Dear Centre Leaders,
Greetings from the INDEPTH Secretariat. We hope you have had a good week.
We have six items for your attention this week:
1. INDEPTH Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2014
The AGM will take place from October 29 – 31, 2014 at Africana Hotel in Kampala, Uganda.
Registration for the AGM is now open and can only be done online. All centre leaders are required to attend.
For registration click: Register or visit http://www.indepth-network.org/agmform.phpp
2. Only 11 member centres more - HDSS-related Publications – 2013
Many thanks to all the centres that have sent their 2013 publications which will be published in INDEPTH’s 2013 Annual Report.
In order to show the world the collective productivity of our member centres, we will not publish the list of papers by centres but rather put all together as Publications from INDEPTH Member Centres.
We humbly appeal to the 11 remaining member centres to send their 2013 HDSS-related publications to becky.kwei@indepth-network.org.
We thank the following (31 centres) for submitting and thank the rest of you in advance for doing so.
- Nanoro, Burkina Faso
- Sapone, Burkina Faso
- Agincourt, South Africa
- Africa Centre, South Africa
- Taabo, Cote d’Ivoire
- Bandim, Guinea Bissau
- Nahuche, Nigeria
- Vadu, India
- Dodowa, Ghana
- Wosera, PiH, Papua New Guinea
- Kilifi, Kenya
- Kombewa, Kenya
- APHRC, Kenya
- IHI (Ifakara, Rufiji), Tanzania
- Chakaria, Bangladesh
- Karonga, Malawi
- Manhica, Mozambique
- Kintampo, Ghana
- Kaya, Burkina Faso
- Kersa, Ethiopia
- West Kiang, Gambia
- HMU (Dodalab, Filabavi), Vietnam
- Nouna, Burkina Faso
- Kilite Awlaelo, Ethiopia
- Navrongo, Ghana
- IRD (Niahkar, Mlomp, Bandafassi), Senegal
- Rakai, Uganda
-ICDDR,B (Bandarban), Bangladesh
-ICDDR,B (Matlab), Bangladesh
-Kisumu, Kenya
- Farafenni, Gambia
3. MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
Are you interested in furthering your education? Read this!
The Wits School of Public Health offers a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Epidemiology in four fields of study namely: Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Population-based Field Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research Data Management. The degree focuses on the principles and practice of epidemiology, biostatistics and data management.
Please see attached for details.
4. Exclusive Signing on – INDEPTH bid to the Gates Foundation
The following HDSSs have confirmed EXCLUSIVE signing on to the INDEPTH bid to the Gates Foundation by Friday 17:30hrs GMT:
1. Matlab, Bangladesh
2. Agincourt, South Africa
3. Ballabgarh, India
4. Kersa, Ethiopia
5. Butajira, Ethiopia
6. Chililab, Vietnam
7. Farafenni, The Gambia
8. Iganga/Mayuge, Uganda
9. Rakai, Uganda
10. Taabo, Cote d’Ivoire
11. Nanoro, Burkina Faso
12. Kombewa, Kenya
13. Nahuche, Nigeria
14. Birbhum, India
15. Gilgel Gibe, Ethiopia
16. Kilite Awlaelo, Ethiopia
17. Niakhar, Senegal
18. Mlomp, Senegal
19. Bandafassi, Senegal
20. Dikgale, South Africa
21. Dodalab, Vietnam
22. Kiang West, The Gambia
23. Bandarban, Bangladesh
24. Kanchanaburi, Thailand
25. Kaya, Burkina Faso
26. Wosera, Papua New Guinea
27. PiH, Papua New Guinea
28. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
29. Chakaria, Bangladesh
30. Sapone, Burkina Faso
The Secretariat awaits responses from the following HDSSs.
1. Ifakara, Tanzania
2. Rufiji, Tanzania
3. Nairobi, Kenya
4. Kisumu, Kenya
5. Mbita, Kenya
6. Karonga, Malawi
7. Kintampo, Ghana
8. Dodowa, Ghana
9. Navrongo, Ghana
10. Purworejo, Indonesia
11. Vadu, India
12. Filabavi, Vietnam
13. Manhica, Mozambique
14. Africa Centre, South Africa
15. Kilifi, Kenya
16. Nouna, Burkina Faso
17. Dabat, Ethiopia
18. Bandim, Guinea Bissau
19. Magu, Tanzania
5.One online publication produced from secretariat review of site's published papers
From the systematic review the Secretariat did on all published papers on HIV&AIDS by its member centres, one out of the papers has been published online.
The title of the paper "The history and impact of HIV/AIDS. A decade of INDEPTH research.
The title of the paper "The history and impact of HIV/AIDS. A decade of INDEPTH research".
Please find the link below.
http://www.hivandaidsreview.com/article/S1730-1270(14)00048-4/abstract
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6. Meet our graduates from the INDEPTH-funded MSc Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mr. Charfudin Sacoor of Manhica HDSS, Mozambique, is our personality for the short profiles this week.
This series of short profiles is to introduce the more than 30 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. Scholarships for this programme have been graciously provided by Sida, Rockefeller Foundation and the Gates Foundation.
More information on the INDEPTH Scientific Development and Leadership Programme can be obtained by clicking on the following link:
Leadership Programme.
Full name: Charfudin Sacoor
Position before the programme:: Demographer at Manhica HDSS, Mozambique
Current position: : Head of Department of Demography
Student years at Wits University: 2008 - 2009
Host HDSS centre for the field attachment: Africa Centre, South Africa.
Mr. Charfudin Sacoor has been working with Manhiça Health Research Centre (Manhiça HDSS) since June 2004.
In 2008,theINDEPTH-Network sponsored him to do Master programme on Population-based Field Epidemiology at University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
“This was a valuable opportunity to my career, especially because this Master programme is rich and covers the majority of needs for those who are members of INDEPTH-Network family. One other important thing about this programme is that, it gives you a possibility to know how to do things as a result of the good combination of theory and practical classes,” he said.
“Personally I enjoyed my student life and the challenge to learn in an environment typically English as my native language is Portuguese. I’m also proud to have had the opportunity to spend six months in Africa Centre, KwaZulu-Natal during my field attachment and the privilege to work with other scientists there” he added.
Since 2010, Charfudin has led the Department of Demography at Manhiça Health Research Centre. He coordinates all the processes of data capturing, data entry, data cleaning and data analysis. He is also involved in some INDEPTH-Network working groups and some research project in Manhiça as co-investigator: These are:
(i) PREVENT Project: Programme Enhancing Vaccine Epidemiology Networks and Training,
(ii) TESFAM Project: HIV Counselling & Testing Services Using the Health Demographic Surveillance System and Pneumococcal Disease Surveillance at District Hospital, in Manhiça, Mozambique and
(iii) CLIP Project (Community Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia), leading the Demographic component of this study.
Charfudin has also beencollaborating with Faculty of Medicine at University Eduardo Mondlane and Centro Regional de Desenvolvimento Sanitário de Maputo (training Institution of the Ministry of Health of Mozambique) as a lecturer of Demography since 2010.
Thank you.
Have a restful weekend!
Becky Kwei
