Project management is used as a significant skill in many industries. For this reason, the knowledgernof projects and their management are of high importance. Project risk management is the process ofrnidentifying, analyzing and then responding to any risk that arises over the life cycle of a project tornhelp the project remain on track and meet its goal. Poor risk management as a whole is one of thernmajor aspects causing projects to collapse, and this has become an obstacle to each and every projectrnthat is being developed nowadays. The healthcare industry faces many of the same challenges asrnother industries, with some very particular stress points. Ethiopian Public Health Institute haverncompleted and now also implementing various health care projects with different constraintsrnincluding scope, time, cost, quality and risk in order to improve quality of health care and enhancernthe capacity of the health sector at all levels of the system. The main objective of this study was tornassess the risk management practices in health care projects under Ethiopian Public Health Institute.rnDescriptive research design was used to answer the extent of risk management practice in health carernprojects and to see the associated factors affecting the risk management practice. The targetrnpopulation for this study was all members of the project and other related officers in Ethiopian PublicrnHealth Institute from which the sample population was drawn by using purposive sampling technique.rnThis study used both primary and secondary data source and quantitative method to address thernobjective of the study by using self administered questionnaires as a data collection tool. Therncollected data was analyzed using SPSS version.20 software, which entails calculating frequency,rnpercentage, mean, standard deviation and variability.rnAs the finding of this study, the risk management practice in various projects in Ethiopian publicrnhealth institute mainly the risk planning, identification, analysis, response & monitoring wasrnmoderately implemented with the average mean score of 3.20 and SD of 1.23. However, thernutilization of risk management tools and techniques to manage the project risk were very low with arnmean score and standard deviation 2.58 & 0.93 respectively. Regarding policy and strategies most ofrnthe respondents disagree and uncertain on the presence of policy or guideline that recommend how tornmanage unexpected uncertainties and standard risk management practices in these projectrnorganization. Thus this study recommends that standard risk management practice should be backedrnwith strategies and guidelines and implemented at every stage of the project by integrating with thernproject plan and with the involvement of all project team members and stakeholders.