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News Archive - 2010
IANPHI's membership has almost doubled since it was founded in 2006, and now totals 76 institutes in 72 countries on four continents. »
To promote sustainability and strengthen the finances of IANPHI, members in November approved the introduction of fees for membership to the association and created the IANPHI Foundation to manage those fees as well as funds from other sources. »
The IANPHI Executive Board provides policy oversight for the organization. The board now numbers 11 members, each representing a different region of the world. »
Lancet article by CDC Director Thomas Frieden and IANPHI President Jeffrey Koplan calls for stronger national public health institutes for global health. »
In response to the most deadly and widespread cholera epidemic in 20 years, the Nigeria Institute for Medical Research is providing humanitarian services and seeking to identify the source, cause, and course of the infection. »
Scott Dowell, director of the CDC’s division of global disease detection and emergency response, updated attendees about goings-on in Haiti since the massive January 12 earthquake and the recent outbreak of cholera. »
IANPHI bids farewell to Secretary-General Pekka Jousilahti, who has resigned his position as of the end of August. »
She is a physician with broad experience in international research and development collaborations. »
James M. Hughes, MD, is IANPHI's senior scientific advisor for infectious diseases, professor of medicine in the Emory University School of Medicine and professor of global health in Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. »
Policymakers should increase their sense of urgency to stop the global spread of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes that threaten the health and economies of industrialized and developing nations alike, Emory University global health researchers say. »
Nearly 40 participants from European IANPHI member institutes,
partner organizations, ECDC, and the European Commission gathered
in Brussels to discuss NPHI experiences in
managing public health crises such as last year’s influenza pandemic,
impact of the economic downturn on the work of national public
health laboratories, communications using new media, and patient
safety in the context of health care-acquired infections. »
In an ongoing effort to build human capacity and provide a career path for pubic health professionals, IANPHI announced in May two new mentor-mentee pairs in the IANPHI Mentorship Program »
Scott Butler led a group of volunteer architects and planners who planned and designed the new Mozambique NIH. »
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan is joining IANPHI in encouraging governments to consider NPHIs as a way to develop sustainable public health systems. »
IANPHI and the World Health Organization (WHO) have formalized their partnership in a Letter of Exchange signed by IANPHI President Jeff Koplan and Tim Evans. »
Public health decision makers from nine countries and several representatives from high level regional institutions have begun outlining a plan to create a South American Network of National Institutes of Health. »
As public health leaders from nearly 50 countries gathered in early November, they had a common goal: strengthening individual public health institutes and establishing partnerships to significantly reduce death and disease globally. »
A multidisciplinary task force representing key stakeholders from the Malawian government, the donor community, and IANPHI is outlining the key functions of a proposed national public health institute. »
During the business session of the 2010 IANPHI Annual Meeting in Atlanta, IANPHI members will vote on the inclusion of new members and associate members, discuss a proposed membership fee, and elect new members of the Executive Board. The business meeting will be on Tuesday, November 2 2010. »
For the first time in its four-year history, IANPHI is proposing a fee for membership to IANPHI, most of which will cover the cost of the annual meeting beginning in 2012. »
IANPHI has approved more than $276,000 (USD) in funding for new research seed grants and short-term projects designed to strengthen public health research, public health systems, and evidence-based decision-making in five member institutes. »
Amabelia Rodrigues, president of Guinea-Bissau's INASA, an IANPHI member institute, has been chosen to attend the 2010 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID) in Atlanta as part of its 2010 Leaders Program sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. »
Long-time IANPHI supporter Stephen Blount is named U.S. CDC's associate director for health development. »
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has nominated Marc Sprenger to become its new director. Dr. Sprenger is currently director-general (CEO) of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. »
The 8th Annual Jeffrey P. Koplan Global Leadership in Public Health Lecture »
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has had a profound impact on accelerating progress in addressing global infectious disease challenges and has contributed to national and global public health capacity-building by supporting IANPHI. This initiative emphasizes innovative approaches to creating or strengthening national public health institutes around the world, with a particular emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia. »
Click here for a mini bio and information about the Center for Global Health »
UNASUR aims to establish a South American national public health network. »
UK will host conference March 10-12. »
Patricia Garcia, former chief of Peru's National Health Institutes, encourages local and global public health collaborations. See Lancet article. »