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Dear Centre Leaders,
In today's newsletter:
  • INDEPTH colleagues take part in Harvard climate change events
  • Call for Abstracts: The Canadian Conference on Global Health is pleased to now accept abstracts
  • Call for proposals: Health information systems or adolescent sexual and reproductive health in West Africa
  • Patients' perception vital for medication adherence for type-2 diabetes
  • A prospective cohort study to assess the micro-epidemiology of P.falciparum clinical malaria
1. INDEPTH colleagues take part in Harvard climate change events
Some colleagues from INDEPTH will be participating in a week of climate change-related events referred to as the “Harvard University Climate Week celebrations” organised by the University of Harvard in the US. As part of the events and programmes marking this undertaking to be held between April 25 and 28 is a workshop series on the health impact of climate change titled: “Climate change and health: opportunities for collaboration between disciplines.”
 
Organised by the Harvard Global Health Institute, this workshop series will provide the opportunity for researchers and scholars to discuss how: to link longitudinal (retrospective) health datasets (HDSS) with time-series data from different sectors (meteorology, agriculture, entomology, economics), and; to link empirical results, from which climate health impact functions can be distilled to existing climate models in order to be able to project health impacts to various policy relevant time horizons, i.e. 2050. Read more
 
2. Call for Abstracts: The Canadian Conference on Global Health is pleased to now accept abstracts 
Abstracts can be for oral and poster presentations, for workshops and symposia, and for videos. Submissions can address any global health topic, must directly relate to the conference theme and at least one of the sub-themes below. The conference theme is leaving no one behind? Reflection for action in a changing world.The sub-themes are:
  • Tackling poverty and social exclusion (including Universal health coverage (UHC); Universal Education Coverage (UEC) and Universal Basic Income Coverage (UBIC))
  • Health of marginalized populations during and following periods of crises
  • Sustainable and equitable environmental action
  • Research, Innovation and Measurement for equitable action
  • Other (if your submission doesn’t address one of the above sub-themes, please provide a brief justification for your topic’s relevance to the overall conference theme)
Deadline: May 31, 2017 by 17:00 ET, more details here
3. Call for proposals: Health information systems or adolescent sexual and reproductive health in West Africa
To be eligible, the following set of criteria will be applied to the organisation or the consortium (with a lead organization identified):
 
Organisation must be a non-partisan, not-for profit organisation legally founded and registered as an independent entity in the country of operation; Organisation must not be a United Nations agency as either the lead organisation or as a direct recipient of funds from IDRC; International organisations can apply if they can clearly demonstrate local ownership and leadership; If local capacity is weak or missing, international organisations may be considered to take the lead. In such cases, the proposal must include key stakeholders from the country who will be involved in the design and implementation of the work. The proposal must demonstrate a significant contribution to local capacity strengthening.
 
Deadline: May 23, 2017 by 11:45 p.m. (EDT), more details here
News from Centres
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    Patients' perception vital for medication adherence for type-2 diabetes
Patients with diabetes have shown poor understanding of diabetes medications.
Tackling risks from non-communicable diseases (NCD), particularly diabetes, in a resource-poor setting like Bangladesh is a daunting challenge. The International Diabetic Federation (IDF) estimates that by 2030, Bangladesh would emerge as one of the countries with largest number of people with type 2 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are increasing globally and often remain undiagnosed long after onset in low-income settings. Bangladesh has been shown to perform poorly in efforts to reduce NCDs, according to a newly developed NCD scorecard. This rise is due to an increase in sedentary lifestyles, rapid urbanization and (most importantly)non–adherence to medication. Read more
 
2. Manihca HDSS:
    A prospective cohort study to assess the micro-epidemiology of P.falciparum clinical malaria

Dr. Eusebio Macete, Manhica Centre Leader.

After the decrease in clinical malaria incidence observed in Mozambique until 2009, a steady resurgence of cases per year has been reported nationally, reaching alarming levels in 2014. However, little is known about the clinical profile of the cases presented, or the possible epidemiological factors contributing to the resurgence of cases.
 
An analysis of surveillance data collected between July 2003 and June 2013 in the high malaria-transmission area of Ilha Josina Machel (Southern Mozambique) through a paediatric outpatient morbidity surveillance system was conducted to calculate hospital-based clinical malaria rates, slide-positivity rates, and minimum community-based incidence rates (MCBIRs) and incidence rate ratios per malaria season in children younger than 15 years of age.  Read more on this study titled “A prospective cohort study to assess the micro-epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum clinical malaria in Ilha Josina Machel (Manhiça, Mozambique)”:  Read more
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