The core of the project is a health and demographic surveillance system which registers more than 100,000 people in six suburbs of the capital Bissau.

Admissions to the country's sole pediatric ward in the capital are recorded.

The project's fields of research include:[citation needed] One of the most important findings was that a new measles vaccine used in low-income countries was associated with a two-fold increase in mortality among girls.

[1] Had it not been withdrawn, it could have cost at least ½ million additional female deaths per year in Africa alone.

[citation needed] Bandim Health Project is placed in Guinea-Bissau and also has a small department at Statens Serum Institut in Denmark.