Director

Departments of the Director

1. Office of the Director
   • Secretariate of the Director
   • National Antibiotic Programme
   • Manager for the National HIV/AIDS Programme
   • Unit for Quality and Authorization
   • Coordinator for Research and International Cooperation
2. Headquarters, Environmental and Population Health Monitoring
3. Unit for Biostatistics and Informatics
4. Scientific Information Unit

Centres

1. Centre for Health and the Environment
   • Secretariate of the Centre for Health and the Environment
   • Unit for Air and Soil Hygiene and Waste Management
   • Unit for Water Hygiene
2. Centre for Health, Nutrition and Food
   • Secretariate of the Centre for Health, Nutrition and Food
   • Food Safety Analysis Unit
   • Unit for Health Risk Assessment and Applied Nutrition
3. Centre of Occupational Health
   • Secretariate of the Centre of Occupational Health
   • Unit for Chemical Safety
   • Unit for Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health
   • Unit for Occupational Health Services
   • Unit for the Assessment of Occupational Exposure to Chemicals
4. Centre for Public Health Promotion
   • Secretariate of the Centre for Public Health Promotion
   • Health Promotion Unit
   • Unit for Psychosocial Determinants of Health
   • Unit for Child and Adolescent Health
5. Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology
   
   • Secretariate of the Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology
   • CEM Accreditation Department
   • National reference centre for healthcare associated infections (NRC-HAI)
   • Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics 
   • Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
   • Department of Air-Borne Bacterial Infections
   • Department of Bacterial Resistance and Collection of Type Cultures
   • Department of Mycobacteriology
   • Department of respiratory, intestinal and  exanthematous viral infections
   • Department of Sexually Transmitted Infections
   • Department of Zoonoses with Natural Focality
   • Department of Laboratories for Disinfection and Vector Control
   • Department of Culture Media Preparation and Labware Washing
   • Department of Staphylococcal and Food-Borne Bacterial Infections
6. Centre of Toxicology and Health Safety
   • Secretariate of the Centre of Toxicology and Health Safety
   • Unit for Chemical Safety of Products
   • Unit for Special Food Categories and Microbiology of Consumer Products
   • Unit for Alternative Toxicological Methods
   • Toxicogenomics Unit
   • Unit for Biomedicine and Welfare of Laboratory Animals

Economics and Technical Services

1. Economics Unit
2. Human Resources Unit
3. Operations and Technical Services Unit