National Public Health Institutes: Stories

Trainer Bob Jones debriefing his group about lab etiquette at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute in Addis Ababa during February 2016. — Trainer Bob Jones leads a session on lab etiquette at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute in Addis Ababa (February 2016).

Learn more about NPHI work and accomplishments through our stories.

Stories

Colombia’s National Institute of Health Celebrates 100 Years, Opens Public Health Emergency Operations Center

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (fourth from left) and INS Director Martha Ospina (fifth from left) celebrate the official opening of the PHEOC in INS.

In January 2017, Colombia’s Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS), or National Institute of Health, celebrated 100 years of providing critical public health services in the country. On January 26, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos…
Posted May 16, 2017

NPHI Investments Helped Colombia Prepare for Zika

Rice field in Colombia’s Tolima Department (Source: Neil Palmer, CAIT)

Preparing a country’s public health system to respond to an emergency means getting the right structure and people in place to take action against imminent health threats. This is the ongoing work of Colombia’s national public health institute…
Posted December 12, 2016

Ethiopia: Bringing Laboratory Safety Home

Students fix a light in the biosafety cabinet

As we learned from HIV, Ebola, and other scary microbes, testing a patient’s bodily fluids can be dangerous – even deadly. For laboratory workers who handle these fluids every day, the risk is real and immediate.
Posted May 16, 2016

Colombia: Balancing Risk and Reality to Protect Health

Colombian communication experts develop a risk communication plan template for environmental exposures, targeting the issue of lead exposure in the home.

In the months between October 2014 and March 2015, Colombia went from no reported Zika cases to 25,000. Among these were nearly 3,000 pregnant women who had recovered from Zika, but who didn’t know whether their unborn children would be affected.
Posted May 11, 2016

Snapshots: NPHI Country Updates

Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention in Rwanda: Using a ‘Train the Trainer’ Model to Build National and Local Capacity

Jami Husain from CDC’s Global NCD team delivers the NCD program manager course to the Rwanda IHDPC NCD Division

The NPHI Program continues to support the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Division in Rwanda’s Institute for HIV, Disease Prevention and Control (IHDPC) at the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC).
Posted July 12, 2017

CDC and Bloomberg Philanthropies Help Ghana Improve Public Health Communication

CDC and Bloomberg Philanthropies staff work with Ghana Health Service staff on data initiative

As part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Data for Health initiative, CDC is working with Ghana to improve its health communication, as well as develop a long-term guide for program and policy decision-making using scientific data.
Posted January 13, 2017