general, national institute for health and welfare, finland mahmudur rahman - director, institute of epidemiology, disease control, and research, bangladesh amabelia rodrigues - former president, national institute of public health, guinea bissau mario henry rodriguez - former general director, national institute of public health, mexico pathom sawanpanyalert - former director general, national institute of health barry schoub - former executive director, national institute of communicable diseases, south africa marc sprenger - director, european centre for disease prevention and control, netherlands geir stene-larsen - director general, norwegian institute of public health gregory taylor - chief public health officer, public health agency of canada, canada jaroslav volf - former director, national institute of public health, czech republic yu wang - director-general, centers for disease control, china jane wilde - former chief executive, institute of public health in ireland the ianphi secretariat is based at the santé publique france, and the us office is located at the emory university global health institute in atlanta, ga. ianphi long-term projects ianphi's long-term projects help public health systems in low-resource countries respond to modern public health challenges, improve outcomes, and support healthy populations and strong economies. these intensive multi-year engagements develop and strengthen national public health institutes (nphis), moving them forward on a continuum from those least developed to those with a comprehensive and coordinated scope of public health responsibilities. currently, ianphi has ongoing long-term projects in bangladesh, ethiopia, ghana, guinea-bissau, malawi, morocco, mozambique, nigeria, tanzania, and togo.