The Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a health research organization with offices in

Ifakara Ifakara is a small rural town in the Kilombero District, Morogoro Region, south central Tanzania. It is the headquarters of the Kilombero District administration and the main trading centre for Kilombero and Ulanga districts. The town is located ...

, Dar es Salaam, Ikwiriri,

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, and

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. The institute conducts health-related research in a variety of areas, including

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and

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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

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Lifelines documentary ''The End Game'' in 2014. Fredros Okumu gave a talk featuring the IHI at the

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conference in 2017.

References

External links

Ifakara Health Institute Website

Ifakara Health Institute Facebook page

IHI Digital Library on EPrints.org

Ifakara Health Institute on SDH-Net

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