International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH)

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Investigator: E. Michael Reyes, MD, MPH
Sponsor: University of Washington (UW)

Location(s): Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Tanzania; Zimbabwe; Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Ivory Coast; China; India; Viet Nam; Guyana; Bahamas; Barbados; Haiti; Jamaica; Trinidad and Tobago

Description

The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) is a center in the University of Washington's Department of Global Health, in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco. I-TECH has offices in Africa, India, and Haiti, and projects in more than twenty countries. I-TECH's 700 worldwide staff work with local ministries of health, universities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), medical facilities, and other partners to support the development of a skilled health work force and well-organized national health delivery systems. Most of I-TECH's projects are organized to follow our Partnership Model, which describes a project cycle in which sustainability and transition to local ownership are key project outcomes.

I-TECH works primarily in the following technical areas:

  • Health system strengthening
  • Health workforce development
  • Operations research and evaluation
  • Prevention, care, and treatment of infectious diseases