INTREC Aims and Objectives

What is INTREC, and what does it aim to do?

The name ‘INTREC’ stands for ‘INDEPTH Training and Research Centres of Excellence’. Our aim is to develop and provide appropriate training for researchers from the INDEPTH network in Asia and Africa,

•  to investigate the social determinants of health (SDH) and health inequities in their countries, and
• to learn about effective presentation of their findings to decision makers at national and local/district level.

Two training and research centres will be established – one in Accra, Ghana; and the other in Yogyakarta, Indonesia – and these will serve, at least initially, SAGE and other INDEPTH scientists from Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. For this work, INTREC has received €1,997,402 in funding from the European Commission, to last up until May 2015.