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Friday Newsletter from the Secretariat
28th November 2014
Dear Centre Leaders,
Greetings from the INDEPTH Secretariat. We hope you have had a good week.

We are repeating the following news items which require action from you by end of November. Please note that this is the last time these calls will be published. Centres that have responded will be contacted to commence the activities proposed.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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 andMalawi.

Please see attached for details.

5. 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 fieldsitefor 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

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