List of national public health agencies

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)
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)
Institut de veille sanitaire (InVS; France)
Robert Koch Institute ( Germany)
Hellenic Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention ( Greece)
Centre for Health Protection (CHP; Hong Kong)
National Center for disease control. ( India)
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS; Italy)
National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID; Japan)
Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI; Norway)
Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS; Peru)
National Center for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC; Philippines)
Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC; South Korea)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III ( Spain)
Public Health Agency of Sweden ( Sweden)
Centers for Disease Control ( 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
U.S. Centers for Disease Control ( United States)
- Epidemic Intelligence Service United States)
- U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
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)
- Eurosurveillance
- European programme for intervention epidemiology training (EPIET)
- ESCAIDE
- Health Threat Unit
World Health Organization (WHO; United Nations)

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