Washington, D.C., 19 March 2024 ― The first comprehensive research agenda for climate change and health in the Caribbean has been released. Entitled Research for Action on Climate Change and Health in the Caribbean: A Public, Private, People’s and Planetary Agenda, and it identifies 18 research priority areas for future study and capacity…
Panama, 11 March 2024 (PAHO/WHO) - In a collaborative effort to strengthen regional capacity for surveillance of diseases caused by hantavirus and arenavirus transmitted by rodents in the Americas, the Gorgas Commemorative Institute for Health Studies (ICGES) in Panama has hosted a significant meeting of international collaboration. From March…
Trinidad and Tobago, March 4-8, 2024 – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) not only actively participated but also played a crucial supportive role in facilitating the involvement of PAHOGen Reference Sequencing Laboratories in a pioneering workshop from March 4th to March 8th in Trinidad and Tobago, focusing on the Bioinformatic Analysis…
Washington, D.C. February 29, 2024. With regret, PAHO’s Special Program on Comprehensive Immunization (CIM) informs that Dr. Cuauhtémoc Ruiz Matus, Chief of the Comprehensive Family Immunization Unit from 2007 – 2022, passed away today in Mexico City.
Dr. Ruiz, a Mexican health professional, was appointed head of PAHO's Comprehensive Family…
Washington DC, 29 February 2024 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in partnership with the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre (CC) for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, hosted the webinar titled “Improving capacities of nurses through graduate education”. The webinar was held on 27…
Washington D.C., 25 February 2024 (PAHO)– More than 14,000 professionals have enrolled in the virtual course Introduction to the renewed Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF): Fundamentals, conceptual framework and evaluation methodology offered by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) since its inception in 2022. Its Portuguese version,…
Washington DC, February 25, 2024 (PAHO) – With the participation of more than 300 members from health service networks nationwide, the basic course on Integrated Health Service Networks (IHSN) concluded through the Bolivia Node of the Virtual Campus for Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
The general objective of the…
Washington, DC, February 27, 2024 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) presented the document Building better immunity: the life course approach for healthy longevity during a webinar titled "Application of a Life Course Approach in National Immunization Programs," on 27 February.
This virtual event brought…
27 February 2024 - Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes, are responsible for 75% of deaths worldwide. People affected by humanitarian emergencies are at increased risk of NCDs. It is estimated that strokes and heart attacks are up to 3 times more likely following a…