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INTREC stakeholders conference in Accra 21-22 May, 2015

Forty-six participants attended the INDEPTH Training and Research Centres of Excellence (INTREC) Final stakeholders conference in Accra.
The INTREC programme was developed to provide junior researchers in Africa and Asia an opportunity to improve their understanding of the framework and concepts of Social Determinants of Health (SDH) and to enable them to present their research findings in an actionable form to decision makers. Read more...

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Meeting in Umeå 26-27 March, 2015

On March 26-27 2015, we held a small consortium meeting in Umeå, attended by colleagues from Harvard, Heidelberg, Amsterdam and Gadjah Mada (INDEPTH was unfortunately unable to send a representative). The aim of the meeting was to identify the main lessons learned from the INTREC training, and to take the first steps in constructing a conceptual framework that will provide an easily accessible visual representation of the process that needs to be followed in order to develop a sustainable programme for capacity-building into SDH research for LMICs. This is to be one of the main outputs of the INTREC project. Our discussions also included planning for the forthcoming stakeholder meeting in Accra.

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Training in social determinants of health goes global - Article in Bow Street Bullentin - Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

INTREC Data Analyses and Writing Capacity Workshop at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies - June 16-21, 2014

This workshop successfully completes the third educational block of the INTREC program. Fourteen INDEPTH researchers from Ghana, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and Vietnam were selected to participate.

Read more in the workshop report...

INTREC workshop on research methods in Accra, 13-23 May, 2014

The workshop, organized by INDEPTH took place at Ampomaah Tourist Hotel, Accra, Ghana. There were 15 students attending the workshop, coming from Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. Joke Haafkens, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Klas-Göran Sahlén, Umeå University, Sweden were the main facilitators for the qualitative workshop while Heribert Ramroth and Nicholas Henschke facilitated the quantitative component.

Read more in the INTREC Workshop report...

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INTREC block 2 mixed methods workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, April 1-11, 2014

The workshop, organized by Gadjah Mada University, took place at Santika Hotel in Yogyakarta. There were 16 students attending the workshop, 8 students registered to the INTREC program and 8 more coming from various departments of public health in Indonesia. The quantitative methods week was lead by Dr. Heribert Ramroth and Dr. Nicholas Henshke from Heidelberg University. The qualitative part was lead by Dr. Joke Haafkens from University of Amsterdam, and Dr. Kjerstin Dahlblom from Umeå University.

Read more in the INTREC Training Report....

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WP4 meeting in Amsterdam, 27-29 May, 2013

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Report from the Stakeholders' meeting in Accra, Ghana, 19-21 March, 2013

Individual Country Reports and Policy Briefs published

International Advisory Group meeting in Frankfurt 19-20 Oct, 2012

WP 4 meeting in Heidelberg 18-19 Oct, 2012

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Newsletter 1 April, 2012

Training workshop in Yogyakarta (Febr. 2012)

Work Package 1 (‘Establishing priority areas for INTREC in the seven participating countries’) is formally starting during the week of February 20. We are holding a training workshop, hosted by Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for the seven INTREC Social Scientists (ISS) who will be conducting much of needs assessment work. We have been fortunate to recruit seven very high caliber individuals, and they will begin with data collection and analysis once they return to their respective countries directly after the workshop.
Work Package 1 will run until September 2012, by when seven country reports will have been produced, each including:
- An epidemiological snapshot of health inequities in the country
- A database of all courses on offer in the country that relate to the Social Determinants of Health (SDH), with possible training gaps identified
- A review of the literature concerning current SDH-related activities and policies
- Recommendations for action and training in SDH

Umeå University launches global action on building sustainable capacity for health research (Jan. 11, 2012)

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Press release from Umeå University (Febr. 2011)