Dear Centre Leaders,
Greetings from the INDEPTH Secretariat. We hope you have had a good week.
We have three items for your attention this week:
1. Update from the Gates Foundation - SEED Concept Memo Responses
The Executive Director received on Wednesday the below update from the Gates Foundation which we would like to share with you.
From: SEED RFP <SEEDRFP@gatesfoundation.org>
Subject: Gates Foundation SEED Concept Memo Responses
Date: September 10, 2014 10:32:20 PM GMT
To: SEED RFP <SEEDRFP@gatesfoundation.org>Dear All,
Thank you for your hard work in preparing a response to the call for concepts in the first phase of our process to identify a long term implementing partner for our Sentinel Epidemiology and Etiology Data (SEED) initiative which is part of a foundation infectious diseases surveillance strategy. In this phase, we received 23 responses from organizations around the world.
We received many exceptional responses and are still in the process of reviewing them. We hope to complete this process shortly and will follow up with you as soon as we can. Although we will be selecting only two final candidates for full proposals for the lead partner, we are anticipating that many of you will play a role in some capacity.
Thank you again for your enthusiasm for this initiative and for the work you put into responding.
Sincerely,
-The SEED RFP Team
2. Policy Engagement and Research Communications Specialist
INDEPTH Network is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Policy Engagement and Research Communications Specialist to head the Policy Engagement and Communications Section of the Secretariat in Accra.
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(Policy Engagement and Research Communications Specialist )
3. INDEPTH Small Grants Programme
Don’t miss this opportunity to apply for small grants from INDEPTH.
The overall goal of this INDEPTH Small Grants programme is to support research and research capacity strengthening among INDEPTH member centres in low- and middle-income countries.
We fund collaborative projects among three or more INDEPTH member centres.
Please see attached for details.
Note: We sincerely apologise for our inability to bring to you today, the short profile of HDSS scientists who have been funded by INDEPTH to pursue the MSc in Population-based Field Epidemiology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and Masters in Public Health at the Brac University in Bangladesh.
More information on the INDEPTH Scientific Development and Leadership Programme can be obtained by clicking on the following link: Leadership Programme.
Thank you.
Have a restful weekend!
Becky Kwei
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