Amnesty International South Africa is seeking a high-profile, inspirational and experienced Director who is able to lead and grow our operations in South Africa and represent the organization externally to deliver positive change in the human rights situation nationally, regionally and globally. See further information at the website.
Jobs and Announcements
Call for applicants: Amnesty International South Africa Executive Director
Closing date: 5th June 2014
Call for papers on participatory visual methodologies
Deadline for manuscript submission: 15 October 2015.
Global Public Health invites the submission of full-length articles for a special journal issue on the theme Participatory Visual Methodologies and Global Public Health, co-edited by Claudia Mitchell and Marni Sommer, Send note of intention to submit & working title to evasquezgph@gmail.com
Contact: evasquezgph@gmail.com
Call for papers: World Health & Population (WHP)
Deadline: 9 June 2014
Attacks on Healthcare Workers in Conflict Zones – Fall 2014. World Health & Population (WHP) is publishing a theme issue on the nature and impacts of attacks on health workers, facilities, transports and patients in times of armed conflict or civil unrest – and strategies for protection. WHP welcomes submissions for the theme issue in the form of empirical studies, evaluations and policy analysis including the broad range of issues as listed below:
• Studies exploring the vulnerabilities of healthcare in situations of armed conflict or civil unrest
• Studies on the short, intermediate and long term impacts of violence on health systems
• Strategies for supporting the safety and well-being of civilian health and human resources in
situations of armed conflict or civil unrest
• Policies and actions at the national, regional and global level that can promote the respect and protection of healthcare.
Call for Proposals: Health Policy and Research Organizations
Deadline: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 17:00 GMT
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa program is launching a call for proposals for the selection of Health Policy and Research Organizations. This program is funded by Canada’s Global Health Research Initiative, a collaboration ofForeign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and IDRC. Organizations (or the lead organization of a consortium) must:
• be a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization legally founded and registered as an independent entity in the country of operation. Only non-partisan and not-for-profit organizations can be included in a consortium.
• be an African organization. United Nations agencies and international organizations based in Africa or overseas are ineligible to be the lead organization or to be part of a consortium.
• support a health policy development and implementation mandate through knowledge brokering, analysis, and research.
• work in at least one of the targeted countries and demonstrate willingness and capacity to expand their work in all the other targeted countries in the selected HPRO region (East or West).
Invitation for letters of interest: Improving the careers of women research scientists in infectious diseases of poverty
Submission deadline: 30 September 2014
TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases celebrates 40 years in 2014 and has a longstanding commitment to improve gender equity in health. TDR is inviting letters of interest from women scientists and research managers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs ) to develop their ideas on how to improve career development for women research scientists working in the area of infectious diseases of poverty. Letters of interest that are selected will receive funding of US$ 10 000 to develop and elaborate a full concept.
10th Public Health Association of South Africa
Polokwane, South Africa, 3-6 September 2014
The 10th anniversary of the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) conference will be celebrated with the hosting of the conference in Polokwane (Limpopo) from 3 to 6 September 2014. The workshops will take place on the 3rd, the actual conference on the 4th and 5th, and the student symposium on the 6th of September.
Africa Speaks: Request for a video clip
Closing date: 30 June 2014
The Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR) is to be held from 30 September – 3 October 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa (http://hsr2014.healthsystemsresearch.org/). This is the first time this Symposium has been held in Africa. The theme of the 2014 symposium is: the science and practice of people–centred health systems. The involvement of people both in their own health decisions and in those concerning the development of a health system is a vital platform for effective service delivery and for ensuring the health system offers wider value in society.
The opening plenary (on 30th September 2014) will have a specific African focus – and its theme is governance and health in Africa. As part of this opening ceremony the organisers would like to feature different voices from the African continent and provide African stakeholders with an opportunity to share their perspective on the theme of the symposium. They would like you to identify a stakeholder whose voice you feel would be important to feature in the opening plenary and to record a short interview with them. It could be someone you work closely with – such as a health worker, a researcher, a community member or a client or user of the health service. Someone that you feel represents a critical constituency from the African continent. Depending on the volume and quality of material received we will seek to project the clips at other moments during the conference, and also post them on the conference website.
Further details: /newsletter/id/38956
Call for papers: 2014 Association of African Planning Schools Conference, Cape Town
Closing date: 31 May 2014
AAPS 2014 will focus on the central themes and problems of African urbanization. While the conference is focused on sub-Saharan Africa, the discussion will be extended to other contexts in the global South. The AAPS 2014 Conference will feature keynote presentations from a number of international experts on cities and urbanization in Africa and the global South, including Edgar Pieterse (African Centre for Cities) and Colin MacFarlane (Durham University). The conference is aimed at urban planning educators, researchers and practitioners seeking to enhance their knowledge of the contemporary issues and debates surrounding African and Southern cities and urbanization. It will also appeal to other built environment professionals, as well as academics in related disciplines with an interest in urban issues.
Codesria 2014 Democratic Governance Institute, 04 - 15 August 2014, Dakar Senegal
Deadline for applications: 13th June, 2014
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the 2014 session of its annual Democratic Governance Institute. The theme is: Building more resilient societies: human security and risk management in Africa. CODESRIA researchers to submit their applications for participation in this institute.
CODESRIA Methodology Workshop Series: Training the Trainers in Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Social Science Research, Dakar, Senegal, 1st – 5th September, 2014
Deadline for applications: 30 May 2014
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the 2014 session of an initiative targeted at those members of the African social research community who, in their universities, are responsible for teaching social science research methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In cognisance of the multi-faceted crises confronting the African higher education system in general and the universities in particular, CODESRIA has invested itself in offering platforms for postgraduate students and mid-career professionals to be offered opportunities for training in quantitative and qualitative research methods. The first tranche of such training opportunities centred on quantitative research methods. Over the last few years, the accent was shifted to qualitative research methods. Organised as advanced research seminars at which participants were exposed to various methodological techniques and their roots in the history and philosophy of science. CODESRIA organises five research methodology workshops every year on the basis of one per sub-region, one specially dedicated to Nigeria and English-speaking countries of West and Central Africa, and one for trainers. This last one brings together researchers who have responsibility for imbuing others with the basic skills they require in order to be successful researchers.