Health Systems Strengthening

The Support to Public Health Institutes Programme (SPHIP), financed by the European Union, aims to build capacities of researchers and research institutes to perform health research and to contribute to policy development(see box)...

Citizen’s research into adherence to tobacco regulations in Uganda Moses Kirigwajjo Nsaire from the Uganda National Health Consumers Organisation presented a research carried out by members of the organisation into adherence to...

Partner capacity building, including international learning exchanges, was one of the main activities of the SPHIP project. The regional conference in Laos was successful in providing learning and experience sharing opportunities...

The state of diet-related NCD policies in Bangladesh: a policy framework content analysis Sadika Akhter, Razib Mamun and Iqbal Anwar Background Although non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of morbidity and...

On 16 th October 2019, one day ahead of the International Public Health Conference for the Greater Mekong Sub-region, the SPHIP programme convened its annual meeting in Vientiane, Lao PDR. This is the fifth year of the SPHIP...

Dr Leonard Ntakarutima from the Research Department, National Public Health Institute, Bujumbura, Burundi presented in the international public health conference in Vientiane about the issues of knowledge and use of contraceptive...

The LaoTPHI and friends dedicated this year’s forum to quality of health services. The H.E. Mr Léon Faber highlighted the achievements of the LEARN partners in his opening speech. He stated: “Over the last 4 ½ years, there have...

The 11th International Conference on Public Health among Greater Mekong Sub-Regional countries was organized in Vientiane, Laos. It focused on the broad public health aspects of Health Equity issues in the Greater Mekong Sub...

SPHIP has just launched its bimonthly newsletter for October 2019. As usual, SPHIP projects are very active in different array of activities. Click here to read the news