Founded on June 22, 1997 during the Fourth International Symposium on Maritime Health in Oslo (Norway), the International Maritime Health Association - IMHA - is a non-profit organization dedicated to foster scientific progress, improve the quality of the health of maritime workers worldwide ( seafarers, fishermen, offshore oil industry installation workers, divers etc.) and to create a forum where ideas, experiences, efforts, research and questions on maritime health may be exchanged for the benefit of the international maritime community. For that purpose, the Association will maintain intense and constant contact with the World Health Organization (WHO), International Maritime Organization (IMO) and International Labor Organization (ILO), as well as with other international institutions. It will strive to become a source of reference and consultation for governments, shipowners, trade unions and other organizations on matters of maritime health. IMHA is registered in Belgium as an international association by Royal Decree of 14/07/1998

Membership - IMHA is open to both individual or corporate membership. In this site, you may learn about the Association's bylaws and the membership application form.

Thanks to the steering group of doctors and the organisers of the 4th ISMH that contribute to the foundation of IMHA; the first IMHA board members and their institutions (Mediport, the Institutes of Hamburg, Turku , Gdynia ...), in the begining, and specially our IMHA members that implement our activities, they made that project a reality. We also have to thank ITF Seafarer's Trust for the start-up grant given to IMHA and other international and national organisations that collaborate with IMHA (WHO, ILO, IMO, ICSW, ACEP-CSMM, APB, SFMM ... and SEMM that is maintaining our website). We will do our best to promote seafarers' health.

Information

Telephone

+32-3-2250015 (Ms. Kris Lemmens, IMHA Secretariat)

Fax

+32-3-2252038

Mail address

IMHA: Italiëlei, 51 , 2000 Antwerpen (Belgium)

E-mail : IMHA Office IMHA@online.be

* General Information
* IMHA Newsletter
* Web Administration

Bank account KBC:

IBAN BE91 4166 1040 0176 416-6104008-83