Ifakara Chief Executive Director, Dr. Honorati Masanja (right), poses for a photo with Ifakara's SPARC project lead, Dr. Fatuma Manzi (2nd left) , and other participants on the sidelines of the SPARC networking meeting in Arusha this week. PHOTO | COURTESY/Mary Irema.
ENGAGEMENT: Ifakara, 10 African partners discuss “strategic health purchasing”
Ifakara health Institute alongside ten other African institutes which form the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre (SPARC) participated in a meeting to discuss the SPARC partnership framework and principles to…
MUST Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Godliving Mtui (left), receives one of the equipment for new-borns to simbolize the official hand over of a skills-lab of new-born equipment for bio-medical engineers. The event was held at the MUST campus in Mbeya on Friday, July 23rd, 2022. PHOTO | COURTESY/Donat Shamba
EMPOWERMENT: NEST360 program hands-over new-born equipment to Mbeya university
The NEST360 program which is implemented in Tanzania by Ifakara Health Institute and partners handed over to the Mbeya University of Science and Technology (MUST) new-born equipment for training biomedical engineers i…
Ifakara cluster organizations representatives pose for a group photo inside their exhibition booth at the JNICC in Dar es Salaam. The Ifakara Health Institute team was led by the Lab Manager Faraji Abilahi (2nd-right). PHOTOS | IFAKARA_Coms/Courtesy of Silma Swaibu
FORUM: Ifakara showcases research work at AMECEA as President Samia addresses assembly
Ifakara Health Institute joined other partners forming the Ifakara Cluster Organizations at the 20th AMECEA plenary assembly which is taking place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for slightly over a week – from 8th t…
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TALK: Swiss scholar lecture on health research "decolonization" June 16, 2022 at 11am EAT
Swiss medical biologist, Prof. Marcel Tanner, will give a talk entitled, "Decolonizing Health Research: The Perspective of Low-Income Countries" from Bagamoyo, Tanzania on Thursday, the 16th of June 2022 fro…
A participant contributes to the discussions. PHOTOS | COURTESY/Silma Swaibu
FORUM: NEST360 country program teams hold global meeting in Dar
Ifakara Health Institute’s NEST360 program alongside NEST360 country teams from Malawi, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, UK and US are holding a global meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from June 14 to 16, 2022…
Ifakara Health Institute Chief Executive Director Dr. Honorati Masanja (center) poses for a group photo with the visiting BMGF team and their IFAKARA hosts at the Kingani Clinical Trials Facility during day one of the tour in Bagamoyo on June 13, 2022. PHOTOS | IFAKARA/Coms.
VISIT: Ifakara, Gates team discuss future partnerships in malaria vaccine research
Ifakara Health Institute hosts a team of officials from the US-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in Bagamoyo from June 13 to 15, 2022. The aim of the trip is for BMGF and IFAKARA to discuss potential part…
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SYMPOSIUM: Stakeholder engagement on medical devices and healthcare innovations
The Product Development Partnership (PDP) forum of the Ifakara Health Institute on June 10,2022 hosted a day-long innovation symposium on medical devices and healthcare technologies. The event was held at the Commissi…
Member of the tropEd network pose for a group photo with Ifakara Chief Executive Director, Dr. Honorati Masanja (center) and their colleagues who attended the forum virtually from across the globe. This was on June 9th 2022 at the Training Center in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. PHOTO | IFAKARA/Coms
FORUM: Global health education network holds general assembly at Ifakara center
Members of “tropEd” - a network of institutions for higher education in international health – conducted their General Assembly (GA) meeting from June 9-to 11, 2022 for the first time in Tanzania &nd…
POETIC project Principal Investigator Dr. Tim Baker speaks at the meeting held in Dar es Salaam early this week. PHOTO | IFAKARA/Coms
DISSEMINATION: Project on care for critically ill patients shares research findings
After two years of extensive research which aimed to improve the care of critically ill patients, Ifakara Health Institute and partners held a dissemination meeting with stakeholders in Dar es Salaam to discuss the fi…
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RESEARCH: Ifakara, partners kick off COVID-19 study in Zanzibar
A new COVID-19 study has been launched in Zanzibar. The scientific surveillance assessment, scheduled to last 18 months, is entitled “Population-based age-stratified seroepidemiological investigation for coronav…