It is with great pleasure that we learn that the Ifakara Health Research & Development Centre, now Ifakara Health Institute, has been awarded the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award together with the Kintampo Health Research Centre Ghana, the Manhica Health Research Centre, Mozambique, and the Malaria Research & Training Institute in Bamako Mali. The following link provides all information.

http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/ing/index.html

 

http://www.ihrdc.or.tz/

This is a wonderful moment to which many collaborators of STI and national as well as international partners have contributed through scientific collaboration and support. It is only through this broad and long-term partnership that the IHRDC team could develop to become a centre of excellence in science, training and application - all developments and achievments that now led to this award....Therefore, I sincerely and deeply congratulate Hassan and the IHRDC team as well as all the other three centres for this wonderful achievment and I thank all collaborators of STI and their national and international partners for all you did to assist these centres grow and develop to what they are now. It is a privilege for us at STI to continue the collaboration with IHRDC (now IHI) and to act as leading house for the IHRDC within the frame of the Swiss-Tanzanian bilateral collaboration (as part of the Swiss-S-African bilateral collaboration together with the University of Basel).
It is also a great to see that the other three African institutions have been awarded together with IHRDC, all institutions we collaborate with for a long time and from where African scientists have also been trained at STI. Again, my deepest thanks to all of you that have contributed and made this possible....
We shall find a moment to celebrate it and to remember that the late Prof. Rudolf Geigy, the founder of STI, has put us with great vision onto this track of combining research, training/capacity building and service provision/application of research for the benefit of those most in need. Finally we at STI should not forget that STI would not be what it is today without having had the partnership with the disease endemic areas, particularly in Africa and even more importantly Tanzania.

Prof. Marcel Tanner, Director of STI

 

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