INTREC Partner Organisations

Who is in the INTREC consortium?

INTREC comprises six institutional partners. These include:

  •  Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Sweden (Project Coordinator). The Centre was set up in 2007 through a grant from FAS (the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research), with an overall mission to engage with and address a global agenda on health research and practice, and to facilitate collaboration between and within the North and South. http://www.globalhealthresearch.net/ 
  • INDEPTH: An International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health, Accra, Ghana. INDEPTH is a global network of members who conduct longitudinal health and demographic evaluation of populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). INDEPTH aims to strengthen global capacity for Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS), and to mount multi-site research to guide health priorities and policies in LMICs, based on up-to-date scientific evidence. http://www.indepth-network.org/
  • Center for Health Service Management, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. The Center was established in 1998. CHSM conducts research, consultation, networking, advocacy and dissemination, and training based on the four main pillars: service provision, regulation, health financing, and human resource development. This framework is applied in conducting activities for both public and private service provider institutions, bureaucratic/government organizations, building collaboration with various universities and international organizations, and organizing seminar, training, research & dissemination and workshop in health service management. http://chsm.fk.ugm.ac.id/
  • The Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Germany. The Institute of Public Health was founded in 1962 and has steadily grown since. It currently has a staff of about 60. The Institute’s mission is to contribute to the improvement of health through research, teaching and direct services (patient care, consulting) in developing countries and at home. http://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/Institute-of-Public-Health.5358.0....
  • Centre for Social Science and Global Health, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Centre was founded in 2009 (originally as the Centre for Global Health and Inequality). It builds on a long tradition of multidisciplinary social science research on health and illness in the faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. The Centre includes anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and behavioural scientists who have a strong track record in studying the sociocultural, political and historical factors that influence the health and illness of individuals as well as the functioning of health systems. http://www.ssgh.uva.nl/ssgh/home.cfm
  • Harvard Centre for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (Pop Center) is dedicated to understanding the dynamic interplay between global population health, demographic changes and the social and physical environment. We bring together scientists from across schools at Harvard and globally to make exciting advances in population research. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/