Publications

National Rabies Strategic Plan – 2023-2027 – Liberia

In Liberia, dog rabies is endemic, and surveillance systems and disease control activities are still being strengthened. However, rabies vaccination in humans has been documented since 1949. After the civil war from 1989-2003 and the devastating Ebola outbreak from 2014-2015, healthcare services and infrastructure were substantially weakened. Dog-related rabies has been eliminated from most developed…

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NPHIL Provides Public Health Advisory, Confirms Additional New Mpox Cases with Zero (0) Deaths

MONROVIA, May-31-2025: – In the wake of the increase in cases of Mpox in the sub-region and Liberia, the Mpox National Incident Management System (IMS), has confirmed additional new cases of Mpox. These testing results submitted by the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) bring to sixty-nine (69)…

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NPHIL Hosts Clinical-Biomedical Research Prioritization Workshop in Liberia

Monrovia, Liberia: May 1, 2025 — A five-day Research Prioritization Workshop and Research Mapping Exercises is hosted by the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) in collaboration with the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa-CDC). The exercise generally seeks to enumerate clinical and biomedical research sites in Liberia, and map out Liberia’s…

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