July 2017

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) Center launched the trainings on “Epidemiological Approach for Malaria Control”. The Training was planned to be provided to 1034 PHEM officers at woreda, zone and regional level. “The main aim of the training was to capacitate the PHEM officers at different level to be […]

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The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) Bacterial, Parasitic and Zoonotic Disease Research Directorate organized a launching and sensitization workshop for the surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Using Public Health Laboratory-Based Sentinel sites in Ethiopia on July 21, 2017. The workshop intended to give awareness to the data collectors of the surveillance which will be conducted […]

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The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Ethiopian Postal Service Enterprise (EPSE) and Regional Health Bureaus signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for specimen transportation and referral linkages on July 19, 2017. The MoU enables transportation of specimen from the different regional laboratories and research centers to and back from EPHI through EPSE. Dr. Ebba Abate […]

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The National Health Research and Development Coordination Committee composed from the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Armauer Hanson Research Institute (AHRI) and Addis Ababa University (AAU) led by Minister of Health Prof. Yifiru Birhan visited EPHI on July 17, 2017. According to EPHI’s Director General Dr. Ebba Abate the aim of the visit is to […]

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The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (MoE) and other partner organizations delivered a briefing on training of clinical and supportive teams deployed at Bole International Airport in order to acquaint the 49 participants with the necessary knowledge and skill on the prevention […]

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The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) National TB Reference Laboratory launched the Anti-TB Drug Resistance Survey project in Ethiopia for the year 2017/18 on July 3, 2017. The Anti-TB drug resistance survey will be conducted at randomly selected sites across the nation to assess the extent of drug resistant tuberculosis in the country and provide […]

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