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| Established | 1956 |
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| Founder | Rudolf Geigy |
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Staff | nearly 600 (in 2009) [1] |
| Website | www |
Formerly called | Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre |
The Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a health research organization with offices in Ifakara, Dar es Salaam, Ikwiriri, Bagamoyo, and Mtwara, Tanzania. [2] [3] The institute conducts health-related research in a variety of areas, including malaria and HIV/AIDS. [4]
A field laboratory of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute was founded in Ifakara in 1956 by Rudolf Geigy. [1] From 1981-1984, it was led by Marcel Tanner. [5] It was renamed the "Ifakara Centre" in 1991, the "Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, IHRDC" in 1996, and the "Ifakara Health Institute" in 2008. [6]
The Ifakara Health Institute was featured in the Al Jazeera Lifelines documentary The End Game in 2014. [7] Fredros Okumu gave a talk featuring the IHI at the TEDGlobal conference in 2017. [8]
IHI can refer to:
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