The Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a health research organization with offices in Ifakara, Dar es Salaam, Ikwiriri, Bagamoyo, and Mtwara, Tanzania.[ The institute conducts health-related research in a variety of areas, including malaria and HIV/AIDS.[
History
Tower reads, “Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health, Ifakara”.
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. 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 Al Jazeera Lifelines documentary The End Game in 2014. Fredros Okumu gave a talk featuring the IHI the at TEDGlobal conference in 2017.
Contacts Ifakara Health Institute (IHI)
Bagamoyo
Email Us: bagamoyo@ihi.or.tz
Telephone Us: +255 232 440 065
Fax Us: +255 232 333 487
Visit Us: Bagamoyo Research and Training Centre
Bagamoyo District Hospital
Bagamoyo
P.O. Box 74
Bagamoyo
Dar es Salaam
Email Us: enquiries@ihi.or.tz
Telephone Us: +255 222 774 714
+255 222 774 756
Fax Us: +255 222 771 714
Visit Us: Ifakara Health Institute
Plot 463, Kiko Avenue Mikocheni
Dar es Salaam
P.O. Box 78 373
Dar es Salaam
Ifakara
Email Us: ifakara@ihi.or.tz
Telephone Us: +255 232 625 164
+255 232 625 377
Fax Us: +255 232 625 312
Visit Us: Off Mlabani Passage
Ifakara
P.O. Box 53
Ifakara
Rufiji
Email Us: rufiji@ihi.or.tz
Telephone:
Fax +255 232 010 007
+255 232 010 742
Visit Us: Rufiji Health Demographic Surveillance System
Folk Development College
Ikwiriri
P.O. Box 40
Ikwiriri