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The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) in collaboration with World Health Organization, The Carter Center and other Ministerial stakeholders have started a two day workshop on January 3, 2019 to develop this year’s Plan of Action (PoA) for the Ethiopian Guinea Worm Eradication Program (EDEP). During the opening day the […]
The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) organized orientation and operational training on sentinel site surveillance for malaria in Ethiopia to put into practice the National Malaria Sentinel Site Surveillance Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), capacity building of sentinel sites, and coordination of surveillance and research. The training begun on December 31, 2018 and will be conducted […]
On December 26, 2018 the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health organized a one day workshop on Mini Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to create awareness between the Technical Groups who were in the group and the recently appointed. On the workshop detailed presentation was presented to create […]
The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) has selected and given recognition for excellent achievement in the ISO accreditation for 3 Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) laboratories and 3 other regional laboratories in Ethiopia on its annual meeting held in Nigeria. The accredited laboratories are EPHI’s National TB Reference Laboratory, National HIV Reference Laboratory and […]
The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) National Laboratory Capacity Building Directorate (NLCBD) in collaboration with Challenge TB organized a National Review Meeting on Specimen Transportation and Referral Linkage in Adama from December 21-22, 2018. To evaluate the system implementation status, identify the strengths and weakness of the system, know the status of different Regions on […]
The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) Bacterial, Parasitic and Zoonosis Diseases Research Directorate (BPZDRD) is delivering a short training on laboratory diagnosis of Leishmaniasis for laboratory professionals which started on December 24 and will continue until December 28, 2018. Tesfahun Bishaw from the Federal Ministry of Health while opening the training explained that the training […]
The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) with World Health Organization (WHO) certified more than 88 PHEM Officers from Oromia Region in Basic Field Epidemiology on December 22, 2018 in Bishoftu. Dr. Beyene Moges, EPHI’s Deputy Director General has handed over certificates to the top five scorers and also gave responses to the raised questions and […]
Implementation of KAIZEN at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) is becoming fruitful. One of the Directorate of EPHI, Vaccine and Diagnostic Production (VDPD) is one example for the success. Birhanu Hurissa, A/Director of VDPD explained that there are three KAIZEN teams in his directorate. “First materials that are not used by the Directorate were […]
Rabies surveillance hands-on training was organized at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) from 11th December to 19th December, 2018. The trainees were 25 animal health workers of Addis Ababa Urban Agriculture (AAUAG) selected from all sub-cities of Addis Ababa. The trainers were from Ohio State University (OSU), Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC), EPHI […]
The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) Traditional and Modern Medicine Research Directorate (TMMRD) and EFMHACA organized a validation workshop for policy, strategy and proclamation on traditional medicines on December 19, 2018. The workshop aimed to validate the policy, strategy and proclamation document and send it to the Federal Ministry of Health’s policy makers. The document […]