Institutul de Sanatate Publica Prof.dr. Iuliu Moldovan, Cluj-Napoca

The Professor Iuliu Moldovan Institute of Public Health in Cluj-Napoca, Romania is the most important institution in the preventive medicine network in Transylvania, directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health. Its history of over seven decades continues a tradition of involvement in Public Health that begins when Transylvania was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and then interweaving with the health care and medical teaching development that followed the 1918 Unification. Throughout the 20th Century, the Institute has grown in status and strengthened its professional and scientific activity becoming renowned not only in Cluj, but all over Romania, as well as abroad. Its definite symbiosis with the Medical School from Cluj is clearly underlined by the people that have led it, all public health specialists, disciples of the above mentioned distinguished University.