Partners
South African Medical Research Council | www.mrc.ac.za
The South African Medical Research Council is a state medical research organisation, whose mission is to improve the nation’s health status and quality of life through relevant and excellent health research aimed at promoting equity and development.
University of Kwa-Zulul Natal School of Computer Science | www.cs.ukzn.ac.za
The school of Computer Science at UKZN has a wide variety of research interests including Image Processing, Bioinformatics, Game programing, Opensource Software and Internet Technologies.
The OASIS Network
Jembi is a core member of the OASIS “network of networks” that supports locally-owned, relevant and sustainable research to improve health equity and health outcomes in over ten African countries. The main partners of our network are:
Millennium Villages Project | www.millenniumvillages.org
Millennium Promise is the leading international non-profit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Millennium Promise works with national governments, Columbia University and the United Nations Development Programme, for the Millennium Villages Project implementing integrated social and business development services for more than 500,000 people in rural communities across 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Partners in Health | www.pih.org
PIH’s work as a nonprofit focusing on delivery of quality health care in poor communities benefits from longstanding ties to Harvard Medical School and one of its teaching hospitals, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as a more recent affiliation with the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. These alliances enable PIH to translate our lived experience serving the destitute sick into clinical and operational research, education and training paradigms, and programs and policies that reduce health disparities and improve treatment outcomes. Based in Boston, U.S.A, Partners in Health works on projects in Lesotho, Malawi,Rwanda, Haiti,Russia, Kazakhstan and Peru.
D-Tree International | www.dtree.org
D-Tree International aims to improving the quality of healthcare available to the world’s poor by using innovative technology to provide accurate and effective point-of-care diagnosis and treatment. The vision of D-tree International is a world in which every person has access to high quality health care. D-Tree is based in the U.S.A. with an office in Tanzania.
We also collaborate closely with the following organisations:
InSTEDD | www.instedd.org
Founded in 2006 in California’s Silicon Valley with seed funding from Google.org and the Rockefeller Foundation, InSTEDD’s vision is a world where communities everywhere design and use technology to continuously improve their health, safety and development. InSTEDD has been working around the world to implement this vision, including the launch of innovation laboratories or “iLabs” in Southeast Asia and Latin America, which are fostering collaborative engineering practices and entrepreneurial innovation in those regions. InSTEDD aims to design and use open source technology tools to help partners enhance collaboration and improve information flow and knowledge sharing to better deliver critical services to vulnerable populations, with long term sustainability in mind.
Regenstrief Institute | www.regenstrief.org
An internationally respected informatics and healthcare research organization, the Regenstrief Institute is recognized for its role in improving quality of care, increasing efficiency of healthcare delivery, preventing medical errors and enhancing patient safety. Established in 1969 by philanthropist Sam Regenstrief on the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis campus, the Institute is supported by the Regenstrief Foundation and closely affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indiana.
University of California, San Francisco UCSF | www.ucsf.edu
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. The result is ground-breaking life sciences research and world-class health care that support UCSF’s mission: advancing health worldwide. UCSF serves the local, regional and global communities by forming strategic alliances and developing strong partnerships to improve health, enhance opportunities for education and foster research collaborations around the world.
The Vanderbilt University | www.vanderbilt.edu
The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health is committed to advancing health and development in resource-limited regions. With projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean,their approach is grounded in research, training, and service that is appropriate to the developing world. It is in a perfect position to provide an infusion of education and support to communities in dozens of the poorest countries in the world.
