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:
Pre-registration open – ISC2018 (INDEPTH@20), 26-28 November 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa
Chakaria HDSS Scientific Report: Focussing on Sustainable Development Goals
Reports from Papua New Guinea
Navrongo HDSS: PreMAND holds dissemination
NAVRONGO HDSS joins a leading LIPID working group of the H3AFRICA awi-gen project
1) 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.
2) Chakaria HDSS Scientific Report: Focussing on Sustainable Development Goals
Dr. SM Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi , Chakaria HDSS leader
Chakaria is one of the 500 upazilas (sub-districts) in Bangladesh. It is located between latitudes 21o34’ and 21o55’ North and longitudes 91o54’ and 92o13’ East in the southeastern coast of the Bay of Bengal. Administratively, it is under Cox’s Bazar district with an estimated population of 523,317 in 2016. The highway from Chittagong to Cox’s Bazar passes through Chakaria. The east side of Chakaria is hilly, while on the west side towards the Bay of Bengal is lowland. A map showing the location of Chakaria is presented in Figure 1. Please read more about their report titles " Focussing on the Sustainable Development Goals" . Read more
3) Reports from Papua New Guinea
Dr. Bang Pham Nguyen, PiH HDSS leader.
Please see below the links to a series of technical reports that PNG IMR has produced in the last few years, and available on IMR website:
Partnership in Health Programme Report: March 2017 Edition on Men's Health Associated Factors. 2017. Technical Report. PNG Institute of Medical Research: Goroka. Available hrere ---> Click to view
Partnership in Health Programme Report: September 2016 Edition on Children's Health. 2016. Technical Report. PNG Institute of Medical Research: Goroka. Available hrere ---> Click to view
Partnership in Health Programme Report: March 2016 Edition on Women's Health. 2016. Technical Report. PNG Institute of Medical Research: Goroka. Available hrere ---> Click to view
Partnership in Health Programme Report: September 2015 Edition on Households' Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics. 2015. Technical Report. PNG Institute of Medical Research: Goroka. Available hrere ---> Click to view
Partnership in Health Programme Report: March 2015 Edition on Measuring Key Population Health Indicators of PNG. 2015. Technical Report. PNG Institute of Medical Research: Goroka. Available here ----> Click to view
Partnership in Health Programme Report: September 2014 Edition on Migration and Population Change. 2014. Technical Report. PNG Institute of Medical Research: Goroka. Available here ----> Click to view
Partnership in Health Programme Report: March 2014 Edition on Morbidity and Mortality Surveillance. 2014. Technical Report. PNG Institute of Medical Research: Goroka. Available here ----> Click to view
4) Navrongo HDSS: PreMAND holds dissemination
The Preventing Maternal and Neonatal Deaths (PreMAND) project has held a close out dissemination meeting on its activities at the Navrongo Health Research Centre on the 8th March 2018.
The one-day meeting was attended by representatives from the USAID, Ghana Office, representatives from the implementing districts of the project, namely; the Kassena-Nankana Municipal and the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region, the East Mamprusi district in the Northern Region and the Sisala East District in the Upper West Region. Also in attendance were representatives from the Tumu district hospital, the War Memorial hospital in Navrongo and the Baptist Medical Centre in the East Mamprusi district. Read more
5) NAVRONGO HDSS joins a leading LIPID working group of the H3AFRICA awi-gen project
Members of the AWI-Gen lipid working group at the mini workshop in the Department of Pathology and Medical Sciences, University of Limpopo, Turfloop campus, Polokwane, SA (From left: Mr Ramould Bua, Mr Godfred Agongo, Dr Shukri Mohammed, Prof Marianne Alberts, Dr Felista Mashinya, and Dr. Engelbert Nonterah).
Despite myriad targets and 17 inter-related goals, the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda has, at its core, a single prevailing ambition: to invest wisely in ensuring that no one is left behind in the race to achieve growth. And central to this ambition is keeping people of all backgrounds, ages and creeds, healthy, alive and able to contribute productively to their homes, their communities and their societies as a whole. Read more
