The National Institutes of Health, Islamabad (NIH) ( ur, ), is a Pakistani research institute located in

Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital T ...

, Pakistan. The institute is an

autonomous In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy, from , ''autonomos'', from αὐτο- ''auto-'' "self" and νόμος ''nomos'', "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who gives oneself one's ow ...

body of

Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination ( ur, ; abbreviated as MoNHSRC) is a cabinet level ministry of the government of Pakistan with responsibility for national public health. Organization Healthcare was transfer ...

, mainly responsible for biomedical and health related

research Research is "creativity, creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular att ...

along with vaccine manufacturing.COVID-19 Laboratory Capacity, National Institute of Health, Islamabad
COVID.gov.pk website, Published 22 February 2021, Retrieved 30 April 2021

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External links

NIH official websiteNational Control Laboratory for Biologicals (NCLB) official websiteDrug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) official website
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