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INDEPTH invites you to its 10th AGM in Accra, GhanaThe INDEPTH Secretariat wishes to invite you to our 10th AGM at the Mensvic Hotel, East Legon in Accra, Ghana from 27-30 September 2010. Theme INDEPTH: Lessons for the future direction in demographic and health research in developing countries We utilise our AGM every year mainly as a scientific forum for members and others to share their research based on health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs). The AGM also does administrative business. For information on call for abstract click CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Please contact Dr. Ayaga Bawah for other information on the scientific aspects. For all other arrangements, please contact our AGM Co-ordinator Mrs Felicia Manu Asamoa. More details To have an idea of how our AGMs are organised, see last year's programme: AGM 2009 Programme of Activities Principal Investigators for INDEPTH StudiesEach INDEPTH study will be led by a Principal Investigator (PI) who is selected from among the researchers participating in the study based on his/her qualification, experience, and expressed commitment to lead the study. The participating researchers will nominate the PI to the Executive Director. The ED then presents the PI to the INDEPTH Board for ratification. The PI is responsible for the execution of the study including design, data collection, analysis and reporting. The Secretariat in Accra will support the PI in execution of the study. It is sometimes necessary to establish a satellite secretariat in the country where the PI is based for the duration of the project. These satellite secretariats are guided by INDEPTH policies. The Accra secretariat works closely with the satellite secretariat to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of operations. The INDEPTH Standard for Data QualityINDEPTH will invest resources to assure high quality data generated at its member sites so that an INDEPTH Stamp for Data Quality will be issued in the longrun. Starting with the MINIMUM DATA SET condition which is now used for site membership, the Secretariat is establishing in consultation with the Scientific Advisory Committee and other stakeholders, a DATA QUALITY INSPECTION TEAM. As a first step, the Secretariat is providing on this website a RESOURCE CENTRE for DATA ASSURANCE. The Resource Centre will contain a pool of resources including:
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(February 2010)
Dr. Osman Sankoh
Fred Binka dedicates Ronald Ross Medal to the INDEPTH FamilyDear INDEPTH Family, Responding to a flurry of emails congratulating him on the award of the Ronald Ross Medal, Fred Binka wrote today February 12: "I am sure you all know I am very excited by this award especially because it is Ronald Ross and my work over the years has been Malaria Epidemiology and its control. However this achievement has been a collective effort by so many of you who worked tirelessly and continue to do so to the keep the flag of Indepth-Network on the Global Scientific map. Our Professor Fred Binka (FB) is one of the two awardees of this year's RONALD ROSS MEDAL instituted in 1997 by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The medal was instituted to commemorate the centenary of Ross' discovery of the transmission of malaria by the mosquito. Please join me in congratulating Fred on another laurel that puts INDEPTH Network on the map! Osman  News Flash
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
