Uganda
Supporting Our Flagship Center of Excellence
The mission of the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University is to build capacity of integrated and sustainable health systems in Africa for the delivery of high quality care and prevention services– with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases–through capacity building, research, and comprehensive health models.
A decade ago, Accordia Global Health Foundation convened a group of committed partners to make a transformative investment in African healthcare. These partners envisioned a center of excellence in infectious diseases located in Africa, enabling continuous innovation and responsiveness to the most pressing regional health concerns. The center would function at the intersection of training, research, and advanced clinical care to promote the highest quality of standards of infectious disease care. It would be established in a world-class setting to enable international standards of research and to retain Africa’s best and brightest.
That vision led to the creation of the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University (IDI) in Kampala, Uganda. Today, IDI is an internationally recognized center for health research, training, and care and is an integral part of the Ugandan health system. This center of excellence is already having the ripple effect we envisioned: improving the healthcare system throughout Uganda and across the region.
Read more about IDI's history and accomplishments in our Transformative Investments report.
IDI serves as our model for a sustainable, locally owned, regional center of excellence that is transforming the quality of care across the continent. Accordia now contributes to IDI’s ongoing development through targeted technical assistance, program development consultation, and fundraising support.
Learn more about Accordia’s programs implemented with IDI:
