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The PLoS Medicine Debate Should Data from Demographic Surveillance Systems Be Made More Widely Available to Researchers? . Daniel Chandramohan, Kenji Shibuya, Philip Setel, Sandy Cairncross, Alan D. Lopez, Christopher J. L. Murray, Basia Zaba, Robert W. Snow, Fred Binka B ackground to the debate: Demographic surveillance— the process of monitoring births, deaths, causes of recognising the growing demand for robust estimates of vital events and determinants of health, the primary objective of DSS evolved to include: (1) the production of timely and reliable population-based health information to support evidence-based health policies, and (2) the monitoring and evaluation of health interventions in settings where the routine health information and vital registration systems are weak. At present there are 38 DSS sites (26 in Africa, ten in Asia, one in Oceania, and one in Central America) in 19 countries coordinated by the International Network for the continuous Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) [1]. There are other DSS or major sample systems that use similar methods to DSS that are not members of INDEPTH (e.g., India’s Sample Registration System [2] and China’s Disease Surveillance Points system [3]), and a few others have been closed down due to lack of funds (e.g., the Tanzania Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project [4]). deaths, and migration in a population over time—is one of the cornerstones of public health research, particularly in investigating and tackling health disparities. An international network of demographic surveillance systems (DSS) now operates, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Thirty-eight DSS sites are coordinated by the International Network for the Continuous Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH). In this debate, Daniel Chandramohan and colleagues argue that DSS data in the INDEPTH database should be made available to all researchers worldwide, not just to those within the IND