This year, IANPHI’s Annual Meeting will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from November 2-4. Since our last global meeting, several national public health institutes have shown great interest in joining our network. We expect that the General Assembly will welcome many new members to IANPHI. Aside from new members, new partnerships are also being formed and developed. Collaboration with major regional public health actors and other international organizations helps IANPHI to fulfill its mission to improve public health globally. A pressing topic naturally is the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Western Africa. Our member institutes in the area are working hard to prevent the virus from spreading, and we have called our entire network for assistance. The outbreak is not only a health issue, but it has its effects on the economies. Whereas many volunteer emergency response groups can be of great help in the fieldwork of tackling the disease, it remains the work of the national public health institutes to collect data, develop response strategies, and conduct research to capacitate the countries for the best possible outcome from these dire circumstance. As a network, IANPHI’s members can learn from each other’s experience, and we have also offered our network to help our long standing partner, WHO. READ MORE >>
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