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SEASONAL GREETINGS: Happy New Year 2025 to you all!
Happy New Year from all of us at the Ifakara Health Institute!

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SEASONAL GREETINGS: Happy Christmas to you all!
It’s Christmas today! – a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ – to the Christian faithful a symbol of hope, love, and s…

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HOLIDAY SEASON: Let’s go recharge and come back fresh!
As the year winds down, the Ifakara Health Institute will be taking a break to celebrate the end-of-the-year and start-of-the-year holidays. This is done for our staff and collaborators to recharge and come back fresh…
A snip from the Dec 2024 edition's featured story. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications Dec 20, 2024
MTAFITI: The next-generation wearables
"MTAFITI" - the monthly news and events round-up of Ifakara Health Institute - December 2024 edition is out. This edition explores how next-generation wearables are set to transform diagnostics and revolutio…

Members of a Task Force for the development of a national communication strategy on vital statistics pose for a group photo on December 17, 2024 shortly after concluding their two-day workplan writing session in Morogoro, Tanzania.
WORKSHOP: Setting stage for a national comms strategy on vital statistics
The Ifakara Health Institute coordinated a two-day workshop from December 16-17, 2024, in Morogoro, Tanzania, focusing on developing a national strategy for communication, advocacy, and dissemination of vital statisti…

(L-R) Mr. Peter Sasse receives a memento from Ifakara Health Institute's Chief Executive Director, Dr. Honorati Masanja, during a farewell session in Dar es Salaam. Photo by IFAKARA Communications.
FAREWELL: Celebrating over a decade of transformational service to Ifakara
Ifakara Health Institute has bid farewell to Mr. Peter Sasse, a long-serving Technical Advisor who dedicated 15 years to the organization.
Since joining the institute in 2…

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NEW PROJECT: Groundbreaking study to measure chikungunya burden in East Africa
The Ifakara Health Institute is proud to be part of an international team launching the lar…

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AWARD: Ifakara secures prestigious grant for exploring poverty-health dynamics
Ifakara Health Institute has been awarded a major grant of GBP 35,000 to lead a research initiative aimed at understanding the drivers and influence of household and geographical poverty on health, demand and supply o…

A screenshot from the virtual session held on Google Meet.
WEBINAR: Exploring nanotechnology’s transformative role in malaria drug discovery
Scientists, researchers, and students from across Africa engaged physically and virtually from the Ifakara Health Instiute center in Bagamoyo, Tanzania today when they took part in an inspiring exploration of nanotech…

PMI Resident Advisor Naomi Serbantez gestures as she stresses a point when speaking at the PMI Shinda (Defeat) Malaria Year Two Annual Joint Project Planning Meeting held in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO | Courtesy of Shinda (Defeat) Malaria/David Sambwe
MEETING: Malaria program holds annual planning session with stakeholders
The PMI Shinda (Defeat) Malaria project, funded by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), and implemented by the Ifakara Health Institute and partners, yesterday hosted stakeholders in the fight against …