History and legal basis:

The health strategy and policy institute (HSPI) is established as decision number of 230/1998/QD-TTg dated 30th November 1998. Its predecessor was center for health manpower founded 1987.

Register number of 612 for scientific and technological activity was approved by the ministry of science, technology and enviroment in 5th March 1999.

The board of director:

Vice minister of Health
Director of HSPI,
Assistant prof, Ph.D Nguyen Van Thuong

Vice director
Assistant prof, Ph.D
Pham Huy Dung

Vice director
Assistant prof, Ph.D
Le Quang Hoanh

Vice director
M.S Luu Hoai Chuan

Function and main tasks:

- Researching the health strategies and policies; providing the scientiffic evidence to lay the foundation for forcast, which helps to make and add the health strategies and policies.
- Researching the health strategy, policy, socialisation, law and related social sciences (health economy, psychotry and medical humanization).
- International cooperation: Designing the cooperation with regional and international institutes and organizations for training, exchanging experiences and studying.

Organizational structure:

Functional divisions:

- Planning and science and training division
- Administration and management division
- Account division

Professional divisions:

- The health strategy and polycy division
- The health economic division
- The rural health division

Sciencetiffic activities:

There are more ten of National and international themes are implemented. Some of them as follows:

- Planning and developing the desease prevention network in the whole country during 2001-2010.
- Planning and developing the health network in Ha Noi during 2001-2010
- Planning and developing the health network in Gia Lai during 2001-2010
- Making the strategy for the food safety, hygience and quality especially the theme called "Study on situation and making the models of health socialization for assuring the equality and efficacy in people health protection and care".

Health socialization is to identify properly the resposibilities, obligation and right of authorities, organizations, social and political institutions and individuals in the people health protection and care activities aiming mobilization of resources: manpower, finance, material for this activities.

. General aims: making the models of the health socialization to mobilize the resources for fairly and effective people health protection and care.

. Specific aims:

The primary health care services and the basic health care are delivered to everyone, especially the poor population contents:

- The models of interfields between social and public institutions in people health protection and care.
- The models of the health services: public, private, public-private cooperation and foreign investment.
- The models of mobilization of financial resources.
- The models of the health protection and care for poor population, penrsons with priorities and persons who contributed in the country defence and buiding cause.

International cooperation:

+ Health system research program (HSRP) and epidermological field in Ba Vi, Viet Nam.

This program is carried out by cooperation between HSPI (Viet Nam) and the international health institution (IHCAR), Karolinska institute of stockhon (Swidden)

The aims of HSRP:

- The definition and methods of Health system research are applied in to Viet Nam through the training courses, conferences, meeting and studies.
- Contributing in making the policies for the health renovation.
- Strengthen the study ability of researcher in HSPI and the medical university.
- Developing the epidermological field in Ba Vi. This field facility is member of the international epidermological field system.
- Implementing the studies in 5 sectors: epidermiology during interim, reproductive health, fairly in consultation and treatment, tuberculosis and gender.

Training and researching in five sectors:

- Reproductive health: 6 researchers (2Ph.D and 4 M.S)
- Epidermiology in interim: 12 researcher (3Ph.D and 9 M.S)
- Pharmacy: 4 researchers (1 Ph.D and 3 M.S)
- Fair in health: 6 researchers (2Ph.D and 4 M.S)
- Tuberculosis and gender: 2 researchers (2Ph.D)

Epidermology field:

- Covering 32 communities including 55000 inhabitant and 12000 family.
- Serveys in health and population (every 2 years) and in epidermiology (quartely).
- Supporting 30 Vietnamese researchers and 4 foreign researchers
- Manpower:
. Board of the administration: 5 staffs
. Office unit: 4 staffs
. Investigators: 43 staffs
. Supervisors: 6 staffs.
- Information unit: data process and management
+ Injury control and the security public making program in Viet Nam: This program has been developed since 1996 and supported by the international development organization of Swidden (SIDA). With aim as follows: Controlling and reducing injuries and accident step by step in all socio-economic sectors such as transport, production, accomodation, school, public areas ... etc... assurring the life, assets for people to contribute to sustainable development.

Program's targets:

- Evaluating the situation of injury in experimented locality
- Implementing the solutions for reducing injuries.
- Making the models of organizational structure and activities.
- Submitting the national policies for controlling injuries.

HSPI cooperated with:

- SIDA
- WHO
- UNICEF
- SIDSE
- UNPFA