The Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM) was created by Malawi government to provide strategic leadership and national coordination for response during public health emergencies, to identify and address public health threats, and to generate of information that informs public health policy and practice.

“From 2008, there was a series of updates to MOH senior management where the policy makers gave direction from time to time.”

“The first PHIM Strategic Plan was from 2011 – 2016 in which stakeholders developed the institute’s vision, mission statement and priorities. The strategic plan is now in the third version from 2023 to
2030. Each version responds so new realities by introducing new activities and suspending or replacing others from the previous version…”

“In 2012, the Malawi State President Dr. Joyce Banda mentioned establishment of PHIM in her State of the Nation Address to parliament…”

“The International Health Regulations in 2005, increasing alerts against emerging and re-emerging diseases, natural disasters, food insecurity, waste management, sanitation and lackof clean water all re-emphasize the need to have a national public health institute which has capacity to quickly collect disease surveillance data, informing the policy direction and lead the national response. Government has established PHIM to respond to this need…”