The Fiji Institute of Pacific Health Research (FIPHR) is an integrated virtual research institute of the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (CMNHS) at the Fiji National University in Suva, Fiji. FIPHR has an overall vision of supporting Pacific Island countries in developing healthier communities by focusing on knowledge creation, exchange, integration and application through research as well as innovation and research capacity needed to address their communicable disease, obesity and NCD crises, address sexual health issues, promote, restore and/or maintain population health and wellbeing and reduce their inequalities in health.
FIPHR is comprised of five Research Centres (RCs), a Research Training and Repository Unit, and an administration arm. The five RCs include:
Research Centre for other health challenges prioritised by FIPHR that do not fall under one of these Centres.
Our Vision
A model of excellence in ground-breaking, impactful and ethical health research in the Pacific islands region, generating evidence to address health and wellness and inform the region’s health outcomes in the future.
Our Mission
To plan, conduct, teach, support, facilitate health research and disseminate findings which generate relevant and timely evidence-based health information, policies and programme, protocols and guidelines and best practices for current and future development of College staff and students, national Pacific island governments, regional institutions and communities and other like-minded partners.
Our Values
FIPHR has identified 11 strategic research themes include:
1. Food and Nutrition Security;
2. Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Inequality, Poverty & Modernisation;
3. Communicable Diseases (CDs), Mobile Populations and the Environment;
4. Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child & Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) , Sexuality and Vulnerable Populations;
5. Mental Health (MH), Recreational Drugs, Suicide, Alcohol and Stigma;
6. Climate Change, Environmental and Global Health;
7. Oral Health and Social Behaviour;
8. Health Systems, Policy, Economics, Private and Public Partnerships & Governance;
9. Injuries and Disability, Rehabilitation, Occupational Health; and
10. Indigenous Health, Spirituality and Alternative Medicines.
11. Medical Education