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The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, in collaboration with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, is organizing an inter-disciplinary symposium on the different techniques and applications for mortality estimation during armed conflicts.

The aim is to strengthen the scientific basis by drawing on recent progress in disciplines such as field epidemiology, demography, forensics and statistical analyses to better build bridges between these disciplines and develop complementary approaches towards the estimation of mortality in conflicts.

The international symposium will be held in at the Fondation Universitaire in Brussels on the 6th and 7th of November 2008.

For more information, please consult:

http://conference.cedat.be/

ACF is looking for an experienced nurse / nutritionist (with consultant status) for a position of Medico-Nutritional Coordinator in Bangladesh, a challenging opportunity for 3 months, and to be filled as soon as possible! (click here to download the TOR)

The job focuses on networking with several partners in nutrition, developing ACF nutrition programs in the country particularly operational research, and participating to national guidelines for community based management of severe acute malnutrition. See ToR attached.

Feel free to share this offer widely around you – applications should be sent to recrutementvolontaires@actioncontrelafaim.org

Note: other interesting nutrition positions are currently open – more information on ACF website http://www.actioncontrelafaim.org

- nutrition & health expert for ACF-F based in Paris HQ – permanent contract

- emergency nutrition coordinator to be part of the emergency pool – based in Paris HQ but “flying” position

- nutrition expert for 6 months evaluation – based in the field  

- nurse nutritionist for nutrition & mortality survey in Chad

- nurse nutritionist for nutrition surveillance & CMAM programmes in Ethiopia (1 year)

At the request of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to the CE‐DAT team, a rapid analysis of the food price increases on populations of concern was undertaken and is now available online here.

Summary

The rapid analysis conducted suggested that, on average, the cost of minimum food rations has risen by 91% (range 72‐106%) over the 2006 to 2008 year‐to‐date period. The price of individual components of the food rations, on average, were seen to have risen by 63% (range: a decrease of 13% for the world price of sugar to an increase of 177% for the price of Canadian wheat) over the 2006 to 2008 year‐to‐date period.

We have just started a Request For Proposal (RFP) to redesign our main website. We will be accepting proposals until June 22, 2008, please do not hesitate to contact us if you want to get a copy of the RFP document.

Access to survey reports is now possible for CE-DAT Network members.

Reports for all surveys in CE-DAT are not presently available, but more will be added gradually as field agencies provide us with digital copies of the reports.

A new tabular data interface is now available. Click here for more information.

International CRED summer course:
Assessing Public Health in Emergency Situation (APHES)
Organizer:
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
Date and Place:
July 7th – 18th, 2007, Brussels (Belgium).
More Information:
Official website

Scientific evidence supports UN OCHA extrapolation on Darfur mortality (download pdf — 230 KB).

On April 22nd 2008, Sir John Holmes, the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, mentioned at the Security Council that the conflict in Darfur might have caused 300,000 dead as of that day. He added this “is not a very scientifically based figure" but that "it's a reasonable extrapolation”. The CRED CE-DAT team, which has been monitoring the Darfur situation since 2005, examined the scientific data to see if it supports Holmes’s statement.

Download the chart (pdf — 129 KB) (ppt — 295 KB).

A CE-DAT brief on Haiti is now available online.

Produced in March 21, 2008 the document includes brief information on the nutrition situation and nutrition initiatives nationwide. The survey data included in the brief is from the period April 2004 to April 2005.

You can access it here.

A CE-DAT brief on South Asia IDPs & refugees is now available online.

Produced in March 7, 2008 the document includes brief information on:

1) Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
2) Tibetan Refugees in India
3) Sri Lankan Refugees in India
4) Sri Lankan IDPs

You can access it here.