Training facilitator, Dr. Honorati Masanja, lectures health workers from Dar es Salaam, Mbeya and Kilimanjaro facilities on the first day of the three-day NEST360 in-service training on neonatal care in Dar es Salaam on July 13, 2020. PHOTO | Joseph Madata/IHIcoms
Over 50 health workers sharpen neonatal care skills
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and partners, through the NEST 360° project, hosted a three-day meeting and in-service training for health care workers from Mbeya, Kilimanjaro and Dar es Salaam facilities.
The project, which kic…
Dr. Irene Masanja. PHOTO | File
IHI senior researcher Dr. Irene Masanja dies at 46
A senior public health researcher with Ifakara Health Institute, Dr. Irene Masanja, passed away at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam on the afternoon of May 12, 2020 aged 46 and was buried in Dodoma on Thursday, May 14, 2020. She j…
Annopheles. PHOTO | File/IHIcoms
World Malaria Day 2020 marked amid COVID-19
On World Malaria Day 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) stresses we must continue to be bold and assert that “Zero malaria starts with me”. According to the WHO, the theme of this year’s celebration emphasizes the critica…
Secretary to the Ifakara Health Institute Institutional Review Board (IHI-IRB), Dr. Mwifadhi Mrisho, presents to training participants on research ethics and their application in public health research during the BOHEMIA Census Training held in Rufiji, Tanzania from March 02 - 13, 2020. PHOTO | Joseph Madata/IHIcoms
BOHEMIA project hosts census training in Rufiji
The BOHEMIA (Broad One Health Endectocide-based Malaria Intervention in Africa) project conducted a two-week census training for fieldworkers and supervisors. The training covered a number of topics including: ethics and their application in rese…
Representatives from APHFTA, CSSC and PharmAccess display a ‘Quality Improvement Declaration’ they signed, committing to strengthening quality in Tanzania’s private healthcare sector. PHOTO/Joseph Madata/IHIcoms
SafeCare project holds one-day symposium in Dar
A one-day symposium was held in Dar es Salaam on 28th February 2020 to learn from the results of evaluations of quality improvement programmes, and to discuss the way forward for institutionalizing quality in Tanzania’s private sector.
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Training participants sketch in one of the group sessions during the training. PHOTO/Courtesy of Gumi Abdallah/QUADS
IHI project trains public health champions in Mtwara
Ifakara Health Institute QUADS project conducted quality improvement training for champions of the project in Mtwara region during the first week of February 2020. The training aimed to scale up the proven quality improvement model used by the pr…
Dr. Elisaria. She leads a team of IHI researchers assessing the drivers of stunting in Njombe. PHOTO | FILE
Njombe: Assessment of stunting drivers underway
Dr. Esther Elisaria leads an Ifakara Health Institute team of researchers assessing drivers of stunting in Njombe region. The team, which kicked off the assignment on January 26, is expected to complete the job on February 10, 2020.
The…
IHI researcher, Dr. Michael Mihayo speaks at the first-ever event to mark the World NTD Day in Bagamoyo, Tanzania today.
IHI hosts first-ever World NTD Day in Bagamoyo
Ifakara Health Institute today hosted the first-ever World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day with a colorful event held in Bagamoyo – Tanzania’s old capital located 80 kilometers north-west of the country’s main port and com…
Symposium chair and moderator, Harvard University professor Wafaie Fawzi hands the microphone to IHI CED, Dr. Honorati Masanja for the latter to respond to a question during the day-long Muhas-Harvard Symposium held in Dar es Salaam on January 22, 2020. Looking on is Ms. Sarah Somji from Muhas who was amongst the symposium speakers. PHOTO | SAIMON MSIGWA/IHIcoms
CED gives keynote speech at Muhas-Harvard forum
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) Chief Executive Director, Dr. Honorati Masanja, gave a keynote speech at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Muhas)-Harvard University Collaborative Symposium held in Dar es Salaam today. The tit…
Workshop facilitator Olukayode Odufuwa stresses a point when presenting on the opening day of the IHI-WHO joint workshop in Bagamoyo on December 4, 2019. PHOTO | JOSEPH MADATA/IHIcoms
IHI-WHO joint workshop kicks off in Bagamoyo
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and World Health Organization (WHO) host Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) and Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) Protocol Writing and Analysis Workshop in Bagamoyo from December 4-13, 2019.
Participants com…