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​The Institute is a collaboration between three world-class medical institutions: The University of California San Francisco, the University of Cape Town, and Stellenbosch University ​



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Our vision

The Institute aims to increase access to timely, life-saving healthcare for all, through strategic research and technical advising for emergency care systems development.

The countries of sub-Saharan Africa face a disproportionate burden of acute injury and illness; despite this, few healthcare systems adopt an integrated approach to early recognition and stabilization of the acutely ill or injured patient. Evidence shows that such an approach substantially reduces the morbidity and mortality associated with a range of medical, surgical, paediatric, and obstetric conditions, and contributes towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Barriers to emergency care implementation in the region include limited documentation of the acute disease burden, a lack of consensus on regionally appropriate metrics to facilitate impact evaluation, an absence of locally relevant research, human resource capacity gaps, and a lack of coordinated advocacy for acute disease prevention and emergency care. 

Our mission

The Institute aims to:

Become the locus for emergency and acute care development in Africa
  • Establish a strong, sustainable position within existing networks and collaborations among universities, national and regional societies, government ministries, and funders
  • Develop capacity to respond to changing regional demand in a robust and flexible manner
  • Provide regional expertise to overcome logistical and cultural boundaries and facilitate improvement
  • Build the evidence base to support efficient and effective expansion of emergency care services.
  • Elaborate the growing need for emergency care in Africa and characterize the epidemiological transition in acute disease
  • Develop relevant frameworks for impact evaluation, including metrics and indicators for emergency care
  • Use targeted implementation science to identify high-yield context-relevant emergency care interventions
 
Build academic capacity by enabling growth
  • Expand current academic global health capacity, increasing research and publication outputs regionally
  • Integrate efforts of multiple disciplines, including (but not limited) to nursing, public health, primary health care, and family medicine
To learn more about IGEC, click on the brochure below!

​                      Our goals

Research 

              Training 

                             Outreach
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                                              Leadership
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