Opportunities from around the web:


Chief executive officer (CEO), Aids Foundation South Africa (Afsa) — KwaZulu-Natal

Afsa seeks to appoint a CEO who will be based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

The CEO will be responsible for leading the development and execution of the foundation's strategic objectives and plans in order to fulfill the foundation's purpose and mandate.

The successful candidate will have a relevant bachelor as well as a postgraduate degree. A master's degree will be considered an advantage.

Candidates will have a minimum of 10 years' experience as a senior manager with at least eight years' experience in the non-governmental, HIV or public health sectors.

Deadline: 25 November
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Call for proposals, WHO: Small grants for innovative uses of GIS in polio eradication

The WHO's polio eradication programme in the organisation's regional Africa office is seeking applications for research grants ranging from US$8 000 to US$12 000 to fund projects on the innovative use of geographic information systems (GIS) and other technologies for polio eradication and other public health uses.

Interested researchers and innovators are encouraged to submit a proposal related to the use of innovative technologies for areas including surveillance, outbreak response and supplemental immunisation. Innovations proposed can include, for instance, GIS, remote sensing, drones or artificial intelligence. 

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Global Health Supply Chain Summit — Johannesburg, 20 to 22 November 

The 12th Global Health Supply Chain Summit will focus on maximising global health supply chain impact through data and analytics, entrepreneurship and accessibility. As in the previous conferences, the summit will assemble an impressive group of practitioners and experts from the global health supply chain field including academics, country planners, NGOs, logistics practitioners, pharmaceutical industry, and donor representatives. English and French translation will be provided.

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Evaluation consultant, Partnership to Inspire, Transform, and Connect the HIV response, Aidsfonds and Frontline AIDS 

The Partnership to Inspire, Transform, and Connect the HIV response (Pitch) is a five-year global advocacy programme operating in nine countries (Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Ukraine, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe), two regions (Southern Africa and Eastern Europe & Central Asia), and at the global policy level. 

Aidsfonds and Frontline AIDS are seeking proposals from individuals, groups or companies with experience conducting reviews and evaluations of human rights and HIV/Aids programmes to evaluate the project. Applicants should have demonstrated knowledge and understanding of advocacy for human rights programming in the context of HIV/Aids and experience of using the Outcome Harvesting, and Stories of Change approaches in an advocacy context. Frontline AIDS will directly contract consultants.

Deadline: 5 December 12pm GMT
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Webinar, Public funding of biomedical R&D: The role for public investment funds and financial markets — 28 November 

The role of public funding in biomedical research and development (R&D) is a longstanding topic of interest both in academic literature and in policy debates. Debate has often focused on the public funding of R&D through direct grants, tax incentives and the purchase of the end product by public health systems. This webinar aims to bring a new element to the debate: the role of public investment funds. The webinar will take place at 4pm to 5pm Central European Time and will be available as a recording later. 

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Call for entries, health documentaries, the World Health Organisation (WHO)

The WHO Health for All Film Festival invites independent film-makers, production companies, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films on health. The Film Festival aims to recruit a new generation of film and video innovators to champion and promote global health issues. Films are a powerful way to raise awareness, improve understanding and encourage action. 

The submissions can be on any health issue, including the social and environmental determinants of health for the first two categories (non-fiction and animation). The third category focuses on nurses or midwives to pay tribute to the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife in 2020. Only films completed between 1 January 2017 and 30 January 2020 are eligible for the festival, which will take place in May 2020.

Deadline: 30 January 2020
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Lecture, 'Climate, hay fever, murder and honey: What pollen can tell about the past, present and future' — University of the Witwatersrand Origins Centre, 21 November, 6pm

Palynology is the analysis of pollen, spores and a multitude of other organic-walled microfossils. The method was first invented to correlate coal seams by looking at changes within the pollen and spore assemblages. Today, many other applications exist from reconstructing what the world looked like for the dinosaurs to tracking pollen levels for allergy sufferers. The field can also be used to track down illicit honey and ... maybe even crack unsolved murder cases. Find out how via the university's Frank Neumann. 

Tickets: Adults R65.00, Students R35.00, Preferential R50.00. You can book your seat on webtickets (from 15 November); tickets also available at the door. For more information, email bookings.origins@wits.ac.za or call 011 717 4700. 




Call for registration, International AIDS Conference — San Francisco and Oakland

Registration has been opened for the 23rd International AIDS Conference which will take place from 6 to 10 July 2020.

Next year's Aids Conference will mark the first time the world's largest conference on HIV and AIDS will be hosted in two neighbouring cities.

Conference registration has opened two months early to allow delegates more time to apply for visas.

Early registration ends on 15 January 2020. Group registration only applies to five or more people and the organisation requesting a group registration must nominate one group representative who will administer the group booking.

Media registration is free for eligible members of the media who will be attending in their capacity as journalists, photographers, videographers and community educators.

For more information about visa applications, click here.
To register, click here.



Call for public comment, National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill — deadline extended

The Portfolio Committee on Health invites stakeholders and interested parties to submit written submissions on the NHI Bill now before 29 November.

The objective of the Bill is to achieve universal access to quality healthcare services in South Africa as per Section 27 of the Constitution. 

As part of this, the Bill sets up the creation of an NHI Fund and outlines its powers, functions and governance structures. The Fund will be used to strategically purchase healthcare services on behalf of citizens and certain categories of foreign nationals to ensure the equitable, effective and efficient utilisation of its resources.

Deadline: 29 November
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For any inquiries email Vuyokazi Majalamba or call her on 021 403 3770 or 083 709 8522

PS ICYMI: Our recent story about the quality of public participation made some major waves. Now, we've created a survey to help put some numbers behind the narratives.

Take a couple of minutes to take our 12-question survey and help us gauge the level of public participation around the process and possible ways to improve it.

While the survey is anonymous, we'll publish the results on our website, bhekisisa.org at the end of the submission period. They will also be made available on nhilibrary.com. We will not include submissions marked as private in the results.



Call for female experts in any field, Quote This Woman+ 

Quote This Woman+ is a project to establish an online database of women and non-binary experts to improve gender representation in sourcing among the media. During the election season alone, Quote This Woman+ fielded more than 500 calls from journalists wanting to increase the voices of women in the media.

Keen to be quoted? Submit your details to kathy@augury.co.za. 

Deadline: N/A
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