Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Strengthening Health Systems
IMA's programs include:
Democratic Republic of Congo - strengthening health systems and improving health outcomes in primary health care, HIV/AIDS, malaria, neglected tropical diseases (NTD) and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and treatment services.
Tanzania - health projects in the areas of NTDs, HIV/AIDS, malaria, capacity building of government and faith-based health care facilities and communities, cancer, and health management information systems/geographic information systems (HMIS/GIS).
South Sudan - development of the health care system in South Sudan. IMA works with South Sudan’s government, international and national partners, and other health organizations to strengthen the health system’s capacity to deliver high quality essential health care services, implement community-based HIV/AIDS prevention interventions, and improve maternal, neonatal, and child health outcomes. IMA currently also provides emergency support for improved access to essential primary health care and malaria services.
Haiti - mass drug distribution programs for neglected tropical diseases.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
InterAction - Member 2018
External reviews

Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of members from priority population attending training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is the number of members from priority population that attended training in our projects located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Haiti, and Indonesia.
Number of participants attending course/session/workshop
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is the number of participants that attended a course/session/workshop in our program in Indonesia.
Number of participants counseled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is the number of participants counseled in our programs in Kenya and Indonesia.
Number of individuals to whom medicines were distributed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is the number of individual we distributed medicines to in our projects located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Kenya.
Number of pregnant women tested for HIV
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is the number of pregnant women we tested for HIV in our projects in South Sudan and Kenya.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
IMA's vision is health, healing and well-being for all. We recognize that all people are children of God and deserve access to services that protect and promote their health and dignity. We respect and work with other faiths and many secular groups who share our aim to create a more just and sustainable world. We do not proselytize.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
IMA World Health aims to achieve health, healing and well-being for all through a four-part strategy.
Health Systems Strengthening
IMA builds integrated, holistic and sustainable health systems that increase access to quality health care, with an emphasis on vulnerable people.
Partnerships
IMA collaborates with local, national and international partners, especially faith-based networks and organizations, to join and leverage assets, resources, knowledge and voices.
Technical Excellence
IMA designs and implements innovative and effective technical approaches that demonstrate long-term, measurable improvements and impact on individual and community health.
Organizational Health
IMA invests in developing people, partners, continual learning and systems to maximize organizational impact on health care and the systems to sustain those improvements.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
IMA World Health began as Interchurch Medical Assistance in 1960. Our nearly 60 year history is based heavily in partnership: with member agencies, with donors, with the people we serve. Everything IMA does, it does in partnership and builds on decades of experience.
Currently, we have extensive presence in six countries where we live out our mandate to bring health, healing and well-being to the world's most vulnerable. Our staff in Haiti, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Indonesia feature public health experts who bring the best in science and practice to national and local partners. Our connections with ministries of health, district medical staff and community service organizations and communities of faith ensure we serve the most vulnerable, sustainably. We align our work with national plans and priorities and work to build local capacity that will thrive long after we are gone.
Our aim is to ensure access to quality care for all, especially the most vulnerable. We respect and work with all sorts of faiths and many secular groups who share our aim to create a more just and sustainable world.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
IMA World Health programs touched more than 46 million people in the last year, through clinic visits, trainings, awareness campaigns and other programming. Our work has supported significant gains in preventing HIV and AIDS and providing access to treatment, reducing malarial infections and neglected tropical diseases, improving sanitation and hygiene practices and ensuring pregnant women and caregivers of infants and young children have knowledge about and access to proper nutrition.
Sample achievements during our last fiscal year include 14 million treatments for neglected tropical disease in Tanzania and 5.1 million in Haiti; 8.3 million people with improved health care in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and 1.8 million visits to outpatient clinics in the Republic of South Sudan.
As we look to do our part to contribute to the new Sustainable Development Goals through new and expanded efforts, we will continue to strengthen health systems, improve our partnerships, refine our technical acumen and ensure IMA World Health is a soundly-managed organization.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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IMA World Health
Board of directorsas of 06/14/2021
Jean Hanson
Retired partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Sonya Evelyn
Adventist Development & Relief Agency
Abagail Nelson
Episcopal Relief & Development
Philip Atkins-Pattenson
Sheppard Mullin, LLP
Dr. William Craft
Concordia College
Hilda Arellano
Retired from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Dr. Kathi Tunheim
Gustavus Adolphus College
Muna Bhanji
Former senior executive with Merck
Marcelino Ford-Livene
Intel Capital
Kenneth Jones II
MacArthur Foundation
The Rev. Dr. David Lose
Senior Pastor, Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minn.
Tamron Keith
Presbyterian World Mission
Dr. Kurt Newman
Children's National Hospital
Dr. Cathy Petti
MoDx
The Rev. Tim Runtsch
Senior Pastor, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Fort Collins, CO
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Board composition
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