Abstract:
The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) began as a hospital in 1922 by an American
missionary named Dr. Thomas Lambie and has since grown to include a variety of structures and
mandates. Following its liberation from Italy in May 1941, the Imperial Medical Research Institute
was renamed Imperial Medical Research Institute, in 1951 the Institute Pasteur D'Ethiopie
following a bilateral agreement with the Institute Pasteur of Paris, France, in late 1965 the
Imperial Central Laboratory and Research Institute, in 1985 the National Research Institute of
Health (NRIH), and finally in 1996 the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI).
currently, was re-established by the Ethiopian government under Regulation No.301/2013,
replacing the former Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI).
