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The INDEPTH Executive Director’s August Message to Centre Leaders

A.      The INDEPTH Executive Director’s August Message to Centre Leaders

Here we repost the INDEPTH Executive Director’s message on INDEPTH’s efforts in 2017 and beyond to raise funding for Network activities.

 “As we already presented in Kampala in November last year, and as I indicated recently in a letter to you regarding INDEPTH’s sustainability – inviting you to contribute to the efforts of the Resource Centre in Accra, raising CORE SUPPORT for Network activities is becoming increasingly challenging. However, we remain committed and with a dynamic Board on which six of your centres serve, I do hope that funders will continue to see the value of our work as a Network.  I am grateful to member centres, working groups and partners who still make it possible for me to report the following efforts that keep the Network vibrant.”

 

1.    Ongoing INDEPTH projects

  1. INESS – started in 2009, involving 7 HDSSs, funded by Gates Foundation; No-cost extension ends in November 2017; $1,182,415.
  2. iSHARE2 – core support – Wellcome Trust - July 2017 – June 2018 $350,000
  3. ENAP – funded by Children Investment Fund Foundation through LSHTM for £1,038,305 between 2016 and 2018; involves 5 HDSSs
  4. iHOPE – started in 2015 with 3 HDSSs, funded by the Gates Foundation for $2,250,080 for 3 years (ends 2018)
  5. ABACUS – involves 7 HDSSs, funded by the Wellcome Trust for €799,828 between 2016 and 2018
  6. Hewlett Foundation – core, $350,000 (June 2017-July 2018)
  7. Quality of Malaria Care and Surveillance in Ghanaian Communities – funded in April 2016 for 3 years (2017-2019) by Comic Relief & GSK for £814,035; involves 3 HDSSs
  8. SAGE Wave 2 – funded by NIA through WHO Geneva for $274,900 over 18 months (2017-2018); involves 4 HDSS sites
  9. ANDLA – 2 year project (2017-2018) funded by the Medical Research Council Global Challenges Research Fund, involving 6 HDSSs - £675,989
  10. CHAMPS Network – participating as a consultant in the Gates Foundation funded project to establish and train new sites. We expect to raise $50,000/year from 2017.

2.    New applications 2016-2017 under review

  1. SIDA – Core; submitted in March 2017 for 10M SEK (~$1.2M)/year for 5 years (80% confidence)
  2. EDCTP – submitted in March 2017 for €2,999,970.46 over 5 years, involves 6 HDSSs
  3. AWI-Gen Phase 2a – submitted to NIH for $5,098,883 over 5 years, involves 5 HDSS sites (80% confidence – final stages)
  4. MiData– submitted to Grand Challenges Africa for $100,000 over 1 year (1 HDSS pilot)
  5. AWI-Gen Phase 2b – submitted to AESA for $3,125,000; involves 5 HDSS sites. This proposal has received positive reviewer comments and has been invited to full proposal stage. 
  6. INDEPTH/WHO Abortion Study – Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Nairobi (Kenya), Ballabgarh (India), Purworejo (Indonesia), PIH (PNG), Kisumu (Kenya),  Kaya (Burkina Faso) and Kilite (Ethiopia), amount for INDEPTH ($99,000/year), partners (University of Geneva) and funder WHO (Site selection held in Geneva 19-20 July. Budget for sites to be determined. (80% confidence)

3.    Future Projects

  1. Gates Foundation - MNCH network wide project to be submitted to the Gates Foundation – BCG Consultant paid for by the Foundation.
  2. Wellcome Trust – Longitudinal Population Studies (started discussion with Wellcome Trust)
  3. NORAD – application being written
  4. Wellcome Trust / VW Foundation – ABACUS 2, intervention RDT (discussion started with PIs)
  5. USAID: TDR-INDEPTH – Implementation Research AMR, $6M over 3 years (started discussion with TDR)
  6. R Gaigy Foundation at SwissTPH – OpenHDS (started discussion with Swiss TPH)
  7. Swiss Development Cooperation – Core (ongoing discussion)
  8. Dangote, Nigeria – Malaria elimination in Nigeria
  9. CRVS – Bloomberg (Don de Savigny, Swiss TPH)
  10. Partnerships with potential funding  
  • Partners In Health, Harvard Medical University – Lancet Commission on NCDIs
  • The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK)
  • Child health and climate change led by the University of Nottingham, to be submitted to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (first proposal development workshop held in March 2017)
  • Ties Boerma (University of Manitoba, Canada) Collaboration between the Countdown to 2030 for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) and the INDEPTH Network
  • NEPAD –  the role of INDEPTH in implementation of the Strategy for Harmonisation of Statistics in Africa (SHaSA)
  • Andy Haines (LSHTM). Health and Sustainable Development to be submitted to the UK Global Challenges Research Fund.  Focuses on three interlinked themes – climate change, sustainable food systems and nutrition and sustainable, healthy cities.

Completed Projects 2016/2017

  1. Ebola Preparedness – workshop held in February 2016 in Accra (Ghana); funded by Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (US) for $147,718.
  2. OPTIMUNISE; funded by the EU for €2,999,970 between 2011 and 2016; HDSS sites – Bandim (Guinea Bissau), Navrongo (Ghana), Nouna (Burkina Faso), Chakaria (Bangladesh), Kintampo (Ghana), Nairobi (Kenya)