Accordia is dedicated to building and supporting sustainable centers of excellence to transform the continent's healthcare systems from within. We believe that centers of excellence are an essential component of any successful strategy to build permanent capacity for health leadership and innovation in Africa.

Accordia involves the private and public sectors in moving these institutions forward.  Companies' investments in the institutions are able to decline over time as the organizations grow, find new sources of funding, and develop a patient constituency that covers their own healthcare costs, when able to.  The institutions' laboratory and clinical trial capabilities become world class, and pharmaceutical companies begin working with them to conduct research.

Accordia provides these sustainable African health institutions with essential resources and catalytic technical assistance throughout each stage of their development: Foundation, Architecture, Growth and Maturity, and Regional Expansion. The process begins when Accordia brings together individuals and organizations committed to addressing a pressing health need and willing to create or strengthen an academic medical institution to bring about substantive and systemic improvements.

Operations

• Improves institutions' financial and grants management processes
• Identifies best practices

Capacity Building

• Provides African academic medical centers with international expertise in infectious disease while expanding their abilities to combat these diseases in the future
• Starts up, builds, and emancipates centers of excellence in global health
• Provides upfront catalytic funding
• Strengthens systems and improves sustainability   or
• Strengthens institutions and improves their sustainability  
• Improves human resources for health
• Builds permanent local and regional health institutions
• Builds permanent capacity for health innovation and leadership in Africa
• Facilitates regional technical assistance
• Develops African medical leadership

Program Design

• Develops effective program protocol
• Designs innovative program design and offers rigorous outcomes evaluation  

Research

• Conducts operations research
• Develops infectious disease research study design
• Assesses M&E impact  
• Provides impact evaluation & surveillance
• Evaluates outcomes

Training

• Offers innovative competency-based training approaches
• Conducts medical education
• Strengthens skills of African scientists, doctors, and front-line healthcare workers
• Furthers the understanding and knowledge of infectious disease care, treatment, and prevention in Africa
• Translates medical advances in health research into the training of African clinicians and public health providers

Communications

• Convenes experts to find African healthcare solutions
• Coordinates public-private partnerships
• Uses information about medical advances in health research to influence policy and quality of care in Africa
• Provides expertise and guidance to shape future healthcare programs in Africa