Recent News
April 10th, 2024: New release of the Python openVA GUI available on the GitHub repository
under releases.
(note the additional instructions for macOS users on the main page)
April 3rd, 2024: Tyler McCormick and colleagues have a new paper on arxiv: “From Narratives to Numbers: Valid Inference Using Language Model Predictions From Verbal Autopsy Narratives.”
The openVA team develops and maintains various tools, algorithms, and software related to Verbal Autopsy. Development is ongoing, and things are changing rapidly. This site provides information useful for installing and running openVA as well as recent publications and updates on what the team has done. All of our software itself is contained in ‘packages’ written for the free, open-source statistical programming environment R and Python. The packages are available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) and the Python Package Index (PyPi).
OpenVA is, in part, an output of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative.