According to the Regulation, the Ethiopian Public Health Institute is to serve as the technical and scientific arm of the Federal Ministry of Health with mandates to undertake four strategic missions:
- Conducting researches on priority health and nutrition issues for scientific evidence generation, dissemination, knowledge and technology transfer, management of public health emergencies
- Effective public health emergency management
- Establishing and maintaining quality laboratory system
- Training public health researchers and practitioners for best public health interventions. Through successfully accomplishing theses strategic missions, the institute envisions to exemplify a center of excellence in public health in Africa in the near future. To the aim of realizing the stated strategic missions and achieving its vision, the institute is currently being guided by its second five-year Strategic Management Plan (2015/2016 – 2019/2020) which was developed in line with Ethiopia’s Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP) and Growth and Transformation Plan II (GTP-II) in consideration of other relevant international commitments and initiatives for building a resilient and sustainable system for health towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal for good health and well-being (Goal 3) by 2030.
Founded in 1922 as a simple clinical laboratory unit of a hospital (Dr. Thomas Lambie’s hospital), the institute has undergone several evolutions and changes of mandates for over nine decades until it was re-established by the government in 2013 to serve as a national Public Health Institute based on its demonstrated capacity to effectively shoulder core functions of a public health institute.
Throughout its different stages of development, the institute has made invaluable contributions to the health and well-being of the Ethiopian population through promoting scientific biomedical and public health researches, advancing the development of the national clinical and public health laboratory systems and networks, and building reliable systems and core capacities to timely and effectively responds to public health emergencies.
The institute is known for maintaining its special status as a career home for public health researchers and scientists and is recognized as an authoritative national hub for knowledge and information on the major public health and nutrition problems affecting the country.
EPHI is working on Global Health security agenda in general and in specific on Anthrax, Brucellosis, Rabies, Highly pathogenic avian influenza, and anti-microbial resistance.
Contact:
Metchal Tilahun
Communication and Media Specialist
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