What We Do

Global Health Security, One Health & Public Health Surveillance

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the interconnectedness of worldwide human and animal populations and the threat of emerging diseases and rapid environmental change that require new and integrated approaches. Partnering with a broad consortium of stakeholders—including governments, healthcare workers, and civil society groups—I-TECH works to scale emerging disease threat prevention and response efforts to improve global health security across South America, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. Global Health Security I-TECH’s Global Health Security programs focus on increasing resilience of health systems, reducing the likelihood of disease outbreaks; improving the efficiency and accuracy of the detection of communicable diseases; ...
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Health Leadership and Management

I-TECH’s leadership and management initiative (LMI) activities are built upon the premise that good leadership and management skills can be learned, and must be taught alongside other technical competencies as essential components of health systems strengthening. Visit our Everyday Leadership page for a collection of tools designed to support global health leaders and managers, including videos and other training resources ...
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Health Systems Strengthening

I-TECH works to strengthen the following systems that support the provision of high-quality, sustainable prevention, care, and treatment of infectious diseases ...
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Health Workforce Development

The effective diagnosis, care, and treatment of infectious diseases require a skilled and motivated health care workforce, and sustainable systems to educate and train those workers. I-TECH uses a systemic approach to build the skills and knowledge of, and foster attitude changes in, health care staff and those who train and educate them ...
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Implementation Science and Evaluation

I-TECH specializes in developing appropriate research designs and methods for application in resource-limited settings, to get answers to research questions in real time. A university-based program, I-TECH draws from experts in qualitative and quantitative methods in a wide range of theoretical and practical disciplines, including health economics, anthropology, health sciences, medicine, and education. I-TECH's monitoring and evaluation staff work to ensure the efficacy of health care training sessions and programs by applying their expertise in cost analysis, data collection, and measurement to rigorous evaluations of these interventions. I-TECH conducts operations research to inform every phase of programming, starting with assessments ...
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Prevention, Care, and Treatment of Diseases

I-TECH has a wealth of experience and expertise in planning, developing, and implementing projects focused on prevention, care, and treatment of infectious diseases, particularly HIV and opportunistic co-infections such as tuberculosis (TB) and sexually transmitted infections ...
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