B.TSOGTBAATAR BECOMES IANPHI EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Director of the National Center for Public Health in Mongolia Tsogtbaatar Byambaa has become an executive board member of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI ). The 2017 IANPHI Annual Meeting was held on October 23-27 in Rome, Italy to exchange concepts and perspectives on ways to improve the world’s health. Ebba Abbate, Director of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and Lothar Wieler, Director of the Robert Koch Institute in Germany were also named as the new Executive Board members. More than hundred IANPHI members, partners and representatives from national centers and NGOs took part in the meeting. Preventing, detecting, and responding to diseases and other public health threats are more important now more than ever before, and National Public Health Institutes play a critical role in each of these tasks and the meeting gave opportunity to national public health institutes to share experiences, to learn, and to teach each other the best practices. Last year, the IANPHI celebrated 10 years of connecting, creating and transforming NPHIs and is moving into its next decade with the experience and momentum needed to help more countries address - sustainably and over the long term - the evolving public health challenges of today and the future. B.Ooluun