INDEPTH Network Takes Stock of 2012 as it Holds its 12th Annual General Meeting

INDEPTH held its 12th Annual GeneralMeeting (AGM) in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam with a call on members of the Network to generate statistical data and information that can beused both nationally and globally.

Delivering the State of the Network address to over 40 representatives of the Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs) in low- and middle-income countries across Africa, Asia and Oceania who constitute the membership of the Network, Executive Director of INDEPTH, Professor Osman Sankoh recounted the Network’s activities and achievements since the last AGM held in Maputo, Mozambique in October 2011. read more

Sharing The INDEPTH Experience to Africa, the Far East and Asia

During the months of October through to December, the Executive Director of INDEPTH Professor Osman Sankoh undertook a number of trips aimed at strategically building and strengthening collaborations with key institutions in Africa and the Far East. These trips were also aimed at presenting INDEPTH and sharing the Network's experience with different groups.They also afforded Osman the opportunity to demonstrate the value of the unique HDSS longitudinal data in estimating key indicators for measuring developmental goals. read more

INDEPTH Workshops- A Key Avenue For Strengthening Capacity Of Member Centres

Capacity strengthening and training workshops have been consistently utilised by INDEPTH to support member centres to improve upon various aspects of HDSS work.For example, some INDEPTH workshops have been held to improve upon the knowledge and skills of members to produce quality data, while others have been used to train scientists, data managers and researchers to enable them to critically analyse their data and identify and rectify major problems.read more

Profiles for 4th Quarter Newsletter

In this edition of our Quarterly newsletter we continue to profile key personalities whose experience, health research knowledge and effective network management skills are constantly placed at the disposal of INDEPTH Network. They contribute to shaping the scientific vision of the Network and ultimately help to strengthen the Network in many diverse ways.This edition carries the profiles of the current vice-chair of the INDEPTH Board of Trustees Dr Sanjay Juvekar centre leader of Vadu Health and Demographic Surveillance System site in India and an immediate outgone member who served on the INDEPTH Board of Trustees: Dr. Ali Sie centre leader of Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System site in Burkina Faso .read more

INDEPTH Joins Collaborators To Discuss Health Research Contracting

Negotiating fair, just and equitable health research contracts is a skill that has for a long time eluded research institutions and individual researchers (including those in health research) in low- and middle- income countries across the world.INDEPTH Network, concerned about this state of affairs (particularly since it is one of the challenges facing some of its member centres), participated in a three-day meeting organised by the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) in October, to consider ways of assisting south-based health research institutions to acquire the requisite skills for negotiating research contracts that would be fair and mutually beneficial to all parties.read more

Visitors to The Secretariat

The INDEPTH Secretariat in Accra, Ghana, has been playing host to many high profile visitors and guests comprising funders, collaborators and partners (both current and potential) who wish to further acquaint themselves with the coordinating work of the secretariat as well as Network activities in general.It is both an honour and a duty to share the highpoints of the interactions with notable visitors to the Secretariat during the last quarter of 2012.

The visitors included: Dr. Jimmy Whitworth, Head of International Activities - Science Funder of The Wellcome Trust (UK), a delegation from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation (USA) and Professor Loyiso Nongxa, Vice-Chancellor of the Ivy League University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). read more