Dear Centre Leaders,
Greetings from the INDEPTH Secretariat. We hope you have had a good week.
We have the following items for your attention:
1. Manager for large clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone
 The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is seeking to appoint a Clinical Lecturer/Senior Lecturer as a Trial Manager to coordinate a Phase III efficacy trial of a prime boost vaccine against Ebola infection as part of the EBOVAC1 project. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the EBOVAC1 project that comprises a set of clinical trials to evaluate the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the prime boost Ebola vaccine manufactured by Janssen Crucell.The closing date for the application is Wednesday, April 8, 2015.
For details, please log on to: https://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=DWJ4A
2.African Leaders Endorse a Science Funding Platform for Africa
Nairobi/Addis Ababa/London/Seattle/Johannesburg, March 9, 2015: In a key development for scientific and health research in Africa, the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, endorsed the establishment of the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) - a platform created by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)and the NEPAD Agency. This pan-African platform offers an opportunity for the long-term development of research leadership, scientific excellence and innovation that impact on Africa’s developmental challenges.
Please see attached for full text.
3. The African Partnership for Chronic Disease Research (APCDR) Studentship and Fellowship Call 2015
 The APCDR is offering a number of highly prestigious scholarships to support outstanding and highly motivated applicants from African countries to pursue post-graduate education or a research fellowship in the field of chronic disease research. The aim of the Studentships and Research Fellowships is to support the future leaders of African chronic disease research. Studentships and Fellowships are available to support completion of a three year PhD programme or a 12 month fellowship. The awards will fund a full PhD stipend (which covers a maintenance stipend and university and college fees), or a full junior research post-doctoral fellowship stipend which is aligned to the host institution’s stipend scale. Studentships and Research Fellowships are to be undertaken at partnering APCDR institutions in Africa, the UK and the USA.”.
Deadline for applications is 30th of April 2015.
For any queries email: lb22@sanger.ac.uk or studentship-info@apcdr.org.
Please see attached for details.
4. Scientific conference registration opens
Registration for this year’s INDEPTH Scientific Conference (ISC 2015) is now open. The conference will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from November 11 – 14, 2015. It is on the theme “Health and Demographic Research to Inform the Post-2015 Development Agenda”.
All are encouraged to register here:
5. Ifakara hosts research to policy meeting
 The Ifakara Health Institute (HI) in Tanzania will host a meeting of stakeholders to discuss practical strategies of bridging the gap between research and policy . The forum to be held in Dar es Salaam early next month follows similar events in Navrongo, Ghana, in December 2014 and Vadu in Pune, India in February 2015.
Such meetings enhance the visibility of INDEPTH brand, its HDSS centres and their work. The in-country meetings kick-start the interaction between HDSS, researchers, media, academia, local government officials and policy makers. Stakeholders are informed about the existence of HDSS and the platforms’ immense potential to fill the data gap in developing countries and support health policy development. Also read: http://www.ihi.or.tz/announ/workshoptokick-startlinkagesbetweenhdsssiteinthepipeline
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