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Dear Centre Leaders,
We hope you have had a good week.
We have the following items for your attention:
  • OPTIMUNISE stakeholders meeting in Accra
  • Science communication training – Call for applications
  • Multimedia informed consent tool invented for low literacy populations
1. OPTIMUNISE stakeholders meeting in Accra
The INDEPTH Network will from 26 – 28 August 2016 organise a dissemination conference for stakeholders of an INDEPTH project aimed at Optimising the Child Vaccines Impact and Effectiveness in Low and Middle Income countries (OPTIMUNISE) to be held in Accra, Ghana.

The event will feature high-level speakers and experts presenting and discussing in panels the results of the work on child health intervention programmes of vaccines and micronutrients, funded by the EU. 

This work was done based on the information routinely registered by the health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) on childhood vaccinations, micronutrient supplementation, and de-worming campaigns in Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso and Ghana. The event will also address what research and innovation can do to make a difference in this field under the Sustainable Development Goals.
News from our member centres
1. Science communication training – Call for applications
The Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS) in collaboration with the SwissTPH and with the financial support of KFPE and Afrique One-Aspire on  is organising a training programme on Communicating science to specific target-audiences from 26 – 30 September 2016 at the Grand Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire.

Application deadline: 05 September 2016.
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The Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS) is an INDEPTH member centre in Cote d’Ivoire. 
2.  Multimedia informed consent tool invented for low literacy populations
Dr Muhammed Afolabi
In a multiple award winning research, Dr Muhammed Afolabi of the MRC Unit The Gambia developed a multimedia consent tool for achieving informed consent in low to non –literate settings, where study participants first language is frequently non-written.

The MRC Unit (Farafenni HDSS) is an INDEPTH member centre in The Gambia. Read more
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