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Boilerplate
Short (40 words): The Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG) is an independent, non-profit public health institute founded in Tbilisi in 2011. It publishes open evidence, trains and verifies health professionals, runs a quality ladder from certification to accreditation, and protects consumers and workers through its network of platforms.
Long (110 words): The Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG, publichealth.ge) is an independent, non-profit public health institute registered in Tbilisi in 2011. Its goal to 2030 is a health system for Georgia and its region that is evidence-based, competence-based and quality-assured. PHIG publishes the open-access Georgian Medical Journal and GMJ News, runs GMJ Academy (200+ free courses), the Georgian Institute of Labour Studies, Sheni Labs and SupplementIndex, the SheniEkimi certification programme, and two observatories on health workforce competencies and on health and migration; it is the official representative of Accreditation Canada in Georgia and the alliance partner of Accréditation Sans Frontières. Its public information reaches about five million readers a month through the Sheni network. PHIG operates under a published 75-policy framework and accepts no funding from the tobacco, nicotine, vaping or arms industries.
Facts
| Legal name | Public Health Institute of Georgia · საქართველოს საზოგადოებრივი ჯანმრთელობის ინსტიტუტი |
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| Registered | 9 September 2011, Tbilisi · ID 404407815 · non-profit |
| Chair and spokesperson | Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD (ORCID 0000-0001-7609-4515) |
| Platforms | publichealth.ge · gmj.ge · news.gmj.ge · academy.gmj.ge · labour.edu.ge · shenilabs.ge · supplement.ge · certificate.ge · accreditation.ge · france-asf.fr (ASF) |
| Reach | About 5 million readers/month via the Sheni network; up to 15 million in peak months (internal analytics) |
| Governance | 75-policy framework · legal status · financial sustainability |
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