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:
Enhancing Communication, Building Up Influencing Skills
Calls for proposals : USAID Funding Opportunity – Saving Lives At Birth
Pre-registration open – ISC2018 (INDEPTH@20), 26-28 November 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa
Radically cleaner environment may be essential to cut childhood stunting
Gilgel Gibe HDSS in Ethiopia gets new centre leader
1) Enhancing Communication, Building Up Influencing Skills
On 25th and 26th January 2018, SEACO Data Collectors attended a training on communication skills, held at the SEACO Office. Once again SEACO invited Ms. Prisca Loke Lai Fong, a Certified Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner to conduct the training. Ms. Prisca focuses the training on communication between the Data Collectors and respondents. Read more
2) Calls for proposals
USAID Funding Opportunity – Saving Lives At Birth
Saving Lives at Birth invites innovators from around the world to apply. Specifically, USAID is looking to find maternal and new-born health solutions that have already demonstrated proof-of-concept and are on the path to scale. Applications close on 28 February.
More information https://savinglivesatbirth.net/apply Read more
3) 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.
4) Radically cleaner environment may be essential to cut childhood stunting
Improved drinking water, sanitation and handwashing (WASH) with nutrition intervention successfully cut childhood diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh, found a new study by icddr,b with US collaborators. Researchers think that partial improvements in WASH are insufficient to optimally affect childhood stunting - a condition when children become too short for their age. Read more
5) Gilgel Gibe HDSS in Ethiopia gets new leader
Gilgel Gibe HDSS in Ethiopia have gotten a new leader in the person of Mr Fasil Tessema. Mr. Tessema takes over from Dr Muluemebet Abera Wordofa. Mr Tessema has MSc. in Community Health. Work experience: Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Jimma University. Current position: Head, Gilgel Gibe Field Research, Jimma University. Research experience: Author and co-author of more than 54 peer reviewed articles in national and international journals. Read more
