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Article History

Received: 22 November 2024

Accepted: 6 April 2026

First Online: 13 April 2026

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This activity was conducted as part of a Ministry of Health-led programmatic systems strengthening initiative to improve mortality surveillance workflows in Uganda. The work involved stakeholder consultations and workflow co-design and did not include the collection of patient-level clinical data or identifiable personal health information. Under national public health guidelines, the activity was classified as programmatic systems improvement rather than human subjects research requiring formal institutional review board approval; therefore, no ethics approval ID was issued. Ethical oversight was provided by the Ministry of Health Department of Integrated Epidemiology, Surveillance and Public Health Emergencies. All participants were informed about the purpose of the discussions and the voluntary nature of participation. Verbal informed consent was obtained prior to participation, and no personal identifiers were retained in transcripts or analytic outputs.

: The Ministry of Health Department of Integrated Epidemiology, Surveillance and Public Health Emergencies.