Chair:    Assistant Secretary of Sectoral Management and Coordination Office
            Department of Health (DOH)

Co-Chair: Assistant Secretary General
                National Statistical Coordination Board

Members:

• Health Policy Development & Planning Bureau, DOH
• National Epidemiology Center, DOH
• Nutrition Surveillance Division, National Nutrition Council
• Corporate Planning Department, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
  Association of Health Maintenance Organizations of the Philippines, Inc.
• Planning and Monitoring Division, Commission on Population
• Bureau of Local Government Supervision, Department of the Interior and Local Government
• Nutritional Assessment and Monitoring Division, Food and Nutrition Research Institute
• Social Development Staff, National Economic and Development Authority
• Vital Statistics Division, National Statistics Office (NSO)
• Demographic and Social Statistics Department, NSO
• Philippine Medical Association
• College of Public Health, University of the Philippines
• Philippine NGO Council on Population, Health and Welfare, Inc.
• Committee on Health, Congress of the Philippines
• Social Statistics Office, National Statistical Coordination Board

1. Formulate measures that will improve the system of data collection and reporting of national and local health statistics;
2. Recommend improvements in the methodology of compilation of the PNHA or any of its components and formulate measures to ensure that the data requirements of the PNHA are being generated by all concerned agencies;
3. Identify and recommend statistical policies to the NSCB Executive Board for the generation of data support on health issues;
4. Identify and develop key health indicators and standard health parameters and recommend measures for the institutionalization of the generation and use of these indicators;
5. Monitor the over-all development of health statistics in the country.

1. Reviewed 34 concepts and definitions on health and nutrition statistics - for further review and for metadata to be included
2. Discussions on the DOH  registration system for persons with disabilities (PWDs) by the TWG on PWDs
3. Discussions on how to address data gaps in MDG

1. Recommendations on the harmonization of sources of health data, such as infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate, maternal mortality ratio, etc.
2. Recommendations on the proposed hunger index for Board approval
3. Approved official concepts and definitions for the health and nutrition sector by the Board
4. Inputs/recommendations on the development and implementation of a coordinated and comprehensive Philippine Health Information Network (PHIN)
5. Comments on the questionnaires of 2008 National Nutrition Survey and 2008 National Demographic and Health Survey for submission to the FNRI and NSO, respectively
6. Recommendations to address data gaps in the generation of the MDG indicators, such as the proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on sustainable basis
7. Recommendations on the implementation of programs/activities in the PSDP Chapter on Health and Nutrition Statistics

• Memorandum Order No. 01-02
  Creation Of The Inter-Agency Committee On Health Statistics
• Memorandum Order No. 02-07
  Reconstituting And Expanding The Inter-Agency Committee On Health Statistics Into The Inter-Agency Committee On Health And Nutrition Statistics