Promote & prevent
We support health education, disease prevention, hygiene, food safety, and environmental-health protection.
Who we are
Serving the people of Dire Dawa
The Dire Dawa Administration Health Bureau is the government institution responsible for leading, coordinating, and improving health services across the administration. We bring together health facilities, communities, development partners, and other stakeholders around a shared purpose: healthier lives for everyone.
Our work connects health promotion and disease prevention with emergency preparedness, laboratory and research services, curative and rehabilitative care, quality assurance, pharmaceutical services, and sound health-system management.
Our work
A connected approach to public health
We combine prevention, quality services, and accountable systems so that every programme contributes to better health outcomes.
Protect & respond
We coordinate public-health emergency preparedness and response, supported by laboratory and research services.
Improve care quality
We strengthen service quality, inspection, licensing, blood-bank services, and supply quality control.
Support healthy facilities
We help advance curative, palliative, rehabilitative, pharmaceutical, and rational medicine-use services.
Use evidence well
We plan, monitor, evaluate, and use health information to guide programmes and improve decisions.
Strengthen accountability
We develop health professionals and reinforce good governance, public communication, and institutional accountability.
Our commitment
Accessible, accountable, evidence-informed care.
We work to build a health system that listens to communities, responds to local needs, and continually improves the services people rely on.