Since 2019, the Mexican Health Secretariat, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization, UNAM’s Faculty of Psychology and the Psychiatric Care Services, have been working on the implementation of WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) with the aim of strengthening the first level of care and offering greater mental health…
A series of training activities, primarily aimed at educators and health workers, were organized in Ecuador by the Ministry of Health, higher education institutions and the local PAHO/WHO office.
Since May, a training on Psychological First Aid (PAP) has been delivered for 610 tutors and teachers from sixty one higher education institutions. Its…
Scholarships awarded to 12 participants to complete a 4-module course in antimicrobial resistance in Colombia and Ecuador
Washington, D.C., 02 August 2021 (PAHO/WHO) – 12 professionals from 10 epidemiological surveillance and research institutions in Colombia and Ecuador received a grant to participate in the Structured Operational Research…
With a background in nursing, midwifery and public health, but also with studies on Latin America, U.S. midwife Peg Marshall worked for many years in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) where she served as Technical Advisor for Maternal and Child Health for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). For years, Peg was USAID'…
Washington, D.C., 22 July 2021 (PAHO)- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) facilitated two workshops called by the World Health Organization (WHO) to present and discuss the WHO policy guidance on integrated antimicrobial stewardship activities. The first workshop was held on 14-15 July for representatives from Latin American countries.…
Highlights threats posed by new nicotine and tobacco products
27 July 2021 | Departmental news | Geneva, Switzerland
Many countries are making progress in the fight against tobacco, but a new World Health Organization report shows some are not addressing emerging nicotine and tobacco products and failing to regulate…
Washington DC, 21 July, 2021 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) launched a series of virtual seminars on “Public investment in health in times of COVID-19” that seeks to reflect on the role of health financing in the set of measures promoted by countries, in particular, those that affect the health sector, to inform the dialogue…
Washington, D.C., 20 July 2021 (PAHO/WHO) – Enrollment for the second offering of the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) virtual course on the implementation and strengthening of Programs for Optimizing Antimicrobials Use (PROA, in Spanish) will open on 10 August, 2021.
The roughly 70-hour course, offered on the PAHO Virtual Campus…
Following the World Health Organization's SIDS Summit for Health, and as part of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum which followed the WHO Summit, Dr. María Neira, Director of Public Health and the Environment Department at the World Health Organization talked about the unprecedented health challenges Small Island Developing States…