Dear Centre Leaders,
Greetings from the INDEPTH Secretariat. We hope you have had a good week.

We have f fixe items for your attention this week:

1. INDEPTH Skills Experience Sharing workshop for Administrators
This workshop will take place from November 26 -28, 2014 in Kenya.
The workshop is to among others bring together Administrators to share experiences and discuss issues related to the provision of administrative activities to facilitate the work of HDSS sites in low- and middle- income countries.
Deadline for the nomination of participants to the Secretariat is November 11, 2014.
Please see attached for details.

2. 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.

3. National Health Research Priorities in Guinea-Bissau
Please do find attached the research agenda of Guinea Bissau for your information..

4. Humboldt young climate & health research grants
(The Humboldt Foundation Call for applications for International Climate Protection Fellowships)!

The Humboldt Foundation is inviting applications for International Climate Protection Fellowships to promote prospective leaders from transition and developing countries. Applications may be submitted from now until 15 March 2015.

This is a highly competitive fellowship with up to 20 young climate experts from non-European transition or developing countries (who already have initial professional and leadership experience in this field) expected to be funded in the next round.

Together with a host, they will work in Germany for a year on a research-based project of their own choice in the field of climate protection. The fellowships, which are funded under the International Climate Protection Initiative by the Federal Environment Ministry, will begin on 1 March 2016. For details check the link below:
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/3374908.html

We are also pleased to announce to any interested person from INDEPTH member centres that Professor Rainer Sauerborn would be prepared to be the German host for this fellowship if we have any suitable person from INDEPTH applying.

Please let us know if you are applying.

Martin Bangha, PhD
Capacity Strengthening & Training Manager
INDEPTH Network

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

• 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

• 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).

Thank you.

Have a restful weekend!

Becky Kwei