According to five-year strategy, vision of NIPD is promoting the translation of innovation into health impact in disease endemic countries against infectious diseases through global health governance. Therefore, NIPD research programmes will be further strengthened in five priority areas, i.e.


1. epidemiology with focus on surveillance and response technology development;
2. parasite molecular biology with focus on molecular markers discovery;
3. vector biology with focus on vector identification and control approaches;
4. development of anti-diseases’ products including drug, diagnostic and vaccine development,
5. tropical diseases determinants studies with transdisciplinary approaches to support the disease programmes decision.