Dear Centre Leaders,
Greetings from the INDEPTH Training and Resource Centre. We hope you had a fruitful week. We have the following items for your kind attention:
Three Board members visit INDEPTH
2018 iSHARE2 Refresher Workshop in Dubai
Staff from Data4SDGs pay a courtesy call on INDEPTH ED
Pre-registration open – ISC2018 (INDEPTH@20), 26-28 November 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa
Monitoring populations helps to put the right health services in place
1) Three Board members visit INDEPTH
(L-R): Prof Osman Sankoh (Executive Director), Mr Francis Ameni (ICT/Data Manager), Mrs Nellie Taylor (Finance Expert on the INDEPTH Board, The Gambia), Prof. Oche Oche (INDEPTH Board, Nahuche HDSS, Nigeria), Dr Pali Lehohla (INDEPTH Board member, South Africa), Mr Sixtus Apaliyah (Finance Manager) and Dr. Mamusu Kamanda (Ag. Science Programme Manager).
Three INDEPTH Board members paid a visit to the INDEPTH Resource and Training Centre to look a the status of the projects and other activities INDEPTH is currently undertaking. They had a three day meeting with the Transition team of INDEPTH delving into all the projects and the finances and offering suggestions where necessary. They also discussed preparation towards the ISC 2018 which will come off from 26 to 28 November 2018 at Pretoria , South Africa.
2) 2018 iSHARE2 Refresher Workshop in Dubai
The INDEPTH Resource & Training Centre is preparing for the 2018 iSHARE2 Refresher workshop in Dubai from May 10th to 25th. This workshop will be fully funded by INDEPTH through our Wellcome Trust grant. As we normally do, please fill the form below to nominate your Data Manager for the workshop.
Please click on the link below to nominate your Data manager
Please nominate your Data Manager by clicking on this link and entering the required details Click to Nominate
Deadline for nominations isFebruary 28since this is a huge undertaking and we will have to purchase tickets and arrange travel for all your data managers.
3) Staff from Data4SDGs pay a courtesy call on INDEPTH ED
(L-R): Victor Ohuruogu (Programme Manager, Data4SDGs)
Dr Mamusu Kamanada – Ag Science Programme Manager, Prof Sankoh - Executive Director, Charu Vijayakumar (M&E Manager, Data4SDGs)
INDEPTH Network was honoured on Wednesday, 14 February with a visit by colleagues from at Data4SDGs (Nigeria/USA). The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (www.data4sdgs.org). GPSDD is designed to bring together governments, private sector, civil society, international organisations and funders to advance the quality, collection and use of data to advance the SDGs and national development priorities..
4) Pre-registration open – ISC2018 (INDEPTH@20), 26-28 November 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa
St. George Hotel, South Africa.
Centre Leaders and teams, working groups and INDEPTH projects may now pre-register for INDEPTH’s 20th anniversary celebrations in Pretoria, South Africa. We have chosen a date that doesn’t conflict with the major other international conferences. So please block the dates, pre-register and let us know your specific needs for sessions and workshops.
Please preregister by visiting the ISC2018 (INDEPTH@20) webpage which is now available.
5) Monitoring populations helps to put the right health services in place
Fourteen years ago South African researchers rising rates of high blood pressure in the population that led to people dying earlier than expected. But it wasn’t in the bustling urban metropolis of Johannesburg in South Africa’s economic hub where this cardio-metabolic disease epidemic was first found. The trends – that people were increasingly dying from stroke – were picked up in one of the country’s most rural sub-districts. Read more
