History:

Branch Institute of malariology, parasitology and entomology Qui Nhon (vsrkstqn) was established in 30th November 1998 according to dicision of Viet Nam government. Its predecessor was the facility of malariology research of middle of Viet Nam was established in 8th March 1977. VSRKSTQN is a national institute and responsible for the middle and central highland of Viet Nam.

Leaders:

Director: Assistance Prof, Ph.D: Le Thanh Thuan
Vice director: Ph.D: Nguyen Dinh Tan

Director
Assistance Prof, Ph.D Le Thanh Thuan

Functions:

Researching and guiding the profession of malaria, parasitological diseases, entomology and the ways of prevention and control of these diseases in 14 provinces including 11 provinces of coast line from Quang Binh to Binh Thuan and 3 provinces of central highland: Kon Tum, Gia Lai and DakLak.

Tasks:

- Researching the malaria, parasites and insects which transmit the diseases, the diseases by parasites and the ways of prevnetion and control.
- Profession guiding:
Assisting the ministry of health in managing, leading and guiding the organization, profession, technique and plan of malaria control, parasitological and entomological disease prevention and control in the 14 above mentioned provinces.
- Communication and education:
Communicating and educating the causative agents, harm and the way of malarial, parasitological and entomological disease prevention and control fer cadres and people.
- Training:
- Training the technicians at middle and higher degrees.
Training and retraining profession, technique for cadres, managers in all levels.
- Collaborating with the universities in training students and M.S and Ph.D candidates.
- International cooperation:
Establishing the cooperation in research, training and implementation of projects with institutes, domestic and international governmental or non-governmental organizations related with malaria, parasitological and entomogogical diseases prevention and control.
- Self management

Organizational structure:

The professional-technique components: 4 departments, 14 groups.
- The epidemiology professional guiding department:
. Local guiding group
. Epidemiology supervision
. Technical control
- The entomology department:
. Anopheles group
. Culicinae group
. Insects killing group
. Insect - feeding
- The malaria research department
. Clinics
. Plasmodium
. Immunology-biochemistry
. Molecular biology
. Parasitology department:
. Worm
. Flat worm
- The management components: 4 departments
. Personnel and management division including personnel division and administration division
- Finance and account division:
- Planning department:
. Plan
. International cooperation
. Scientific management
- The training-communication-education
. Training
. Communication and education

Manpower:

Staffs: 90 in which
male: 62
Female: 28
Assistance prof, Ph.D: 1
Ph.D: 7
M.S: 4
1 st grade M.D: 1
M.D: 13
Bachelors: 7
Technicians at middle degree: 25
Assistance M.D: 06
Others: 10

Some main achievements:

- Scientific research: implemented 98 scientific themes in which national themes: 05, ministrial themes: 31, local themes: 40, the international cooperated themes: 22.
- Profession guiding:
Assisting the ministry of health for malaria prevention and control in 14 provinces, 128 districts, 1844 communes with 13,4 million of rehabitants in which 50% population with 40 ethnics who live in malaria circulation areas.
The morbidity of malaria, the plasmodium, the malignant malaria and the mortality of malaria reduced 43,38%; 56,42%; 90,80%; 91,08% in 2000s compares with these in 1991 (respectively).
Continuous 4 years (1993-1996), there had no malaria epidemic while previous years there had hundreds of malaria epidemic. In 2000, a small malaria epidemic occured but it was early detected and stopped.
- Training and upgrade training:
- 10 courses with 254 technical middle degree participants were completed.
- Retraining the technical profession for 97 courses with 3021 participants
- 15 courses for 961 health cadres
- 11 courses for 236 laboratorians
- 4 couses for 4 groups of malaria control
- 4 competitions of excellent technicians.
- 4 national conference
- 3 scientific meeting
- Participating to teach the Ph.D candidates.

The communication and education:

- Publishing 18 tapes of video, 30 tapes of cassette, 3 rolls of film, 30100 of hoardings, posters and pictures, 38000 books, thausands of information leaflets of malarial parasitological and entomological prevention and control.

International cooperation:

- Enhancing the international cooperation; participating the projects and themes with medical committee of Netherland Viet Nam (MCNV), CaRE international, UNICEF, NAYOGA university of Japan, the project of malaria control of Australia-Viet Nam, the project of malaria control of Viet -Nam-EC and WHO ... etc...
- Sending many cadres to exchange the experiences, study and research in Russia, China, India, Australia, Thai lan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Philippines.