Vision/ Mission/ Mandates
Vision
Center of excellence for Disease Prevention and Control
Mission
Provide scientific information to facilitate evidence-based policy decision and intervention to prevent, control, eliminate and eradicate diseases of public health concern
Goal
To provide reliable scientific information on health and diseases to ensure well-informed policies and promote planning of effective and sustainable public health interventions.
Core Values
- Professionalism
- Competence
- Quality
- Ethical
Mandate
- Conduct surveillance on public health important diseases (Annual Health Conference in 2009 directives).
- Conduct outbreak and response (Annual Health Conference in 2009 directives).
- Provide reference laboratory services for public health important diseases (Annual Health Conference in 2009 directives.
- Monitor food and water public health safety (Water Act 2012).
- Monitor the quality of medicinal products/pharmaceutical drugs (Medicine Act 2003).
- Testing narcotic and psychotropic substances (NDPSSA Act 2005).
- Provide information on poison and its management (DoPH directive 2013).
- Responsible for laboratory services quality assurance (MoH directive 2017).
- Conduct basic and applied research (MoH and DoPH directive 2009).
- Develop capacity of health professionals in laboratory science and epidemiology (Annual Health Conference in 2009 directive).
Strategic Direction
- Strengthen diseases/syndromes indicator and event-based surveillance including event response capacity building by developing/reviewing standard guidelines/tools and electronic-based surveillance and training human resource.
- Strengthen laboratory capacity to detect infectious disease pathogens of high public health concern by training human resource and introducing appropriate technology/methods.
- Strengthen bio-safety practices in handling clinical specimens for surveillance of high consequence pathogens.
- Strengthen surveillance and laboratory capacity on food, nutrition and water-related public health problems by training human resource and introducing appropriate technology/methods.
- Establish food and nutrition testing and poison information centre by recruiting human resource and introducing appropriate technology/methods.
- Strengthen laboratory capacity to test the quality of pharmaceutical products by training human resource and introducing appropriate technology/methods.
- Enhanced research capacity by conducting high quality applied and operational research studies on health and diseases of national concern.
- Build technical capacity through technical collaboration and institutional linkages with relevant national and international institutes.