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The INDEPTH Network Stakeholders meeting (Re-Booting INDEPTH) took place in Accra Ghana from January 11 - January 12 2024. The meeting was attended by key stakeholders and selected INDEPTH sites.

The meeting discussed issues that affected the smooth operations of the Network, and the way forward. A summary from the meeting report has been shared with participants and other key stakeholder.

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The Executive Secretary of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) Professor John Ataguba visited the INDEPTH Secretariat to discuss potential collaborations and working with INDEPTH in the area of Health Economics. He was accompanied by Prof James Akazili (Dean of the School of Public Health, CK Tedam University). The team had discussions with Professor Philip Adongo (Executive Director of INDEPTH) and staff in the secretariat. Potential areas of collaboration identified included Capacity Building, joint development of grant proposals, barter exchange arrangement between the two organisations. Professor Adongo indicated INDEPTH's interest in vaccine trials, while Professor Ataguba touched on vaccine equity with COVID as a reference point.

 

The two organisation agreed to establish a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the need for further meeting.

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Leader of INDEPTH’s Maternal and Newborn Health Working Group, Dr. Peter Waiswa, has been promoted to Associate Professor of the Makerere University in Uganda. Additionally, he has 60 citations on PubMed.Peter is a Lecturer, Department of Health Policy,Planning and Management, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda & Global Health Division andKarolinskaInstitutet, Sweden.

The INDEPTH Network Executive Director, Prof. Osman Sankoh, congratulates Peter for the achievement and wishes him the very best in his academic career and research interests.

Peter shared the good news on his facebook wall:

“To my many teachers, financiers, work and research colleagues, collaborators, MoH and partners (KI and SNL especially), my family, and above all my parents, and God, I thank you. Today I got the long awaited email: "Promoted to Associate Professor" of Makerere University! Then I went my pubmed, and yes, I am at 60!! The no mean achievement is dedicated to my mum, daddy, wife, and kids. But the story shall be told another day: my rural classroom in my village still has dust on the floor in many "class rooms" - the rest of the story can make a movie: Where I have come from (or jenvudde". Anyway, will continue to serve my motherland: village, tribe, country and Africa.”