For the first time since its inception, the ISC will be partnering with Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). Further to this, the conference will be co-hosted by the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits SPH), in collaboration with INDEPTH member Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) in South Africa (ie. Africa Centre, Agincourt and Dikgale).
The theme for this year's conference "The contribution of INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) to strengthening National Health Information systems (NHIS)" will feature presentations using longitudinal data in conjunction with censuses, national surveys and NHIS.
International keynote speakers include Dr Ties Boerma, Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO); Prof. Richard Horton, Editor of the lancet journal (UK), Prof Marcel Tanner of Director Swiss TPH Switzerland, Dr Cyril Engmann, Senior Program Officer (Neonatal Health) at the Gates Foundation and discussants Timothy Evans (Director: Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank, Lisa Berkman from Harvard, USA. From across Africa, keynote speakers include Prof. Fred Binka, Vice Chancellor University of Health and Allied Sciences Ghana, Dr Alex Ezeh African Population and Health Research Centre Kenya, Dr Osman Sankoh, Executive Director INDEPTH Network.
ISC 2013 promises to be a major global gathering of demographers, epidemiologists, public health specialists, social scientists, and other scientific researchers from Africa, Asia, Oceania and other parts of the world to reach a common understanding on future directions in demographic and health research.
It provides a platform to share experiences as well as discuss new and strategic directions within the framework of global developments in scientific research utilisation in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The conference will also examine emerging opportunities for generating, managing, analysing and sharing quality data, research methodologies and evidence. The ISC is the flagship activity of INDEPTH that has been held consistently since 2000 in rotation from one country to another across Africa and Asia.
For more information about the ISC visit: http://www.indepth-network.org/ISC, or contact az.ca.stiw@ogniP.ettelociN or gro.krowten-htpedni@nosnhoj.abaaB
