1. INDEPTH Board member appointed Director of Research at APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya, a member of the INDEPTH Network 
Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi an INDEPTH Board member has been appointed as new Director of Research at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). She has been described as a leader who is passionate about Africa’s place in the discourses that affect its development, and who is deeply committed to the Center’s mission, values and ideals. Read more

2. iSHARE 2 Workshop underway in Dubai 
The INDEPTH Data Management Programme’s (IDMP) iSHARE2 Training Workshop is underway in Dubai, UAE from November 18 to 25, 2014.

The workshop is to train iSHARE2 member centres to use available tools to produce a dataset of good quality. These tools are all set up on the Centre-in-a-Box (CIB) which will be given to the particiants. The other key objective is to produce the Micro Dataset and also produce Indicators for INDEPTHStats.

Seven participants from Dodowa HDSS, Ghana, Iganga/Mayuge HDSS, Uganda, Kersa HDSS, Ethiopia, Kombewa HDSS, Kenya, Mlomp HDSS, Senegal, Niakhar HDSS, Senegal, Rakai HDSS, Uganda from six INDEPTH member centres are taking part in the workshop and they will be joined by their Centre Leaders from 23rd to 25th November, 2014. This is the fourth training workshop under the iSHARE2 Project.

The OpenHDS technical team from Swiss TPH has also joined the meeting to forge the links between the two projects - iSHARE2 & OpenHDS all under the INDEPTH Data Management Programme (IDMP).

3. 14th Annual General Meeting
The 14th AGM will take place from February 4 – 6, 2015, at Africana Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. Registration for the AGM is now open and can only be done online at 'http://www.indepth-network.org/agmform.php'. All centre leaders are required to register and attend. It is important to note that attendance is a requirement for continued membership of the Network. For self-sponsored participants, the accommodation cost per night is $100.

4. 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine & International Health
This will take place from September 6 – 10, 2015, in Basel, Switzerland. It is on the theme: Driving the Best Science to Meet Global Health Challenges. Please see attached for details.

5. INDEPTH Education Working Group
INDEPTH has decided to re-launch the INDEPTH Education Working Group with Dr Mamusu Kamanda, our Postdoc, anchoring the activities from Accra.
Please contact mamusu.kamanda@indepth-network.org .
Please see attached for details.

6. INDEPTH Still-birth and neonatal mortality analysis
The Maternal and Newborn Health Working Group is opening up a multi-centre paper on stillbirths and neonatal deaths to all INDEPTH member centres that have data from 2008 to 2012 (inclusive).

Please look at the tables and send your data to Osman (osman.sankoh@indepth-network.org). Peter Waiswa, leader of the Working Group, will facilitate.
Please see attached for details.

2. INDEPTH Sexual and Reproductive Health Working group
The Evidence Project, a USAID-funded cooperative agreement awarded to the Population Council and its partners including INDEPTH, seeks to expand access to high-quality family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) programming worldwide. The project uses an implementation science (IS) approach to generate, synthesize and use evidence to improve programming and to reduce barriers to using FP. INDEPTH will play an important role in the strategic generation and utilization of longitudinal evidence related to family planning and reproductive health. See more in the attached document .

Please write to Samuelina: samuelina.arthur@indepth-network.org.

7. GSK launches first call for proposals for research in to non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa.
GSK has launched the first call for proposals for its Africa NCD Open Lab, to support much-needed scientific research into non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa. Up to £4m will be available in this first funding round, to support successful proposals from researchers in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, The Gambia, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Malawi.

Please see attached for details.

8. Maps of HDSS field sites
We are updating maps of HDSS field sites. Please review the link below. Send us any new maps of your field site for inclusion. If your site has expanded recently, please let us have the new map.
http://www.indepth-network.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=753&Itemid=635