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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT: On the #WorldMalariaDay2022 - Together, we can #FightForWhatCounts to #EndMalaria
It’s World Malaria Day today. Ifakara Health Institute Chief Executive Director, Dr. Honorati Masanja, has issued an official statement on the Day. While focusing on this year’s theme: “Harness innov…
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TRAINING: Short course on health impact assessment of large infrastructure projects
Ifakara Health Institute's Health Impact Assessment for Sustainable Development (HIA4SD) project plans to host a short course on health impact assessment of large infrastructure projects. Experts from Ifakara, Tan…
A volunteer gets tested for COVID-19 at Kivule in Dar es Salaam recently. PHOTO | COURTESY/Dr. Mwifadhi Mrisho
COVID-19: Voluntary testing in Dar neighborhoods gets underway
As part of implementation of a program being implemented at Ifakara Health Institute under a study to evaluate Tanzania's COVID-19 implementation plans, an Ifakara team from the COVITEST project have started volun…
Head of the Interventions and Clinical Trials unit at Ifakara, Dr. Ally Olotu, clarifies a point a Oxford's Prof. Adrian Hill (left) listens attentively on day one of the visit. PHOTO | IFAKARA/Coms.
TOUR: Ifakara hosts Oxford's top malaria vaccine scientist, Times journalist in Bagamoyo
For two days - April 11 & 12, 2022 - Ifakara Health Institute hosted a team of scientists, researchers and journalists from the UK’s Oxford University, Malaria No More and The Times newspaper at the…
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TRAINING: NEST360 empowers health workers, engineers on effective care of infants
The NEST360 program, which is being implemented in Tanzania by Ifakara Health Institute and partners, has hosted another session of training of trainers for clinicians, nurses, engineers and technicians focusing care …
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ENGAGEMENT: Sustainable Cities project disseminates research findings to Dodoma, Dar stakeholders
Ifakara’s Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighborhoods (SHLC) project hosted stakeholder engagement meetings on March 29, 2022 in Dodoma and on March 31, 2022 in Dar es Salaam to disseminate findin…
Ifakara and Mwananyamala doctors and nurses attend to people who went to the Dar hospital get educated on TB and test for the disease free of charge. PHOTO | IFAKARA/Coms.
TB DAY 2022: Ifakara invests in research to end tuberculosis, save lives
Today, on March 24, Ifakara Health Institute marks the World TB Day in style with free consultation and testing on the disease at Mwananyamala Regional Referral Hospital where Ifakara runs a TB clinic for care and res…
The UGHE Clinical Trials Manager Bibie Ngungwa speaks during the closing ceremony at the Ifakara's Clinical Trials Facility in Bagamoyo on Friday, March 25, 2022. PHOTO | IFAKARA/Coms
TRAINING: Ifakara empowers Rwandan university scientists on clinical trials
For slightly over one month, Ifakara Health Institute is hosting a team of four scientists from the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) of Rwanda to introduce them to the principles and practice of clinical tria…
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TALK: Visiting Danish professor gives lecture on “risk-assessment of vector-borne diseases”
On Monday afternoon, Ifakara Health Institute collaborator Prof. Jakob Brandtberg Knudsen from the Royal Danish Academy (RDA) gave a talk headlined, "Risk-assessment of Vector-borne Diseases Based on Deep Learnin…
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LIVE: Ifakara scientists to share insights from African conversations on “Gene Drives for Malaria.”
Ifakara Health Institute researchers, Drs. Lina Finda and Fredros Okumu, will go live on Twitter Spaces on Monday, March 21st 2022 from 12 PM (that’s 16 GMT) to share their insights from the conversatio…