ISC 2013: Presentations, Day 1

INDEPTH SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE 2013 PRRSENTATIONS 28-31 October, 2013 Johannesburg, South Africa
Theme:The contribution of INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance sites to strengthening the National Health Information Systems

Monday, 28 October 2013, Day 1
9:00 - 11:00	SESSION 1 (Plenary):
	Welcome address: (Wits University School of Public Health, South Africa)
	Statement: Pali Lehohla (Statistics South Africa)
	INDEPTH Board Chair statement: Marcel Tanner(Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland)
	Keynote speaker: Adam Habib (Vice-Chancellor, Wits University, South Africa)
	Highlights of HDSS work in South Africa (Africa Centre, Agincourt and Dikgale): Kathleen Kahn (Agincourt, South Africa)
	INDEPTH Executive Director: Vision statement - Osman Sankoh (INDEPTH)

11:30 - 13:00	SESSION 2 PLENARY: PROFILING CRITICAL INDEPTH PROJECTS I
	Welcome and introductions: Chair - Fred Binka (University of Allied Sciences, Ghana) Presentation 1: Newborn Health - Peter Waiswa (Iganga/Mayuge, Uganda) Presentation 2: Optimunize - Peter Aaby (Bandim, Guinea Bissau) Presentation 3: Malaria attributable mortality -Seth Owusu-Agyei (Kintampo, Ghana) Presentation 4: Adult Health and Ageing - Stephen Tollman (Agincourt, South Africa) Presentation 5: INDEPTH Cause of Death - Peter Byass (Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden)
14:00 - 16:00	SESSION 3 PLENARY: PROFILING CRITICAL INDEPTH PROJECTS II
	Welcome and introductions: Chair - Marcel Tanner (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland) Presentation 1: The INDEPTH Effectiveness and Safety Studies of Anti- malarial Drugs in Africa (INESS) - Fred Binka Presentation 2: Africa Wits-INDEPTH partnership for the GENomic study of body composition and Cardiometabolic risk (AWI-Gen) - Michele Ramsay (Wits University, South Africa) Presentation 3: INDEPTH Universal Health Coverage - Philip Dalinjong (Navrongo, Ghana) Nguyen T.K. Chuc (Filabavi, Vietnam) Presentation 4: Migration, Urbanisation and Health - Mark Collinson (Agincourt , South Africa) Presentation 5: Public Health Capacity - Tobias Chirwa (Wits, South Africa) Presentation 6: INDEPTH iSHARE 2/ INDEPTHStats - Kobus Herbst (Africa Centre, South Africa) Sanjay Juvekar (Vadu, India) Martin Bangha (INDEPTH)
	SESSION 4: PARALLEL A & B
	SESSION 4 A : INDEPTH FINDINGS ON CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY
	Welcome and introductions: Chair - Superat Phuanukoonnon (Wosera, Papua New Guinea) Presentation 1: Causes of Death in INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Centres in Africa-Abdouramane Soura (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) Presentation 2: Causes of Death in INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Centres in Asia- Sanjay Rai (Ballabgarh, India) Presentation 3: INDEPTH cause of death data for tracking Millenium Development Goals-Martin Bangha (INDEPTH Secretariat) Presentation 4: AIDS mortality using INDEPTH data and other sources (Africa Centre, South Africa)
16:30 - 18:00	SESSION 4 B : ROLE OF HDSS IN STRENGTHENING LINKAGES BETWEEN HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HEALTH RESEARCH SYSTEMS: Venue: Lecture Room 1
	Welcome and introductions: Chair - Frank Odhiambo (Kisumu, Kenya) Presentation 1: Comparison between longitudinal and census data in accessing population size and child mortality: experience from Kemri/CDC HDSS - Nyaguara Amek (Kisumu, Kenya) Presentation 2: Levels and causes of adult mortality in The Gambia - Momodou Jasseh (Farafenni, The Gambia) Presentation 3: Linking HDSS mortality data with vital registration data - lessons learned from Agincourt, South Africa - Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula (Agincourt, South Africa) Presentation 4: A cross-site comparison of maternal deaths using Kenya National Census and HDSS data - George Mochamah (Kilifi, Kenya) Discussant: Samuel Clark (University of Washington, USA & Agincourt, South Africa)