"Healthy life is an outcome of sustainable development, as well as a powerful and undervalued means of achieving it. We need to see health both as a precious asset in itself, and as a means of stimulating economic growth and reducing poverty."

—Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

Technical Assistance Services

IME has assembled an international team of experts to plan, develop and implement effective programs to meet the critical health care needs of Africa, especially capacity development, which is our primary focus.

When appropriate, information and telecommunications technology can be employed to support long-distance clinical care, patient and professional health-related education, distance education, health promotion endeavors and health care administration.

Our areas of expertise include:

	IME Needs Assesment Team, Lusaka, Zambia (1996)

• Health systems planning, management and evaluation
• Delivery of health service, including via Telemedicine
• Public health program development and management
• Professional development and training
• Epidemiological and behavioral surveillance
• Community organizing
• Health education and curriculum design
• Public information, education and communications
• Health information management
• Acquisition and distribution of medicines
• Website development, collaboration and electronic documentatation

IME’s consulting team is comprised of individuals with an array of expertise relevant to specific health sector interventions. The team consists of clinical practitioners trained and experienced in the delivery of optimum medical care and related services. It also has senior public health physicians, health systems specialists, health economists, health planners, telehealth/telemedicine and ICT specialists, as well as information technology, health facilities and equipment specialists.

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Current and Proposed IME Projects

• Multi-National: Infectious disease diagnosis and treatment
  (Malaria, HIV-AIDS, Dengue, etc.)
• Multi-National: Mobile Health Clinics (In partnership with SwRI)
• Nigeria: Assistance to People Living With HIV-AIDS
• Nigeria: Rivers State Project
• South Africa: Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Program

More information on IME projects can be found on the main Where We Serve page.

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Conferences

Organizing and sponsoring conferences to facilitate the dissemination and exchange of relevant medical and public health information has played an important role in IME’s mission. IME's educational conferences have been held, in cooperation with the United States Department of Health & Human Services, the World Health Organization, the Medical Research Council of South Africa, the Georgetown University Medical Center, the African Telehealth Educational Project, and the National Medical Association of United States, and others, in Nairobi, Kenya; in Sun City and in Cape Town, South Africa.

More information on IME conferences can be found on the Education page.