The National Primary Health Care Development Agency was established in 1992 to provide leadership that supports the promotion and implementation of high quality and sustainable primary health care (PHC) for all through resource mobilization, collaboration, partnership and development of community-based systems and functional infrastructure as well as ensure that infants are fully immunized against vaccine preventable diseases before attaining the age of 12 months.

The National Health Care system is based on the three tier system of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary care. The Federal Ministry of Health has the responsibility to develop policies, strategies, guidelines, plans and programmes, that provide the overall direction for the National Health Care Delivery System. The State Ministries of Health provide secondary level of care.

The LGAs are the implementers of the Primary Health Care Services including immunization. The organization of the health system includes both public and private sector providers.

The Agency operates under the guidance of the Governing board, Executive Director supported by six functional departments at the Headquarters in Abuja and zonal offices in each of the six(6) geo-political zones of the Nation.

The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), located in Lagos, is a government parastatal under the Ministry of Health. Before NIMR was formally established in 1977, national health research was coordinated by the Medical Research Council of Nigeria (MRCN). After MRCN was dissolved in 1977, NIMR became the main coordinator of health research in the country. 

NIMR's corporate mandate is to conduct research on communicable and non-communicable diseases of public health importance in Nigeria. The institute has five research divisions (Biochemistry, Clinical Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Public Health), three non-research divisions, and several support units and research laboratories. 

In 2000, NIMR leadership collectively resolved to reposition the institute to better implement and achieve its mandate. Since then, the major thrusts have been toward sustainable human capacity and infrastructure development. As a result, the institute now has a critical mass of staff with adequate research expertise in relevant disciplines in the clinical and biomedical sciences.  New laboratories have also been established, and existing laboratories have been improved and strengthened. The institute has capacity for basic, applied, and operational research for diseases of public health importance. In line with its mandate, NIMR has been able to carry out several research programs and services that have contributed toward improving health care delivery in the country over the past several years. 

Nigeria CDC was voted in as a new member of IANPHI durring the 2011 Annual Meeting. Profile to come