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Ifakara Health Institute

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Established
  
1956

Founder
  
Rudolph Geigy

Staff
  
nearly 600 (in 2009)

Headquarters
  
Ifakara, Tanzania

Founded
  
1956

Ifakara Health Institute httpssitesgooglecomaihiortzihimainsite

Formerly called
  
Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre

Similar
  
MSABI, PATH, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, The Global Fund to Fight AID, Drugs for Neglected Diseases

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The Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a health research organization with offices in Ifakara, Dar es Salaam, Ikwiriri, Bagamoyo, and Mtwara, Tanzania. The institute conducts health-related research in a variety of areas, including malaria and HIV/AIDS.

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Dr salim abdulla director ifakara health institute


History

A field laboratory of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute was founded in Ifakara in 1956 by Rudolf Geigy. From 1981-1984, it was led by Marcel Tanner. 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.

The Ifakara Health Institute was featured in the Al Jazeera Lifelines documentary The End Game in 2014.

References

Ifakara Health Institute Wikipedia