Tanzanian health research organization
Ifakara Health Institute Ifakara Health Institute logo
Established 1956 Founder Rudolf Geigy Key people
Martin Mfikwa, Chief Operating Officer Fredros Okumu , Director of ScienceHonorati Masanja, Chief Executive Director Staff
nearly 600 (in 2009)[1] Website www.ihi.or.tz Formerly called
Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre
The Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a health research organization with offices in Ifakara , Dar es Salaam , Ikwiriri , Bagamoyo , and Mtwara , Tanzania .[2] [3] The institute conducts health-related research in a variety of areas, including malaria and HIV/AIDS .[4]
History
Tower at the Ifakara Health Institute campus in Ifakara, Tanzania. A field laboratory of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute was founded in Ifakara in 1956 by Rudolf Geigy .[1] From 1981-1984, it was led by Marcel Tanner.[5] 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.[6]
The Ifakara Health Institute was featured in the Al Jazeera Lifelines documentary The End Game in 2014.[7] Fredros Okumu gave a talk featuring the IHI at the TEDGlobal conference in 2017.[8]
Laureates of the Prince or Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
1981: José López Portillo
1982: Enrique V. Iglesias
1983: Belisario Betancur
1984: Contadora group
1985: Raúl Alfonsín
1986: University of Salamanca and University of Coimbra
1987: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
1988: Óscar Arias
1989: Jacques Delors and Mikhail Gorbachev
1990: Hans-Dietrich Genscher
1991: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1992: Frederik W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
1993: United Nations Blue Berets stationed in Ex-Yugoslavia
1994: Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat
1995: Mário Soares
1996: Helmut Kohl
1997: Government of Guatemala and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
1998: Emma Bonino , Olayinka Koso-Thomas , Graça Machel , Fatiha Boudiaf , Rigoberta Menchú , Fatana Ishaq Gailani, and Somaly Mam
1999: Pedro Duque , John Glenn , Chiaki Mukai , and Valeri Polyakov
2000: Fernando Henrique Cardoso
2001: International Space Station
2002: The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
2003: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
2004: The European Union's Erasmus Programme
2005: Simone Veil
2006: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2007: Al Gore
2008: Manhiça Centre of Health Research (Mozambique), Ifakara Health Institute (Tanzania), Malaria Research and Training Centre (Mali), and Kintampo Health Research Centre (Ghana)
2009: World Health Organization
2010: The Transplantation Society and the Spanish National Transplant Organization
2011: Bill Drayton
2012: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
2013: Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
2014: Fulbright Program
Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
Authority control databases