tissue sampling for under-5 deaths. Funded by the Gates Foundation; row label SIS-COVE/COMSA assumed to refer to COMSA.

Cohort-provided summary · derived from APCC directory fields

Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

Mortality Surveillance
Cause of Death
Verbal Autopsy

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 828,663 participants in a mixed setting in Mozambique, spanning All ages (all). Detailed inclusion criteria and follow-up schedule — To be confirmed.

Timeline

Milestones in the cohort record.

2017
Cohort established
Start of data collection as recorded in the APCC directory.
Further milestones
To be confirmed Additional events pending custodian input.

Key characteristics

Core descriptive metadata.

Study design / type
Cohort
Cohort size
828,663Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
MozambiqueMixed
Year started
2017Ongoing
Coordinates
None, NoneLat, Long

Institutions & governance

Lead institution(s); partners and governance to be confirmed.

Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS)
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
Johns Hopkins University

Partner institutions & governance arrangements — To be confirmed

Nested studies & sub-cohorts

Studies built on this cohort platform.

Nested studies / sub-cohorts — To be confirmed.

FAIR readiness

Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable assessment.

F · TBCA · TBCI · TBCR · TBC
FAIR assessment pending — to be completed with the cohort custodian against the APCC metadata standard.

Investigators

Principal investigators and ORCID identifiers.

Information pending validation.

Publications & evidence

Outputs, policy briefs and research evidence.

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Publications, policy briefs and research outputs to be linked from Africahied. To be confirmed.

Data access & governance

How the data can be accessed and governed.

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Access procedure
Managed access via the cohort custodian
Request
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Ethics & governance
To be confirmed

Collaboration opportunities

Partnerships and capacity strengthening.

Collaboration opportunities, capacity-strengthening and partnership details. To be confirmed.

Contact

How to reach the cohort team or request access.

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Lead institution
Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS)
Contact
To be confirmed
Metadata source: APCC cohort directoryLast reviewed: 19 June 2026Some fields are placeholders pending custodian confirmation — verify independently.