List of national public health agencies
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This list of national public health agencies includes national level organizations responsible for public health, infectious disease control, and epidemiology. Many are represented in the International Association of National Public Health Institutes and discussed at National public health institutes.
National public health agencies
- Sciensano (
Belgium) - Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB;
Democratic Republic of Congo) - Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA;
Brazil) - Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC;
Canada) - Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC;
People's Republic of China) - Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL;
Finland)[1] - Institut de veille sanitaire (InVS;
France) - Robert Koch Institute (RKI;
Germany) - National Public Health Organization (NPHO, former HCDCP;
Greece) - Centre for Health Protection (CHP;
Hong Kong) - Nemzeti Népegészségügyi Központ (NNK;
Hungary) - National Center for disease control (NCDC;
India) - Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC;
Ireland) - Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS;
Italy) - National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID;
Japan) - Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM;
Netherlands) - Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI;
Norway) - Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS;
Peru) - National Center for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC;
Philippines) - Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (
Russia) - National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID;
Singapore) - National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD;
South Africa) - Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC;
South Korea) - Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII;
Spain) - Public Health Agency of Sweden (
Sweden) - Centers for Disease Control (CDC;
Taiwan) - For historic reasons, health services in the
United Kingdom have always been provided by distinct organisations in each of the 4 major geographic regions:
- Public Health England (
England) - Public Health Wales (
Wales) - Public Health Agency (
Northern Ireland) - In
Scotland there is a distinction between:
- Promoting healthy behaviour : NHS Health Scotland
- Protection from environmental hazards : Health Protection Scotland
- Public Health England (
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC;
United States)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Central American Region (CDC-CAR;
Guatemala, 
El Salvador, 
Nicaragua, 
Costa Rica, 
Panama, 
Belize) - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC;
EU)
- World Health Organization (WHO;
United Nations)
