International Association of National Public Health Institutes

The International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) is a member organization of government agencies working to improve national disease prevention and response. IANPHI is made up of 100 members, located in 88 countries. The goal of IANPHI is to improve health outcomes, particularly in low-resource countries, by strengthening or creating NPHIs.

The IANPHI Secretariat is based at the Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) of France, and the US Office is located at the Emory University Global Health Institute in Atlanta, GA. The IANPHI Foundation is located in Finland at THL, and IANPHI President Mauricio Hernandez-Avila's Office is at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) of Mexico. Coordinated by Secretary General Jean Claude Desenclos, the IANPHI team is responsible for member relations and programs, policy, communications and NPHI development projects (USA), and the annual meeting scientific program (France).

The majority of funding for IANPHI has come from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since its creation in 2006, IANPHI has provided grant money for 73 individual projects in 45 different countries. Today, IANPHI concentrates most of its resources on long-term projects, which take three or more years to implement.

The National public health institutes (NPHI) model, exemplified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), China CDC, National Institute for Health and Welfare-THL (Finland),Public Health Agency of Canada and others, is an effective and cost-efficient way to systematically develop and sustain national public health systems. NPHIs, including China CDC, INSP in Mexico, FIOCRUZ in Brazil and others in 93 countries around the world, have been major contributors to reductions in morbidity and mortality from infectious and noncommunicable diseases. Many, including the CDC and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (Finland), have developed over several decades while others, including NPHIs in the United Kingdom and Canada, have been created following poorly managed threats such as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and SARS, in recognition that a coordinated system with a specialized institution is needed to effectively respond to disease threats.

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