The International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) is an international umbrella organization of national public health institutes (NPHIs), public health government agencies working to improve national disease prevention and response. IANPHI is made up of 100+ members, located in more than 90 countries. An important goal of IANPHI is to improve health outcomes by strengthening NPHIs or supporting countries in creating new NPHIs. As of 2021 IANPHI’s president is professor

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, former chief executive of

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. The IANPHI Secretariat is based at Santé Publique France, and the US Office is located at the

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Global Health Institute in

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. The IANPHI Foundation is located in

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at the

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. Coordinated by Secretary General Jean Claude Desenclos, the IANPHI team is responsible for member relations and programs, policy, communications and NPHI development projects, and the IANPHI annual meeting. At its inception (2002-2006), IANPHI received seed funds from the

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and a one-year planning grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). BMGF subsequently awarded multi-year funds for IANPHI's development and to support projects to build NPHIs in low- and middle-income countries. Resources have since been contributed e.g. by the

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(CDC) A recent role for IANPHI has been to work with the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project.

The National Public Health Institute model

The

national public health institutes National public health institutes (NPHIs) are science-based governmental organizations that serve as a focal point for a country's public health efforts, as well as a critical component of global disease prevention and response systems. Among the b ...

(NPHI) model, exemplified by the U.S.

(CDC),

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC; ) is an institution directly under the National Health Commission, based in Changping District, Beijing, China. Established in 1983, it works to protect public health and safety ...

(China CDC),

Public Health Agency of Canada The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC; french: Agence de la santé publique du Canada, ASPC) is an agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible for public health, emergency preparedness and response, and infectious and chronic diseas ...

(PHAC), Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública of Mexico (INSP Mexico),

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of Brazil (FIOCRUZ Brazil) and others, is an effective and cost-efficient way to systematically develop and sustain national public health systems. NPHIs have been major contributors to reductions in morbidity and mortality from

infectious An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dise ...

and noncommunicable conditions. Many, including the U.S. CDC and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (Finland), have developed over several decades, while others, including NPHIs in

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...

and

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

, were created following threats such as

Ebola Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after becom ...

and

SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), the first identified strain of the SARS coronavirus species, ''sever ...

, in recognition that a coordinated system with a specialized institution is needed to effectively respond to disease threats. NPHIs usually lead national efforts for disease surveillance and outbreak investigation (to monitor population health trends and detect and resolve outbreaks), laboratory services (to identify and confirm disease threats), health programs (including recommendations for immunizations and maternal and child health initiatives), and public health workforce development and research (including new treatments and technologies). NPHIs are designed to give governments the ability to assess and address major acute and long-term disease threats in a country using scientific, evidence-based policies and strategies, as well as create a career home for public health researchers and scientists, thereby fostering the evidence-based approaches necessary to ensure that government policies are based on scientific evidence rather than politics.

History and activities

In 2002, the directors of nearly 30 NPHIs met in

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to share best practices and discuss opportunities for collaboration. In 2004, the group reconvened in Helsinki and declared its intention to forge an alliance. IANPHI was formally launched at the first General Assembly in Brazil in January 2006, with 39 founding members and a one-year grant from the Gates Foundation. Under a subsequent five-year grant from the Gates Foundation awarded in late 2006, the membership has expanded to 100 institutes in 88 countries around the world. IANPHI's activities fall into three areas: * Projects (targeting investments to create or strengthen NPHIs in low-resource countries) * Policy (developing a framework, tools and policy papers for public

health system strengthening Health systems strengthening (also health system strengthening, abbreviated HSS) is a term used in global health that roughly means to improve the health care system of a country. Within this general definition, it can mean increasing funding for h ...

) * Leadership development (creating an international community of NPHI directors)

Peer-to-Peer Partnerships

One of IANPHI's distinctive features and strengths is a peer-assistance approach that facilitates sharing of expertise and experience among member NPHIs. The model clearly benefits the recipient NPHI by identifying strategies to address priority needs and raising standards of performance for organizing and conducting public health functions. But it rewards the contributing institute as well – by sharing skills and assets to benefit others while also linking resources and solutions to address regional and global health threats and opportunities. For the network of IANPHI members, the model provides unique opportunities for NPHIs to link with others that are geographically or linguistically similar or are struggling with similar technical or programmatic issues, such as information system development or pandemic preparedness. This collaborative approach also provides a platform for developing research or programs to address shared issues, whether laboratory safety or avian influenza, tobacco use or injury. Recent peer-to-peer partnerships include:
Peru and Bolivia - INLASA Partnership
* Norway and Malawi

an

* Morocco and Togo - Strengthening Information Systems

* France and Togo/Côte d'Ivoire - Influencing Policy through Publication

List of IANPHI members

# Afghanistan
Afghan Public Health Institute
# Albania
Public Health Institute
# Algeria: Institut National de Santé Publique (INSP) # Angola: National Institute of Public Health # Argentina
National Laboratories and Health Institutes Administration (ANLIS)
# Armenia
National Center for Disease Control
# Armenia
Armenian National Institute of Health
# Austria: Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG) # Bangladesh
Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control & Research - IEDCR
# Belgium:

Sciensano Sciensano is a research institute and the national public health institute of Belgium. It is a so-called federal scientific institution that operates under the authority of the federal minister of Public Health and the federal minister of Agricul ...

# Bolivia: Health Laboratories National Institute (INLASA) # Brazil:

- FIOCRUZ # Bulgaria: National Center of Public Health and Analyses (NCPHA) # Burkina Faso: Institut National de Sante Publique (INSP) # Burundi
National Institute of Public Health
# Cabo Verde: Instituto Nacional de Saúde Pública (INSP) # Cambodia
National Institute of Public Health
# Cameroon: Direction de la Lutte Contre la Maladie, les Epidemies, et les Pandemies (DLM) # Canada:

# Canada: Institut national de santé publique du Quebec # China:

# China
Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong
# Colombia
National Institute of Public Health
# Costa Rica
National Institute for Research on Nutrition and Health
# Côte d'Ivoire
National Institute of Public Health
# Croatia:

Croatian Institute for Public Health Croatian Institute of Public Health ( hr, Hrvatski zavod za javno zdravstvo, HZJZ) is the national institute of public health of Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anth ...

# Cuba
Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri"
# Czech Republic
National Institute of Public Health
# Denmark: Statens Institut for Folkesundhed # Denmark: Statens Serum Institut (SSI) # Ecuador
National Institute of Public Health Research
# El Salvador: National Institute of Public Health # Estonia
National Institute for Health and Development
# Ethiopia
Ethiopian Public Health Institute
# Finland: National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) # France: Santé publique France # Georgia
Georgia National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC)
# Germany:

Robert Koch Institute The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is a German federal government agency and research institute responsible for disease control and prevention. It is located in Berlin and Wernigerode. As an upper federal agency, it is subordinate to the Federal ...

# Germany: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) # Ghana
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
# Ghana:

Ghana Health Service The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is a Ghanaian government body established in 1996 as part of the Health Sector Reform of Ghana. The Health Service is under the Ministry of Health. The Health service primarily administrates the health services prov ...

# Guatemala: Centro Nacional de Ciencias de la Salud (CNCS) # Guinea: Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire (ANSS) # Guinea: National Institute of Public Health Guinea (Guinea NPHI) # Guinea Bissau: National Institute of Public Health (INASA) # India
National Centre for Disease Control
# Iran Islamic Republic: Institute of Public Health Research # Ireland
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland
# Israel: Israel Center for Disease Control # Italy
National Institute of Health
# Jordan: Jordan Ministry of Health # Kazakhstan: National Center for Public Healthcare # Kenya:

Kenya Medical Research Institute ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

(KEMRI) # Kenya: Kenya National Public Health Institute # Liberia: National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) # Libya
Libya National Centre for Disease Control
# Macedonia FYR: Institute for Public Health of the R. Macedonia # Madagascar: Ministère de la santé publique # Malawi
Public Health Institute of Malawi
# Mexico
National Institute of Public Health
# Moldova
National Center of Public Health
# Mongolia
National Center for Public Health
# Morocco
Pasteur Institute of Morocco
# Morocco
National Institute of Hygiene
# Morocco: Direction of Epidemiology and Disease Control # Mozambique

# Myanmar
National Health Laboratory
# Myanmar
Ministry of Health and Sports
# Nepal: School of Public Health and Community Medicine B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences # Netherlands:

Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment ( nl, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu or simply RIVM) is a Dutch research institute that is an independent agency of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. RIVM perfo ...

# Nigeria:

Nigerian Institute of Medical Research The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Yaba, Lagos state, Nigeria is a medical research institute established by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the research institute establishment act of 1977, to promote National health a ...

(NIMR) # Nigeria
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
# Nigeria: National Primary Health Care Development Agency # Norway:

Norwegian Institute of Public Health The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) (Norwegian: ''Folkehelseinstituttet''; FHI) is a Norwegian government agency and research institute, and is Norway's national public health institute. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Health and ...

# Pakistan
Pakistan National Institute of Health
# Palestine
Palestinian National Institute of Public Health
# Panama: Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies # Papua New Guinea: National Department of Health # Peru : Peruvian National Institute of Health # Poland
National Institute of Public Health
# Portugal
Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
# Portugal
National Institute of Health INSA
# Republic of Korea
Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
# Russia
Federation: National Research Center for Preventive Medicine
# Rwanda
Institute of HIV/AIDS, Diseases Prevention and Control
# Saudi Arabia: Centers for Disease Control # Serbia
Institute of Public Health of Serbia
# Sierra Leone: Ministry of Health & Sanitation # Slovenia: National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) # Somalia: National Institute of Health (NIH) # South Africa:

National Institute for Communicable Diseases The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is the national public health institute of South Africa, providing reference to microbiology, virology, epidemiology, surveillance and public health research to support the government's re ...

(NICD) # Spain:

Carlos III Health Institute The Carlos III Health Institute ( es, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, links=no; ISCIII) is a Spanish public health research institute, legally constituted as a public research agency (), a type of quasi-autonomous entity under Spanish law. The ISCII ...

(ISCIII, Instituto de Salud Carlos III) # Sudan: National Public Health Institute # Sweden:

Public Health Agency of Sweden The Public Health Agency of Sweden ( sv, Folkhälsomyndigheten, abbreviated ''Fohm'') is a Swedish government agency with national responsibility for public health. It falls under the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs and works to promote ...

# Syria: Center for Strategic Health Studies # Tanzania
National Institute for Medical Research - NIMR
# Thailand: National Institute of Health # Timor Leste: National Institute of Public Health # Togo
National Institute of Hygiene
# Tunisia
National Institute of Health
# Turkey
Refik Saydam Hygiene Center
# Uganda
Uganda Virus Research Institute UVRI
# Uganda: Uganda National Institute of Public Health # Ukraine
Public Health Center of Ukraine
# United Kingdom England: Public Health England (PHE) # United Kingdom Wales: Public Health Wales # United States:

# Vietnam
National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology - NIHE
# Zambia: Zambian National Public Health Institute # Zimbabwe: National Public Health Institute

Organization

IANPHI is managed by an executive board and secretariat. Executive board members consider and vote on issues of strategic direction and policy and on project and funding recommendations. There are currently 14 active members on the executive board: #

- IANPHI President, Former Chief Executive, Public Health England, United Kingdom # Meerjady Sabrina Flora - IANPHI Vice President, Former Director General, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research and National Influenza Center, Bangladesh # André van der Zande - Immediate Past President, IANPHI, Former Director General, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands # Martha Lucia Ospina - Director, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Colombia # George F. Gao - Director, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China # Ebba Abate - Director, Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Ethiopia # Lothar H. Wieler - President, Robert Koch Institute, Germany # Juan Rivera Dommarco - Director, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico # Camilla Stoltenberg - Director General, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway # Akhmetov Valikhan Isaevich - Former Director, National Centre for Public Healthcare, Kazakhstan # Abdullah Algwizani - Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Centers for Disease Control, Saudi Arabia # Aamer Ikram - Executive Director, National Institute of Health, Pakistan # Sabin Nsanzimana - Director General, Rwanda Biomedical Center, Rwanda # Markku Tervahauta - Director General, Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare, Finland Emeritus Members # Igbal Abukarig - Director, Public Health Institute, Sudan # Paulo Buss - Former President, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/FIOCRUZ, Brazil # Reinhard Burger - President, Robert Koch Institute, Germany # David Butler Jones - Director, Public Health Agency of Canada # Cesar Cabezas - Director, National Institute of Health, Peru # L. S. Chauhan - Director, National Centre for Disease Control, India # Rajae El Aouad - Former Director, National Institute of Hygiene, Morocco # Naima El Mdaghri - Director General, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Morocco # Mohammed Hassar - Former Director, Institute Pasteur du Maroc, Morocco # Mauricio Hernández-Avila - IANPHI Immediate Past President, Former Director, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico # Oni Idigbe - Former Director General & Director of Research, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria # Ilesh Jani - Director General, National Institute of Health, Mozambique # Amha Kebede - Director, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia # Jeffrey Koplan, IANPHI Senior Advisor, Vice President for Global Health, Emory University, USA # Justin McCracken - Former Chief Executive, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom # Tsehaynesh Messele - Former Director General, Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Ethiopia # Pekka Puska - Former IANPHI President, Former Director General, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland # Mahmudur Rahman - Director, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Research, Bangladesh # Amabelia Rodrigues - Former President, National Institute of Public Health, Guinea Bissau # Mario Henry Rodriguez - Former General Director, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico # Pathom Sawanpanyalert - Former Director General, National Institute of Health #

Barry Schoub Barry Schoub is a South African medical virologist known for his work in medical virology research. At the age of 33 he became the first Professor and Head of the Department of Virology at University of the Witwatersrand. He was the founding Direct ...

- Former Executive Director, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, South Africa # Marc Sprenger - Director, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Netherlands # Geir Stene-Larsen - Director General, Norwegian Institute of Public Health # Gregory Taylor - Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada # Jaroslav Volf - Former Director, National Institute of Public Health, Czech Republic # Yu Wang - Director-General, Centers for Disease Control, China # Jane Wilde - Former Chief Executive, Institute of Public Health in Ireland The IANPHI Secretariat is based at th
Santé Publique France
and the US Office is located at the

Global Health Institute in

IANPHI long-term projects

IANPHI's long-term projects help public health systems in low-resource countries respond to modern public health challenges, improve outcomes, and support healthy populations and strong economies. These intensive multi-year engagements develop and strengthen national public health institutes (NPHIs), moving them forward on a continuum from those least developed to those with a comprehensive and coordinated scope of public health responsibilities. Currently, IANPHI has ongoing long-term projects in

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

, and

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

References

External links

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