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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. INDEPTH Resident Research Fellows (IRRF) Competition 2014 - 2015
As part of efforts to train and strengthen the research capacities of the next generation of young scientists from its member centres, the INDEPTH Network is introducing a new concept tentatively known as the INDEPTH Resident Research Fellows (IRRF) Competition for Young Scientists.

The main idea is to host at least one carefully selected INDEPTH young scientist every year at the INDEPTH Secretariat for an intensive research period of one month where they can devote time to work on and complete a multi-centre paper for which s/he is first author.

Please see attached for details.

2. Training opportunities
Please find below some external training opportunities.

• MPH at James P Grant School of Public Health

MPH Applications for 2015 The James P. Grant School of Public Health has started enrolling for its 11th batch. The programme combines classroom and field based learning through a case-study and problem-solving based curriculum in partnership with BRAC, ICDDR, B, government and other NGO partnerships.

Deadline: 20 October 2014
For details check the link below for: ONLINE APPLICATION PROCEDURES
http://sph.bracu.ac.bd/index.php/mph/admission/forms

• Wellcome Trust Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Applications from candidates carrying out research in the areas of public health and tropical medicine will be considered by the Public Health and Tropical Medicine Interview Committee (PHATIC). All other applications will be considered by the Clinical Interview Committee (CIC).

Candidates will be notified two weeks before the interview date as to whether they have been shortlisted. Interviews will be conducted at the Wellcome Trust's offices in London.

Next full application deadline: 1 December 2014 (5pm)

Shortlisted candidate interviews: 18-20 February 2015 (PHATIC) and 26-27 February 2015 (CIC)

Details of future deadlines:

• Round 3 full application deadline: 10 April 2015 (5pm)
• Shortlisted candidate interviews: 17-19 June 2015 (PHATIC) and 24-26 June 2015 (CIC)

For details click on the link : Details

• Training Workshop on M&E of Population Health & Nutrition Programs

Regional Training Workshop on Monitoring and evaluation of population, health and nutrition programs, Bangkok, Thailand.

Deadline for applications: 24 October 2014
Workshop information and application forms are accessible at: www.ipsr.mahidol.ac.th

• Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Centre for Research in Demography and Societies of the Catholic University of Louvain – Belgium (www.uclouvain.be/demo) informs of the launch of the "MOVE-IN Louvain" call for postdoc fellowships by the Université catholique de Louvain (www.uclouvain.be). These fellowships – for a period of 12 to 24 months – are addressed to researchers who have not stayed or worked in Belgium for more than 12 months over the last 3 years. Priority is given to the following areas of research: Internal and international migrations, Fertility and family, Health, mortality, ageing, Population and environment, and Cross-cutting themes.

Deadline for applications: 07 November 2014
Further information on this call and application forms are available at: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-477969.html (English version).

3. . INDEPTH Capacity Strengthening Manager Visits RDM students

The Capacity Strengthening Manager of the INDEPTH Network, Dr MartinBangha, visited Research Database Management students (2014/15 batch) at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa recently.

Picture shows Dr Bangha (extreme left), with (from the left to the right) Adama Baguiya of Kaya HDSS, (Burkina Faso), Mieks Twumasi of Kintampo HDSS (Ghana) and Mbaya Nelson Nairobi HDSS (Kenya).

 

Thank you.

Have a restful weekend!

Becky Kwei