SAPRIN Co-Director; Wits Reader in Population and Public Health; Migration, Urbanisation, and Health; Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems; South Africa
Wits Rural Campus
Joined February 2016
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Request for Application: Hosting a SAPRIN Node in eThekwini Metro and rural Eastern Cape Province. Closing date: 18h00 on Friday 18th March 2022. samrc.ac.za/request-for-appl…
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In a new report: National Dpt of Sci_&_Innovation asked us for 5 @saprin_mrc achievements. We said: Implementation of a core protocol, two data releases, StatsSA MoU, two new urban nodes, & addition of a Covid19 surveillance module. Interesting progression
SA is preparing for the @ICPD25 Nairobi Summit. There is a stakeholder consultation this afternoon. I am going to raise the value of HDSS data for evaluating national statistics & reporting labour migration as a subset of migration flows. Text me if you want me to raise an issue.
I am representing @saprin_mrc at a South-South Collaboration workshop which is a burst of energy preparing for the Nairobi Summit #ICPD25. Key is the data ecosystem, including evaluation of national indicators.
Kobus will present SAPRIN's potential contribution @saprin_mrc at the Nairobi Summit. MoUs with StatsSA, Dept. Social Development and Dept Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, will be important in attaining this.
Today is Wits School of Public Health Lekgotla. My SAPRIN input: the nature of national research infrastructures = accessibility, harmonised data, and being national. Associated training at universities = multicentre event history analysis and triangulation with national data.
We will set up a formal SAPRIN Twitter account, vetted and official, and then Kobus and I can independently add comments/reflections. SAPRIN requires establishing a great HDSS standard model, which is interesting. Residence and migration surveillance on our minds at the moment.
Twitter seems to deal a lot with facts, as if they are fixed already. I would have more to share if I could share plans, ideas and speculations.
We are building the technology to make the data accessible - through INDEPTH iShare and individual HDSS web-sites xitter.cf/PhBocquier/status/6991…