The openVA Team is a group of researchers, data scientists, and software developers who create new methods and software to improve the verbal autopsy method for ascertaining cause of death.

The openVA Team focuses on improving computer-based approaches to cause ascertainment using verbal autopsy data. This includes:

  • developing new statistical/computational algorithms for cause classification,
  • improving the symptom-cause information available for algorithmic cause assignment,
  • supporting work on global standards for the VA instrument and symptom-cause information,
  • developing machine learning/artificial intelligence approaches to cause classification,
  • building training data resources for machine learning/artificial intelligence cause classification, and
  • supporting work to bring pathology-based information into automated cause classification procedures using information from minimally-invasive tissue sampling.
For general information, send email to info@openva.net