Evandro Chagas Institute Evandro Chagas Institute The Evandro Chagas Institute (Portuguese Instituto Evandro Chagas, or IEC) is a non-profit organization which promotes public health in Brazil named after Evandro Chagas. In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas. In 1938 this commission became the "Instituto de Pathologia Experimental do Norte", or Northern Institution for
The Institute of American and Talmudic Law The Institute of American and Talmudic Law The Institute of American and Talmudic Law (IAT Law) is a non-profit organization that provides accredited Continuing Legal Education (CLE) to attorneys and other professionals. The organization was founded in 2002 by rabbis Shlomo Yaffe, Noach Heber, and Joshua Metzger of "Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan", and Yisroel Schulman, founder and president of the New York Legal Assistance Group. IAT Law is an approved CLE/MCLE provider in New York, California, Florida, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois and Pennsylvania. IAT Law provides programs on a wide range of topics comparing American and Talmudic Law. It also