PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre Activities Library

PAHO/WHO CC in Knowledge Management (ARG-34)*

Web-based product 

• Information systems for health (IS4H) framework  
• Information systems for health (IS4H) toolkit 

PAHO/WHO CC in eHealth (SPA-50) 

Training

• eSalud para gestores y tomadores de decisión
• Acceso y uso de la información científica en salud  

Web-based product 

• Information systems for health (IS4H) framework  
• Information systems for health (IS4H) toolkit 

PAHO/WHO CC for the Family of International Classifications (MEX-23)

Web-based product 

• Contributed to the revision and translation of the ICD-11 Reference guide.
• Assisted in the dissemination and training efforts on the use of the ICD-11.

PAHO/WHO CC for Health Equity Monitoring (BRA-84) 

Report

• State of inequality: reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health 

Scientific Publication

• State of inequality in diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunisation coverage in low-income and middle-income countries: a multicountry study of household health surveys 

• Ethnic group inequalities in coverage with reproductive, maternal and child health interventions: cross-sectional analyses of national surveys in 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries  

• Contraceptive use in Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on long-acting reversible contraceptives: prevalence and inequalities in 23 countries 

• Analyses of inequalities in RMNCH: rising to the challenge of the SDGs 

• Are the poorest poor being left behind? Estimating global inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health 

• Large and persistent subnational inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health intervention coverage in sub- Saharan Africa  

• Wealth-related inequalities in the coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions in 36 countries in the African Region 

• Just societies: a new vision for health equity in the Americas after COVID-19 

• SDG3-related inequalities in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health: an SDG monitoring baseline for Latin America and the Caribbean using national cross-sectional surveys 

• Social vulnerability as a risk factor for death due to severe paediatric COVID-19 

• Health inequity focus in pandemic preparedness and response plans

Training

• Tutorial: Creating equiplots using Stata 

• Tutorial: Slope index of inequality 

Web-based product 

• Health equity assessment toolkit plus (HEAT plus) 

• The WHO Health Equity Monitor Database 

• Equiplot Creator Tool 

• Equity Dashboard 

PAHO/WHO CC for Global Health and South-South Collaboration (BRA-76) 

Report

• Mapeamento das atividades relacionadas aos objetivos de desenvolvimento sustentável dos Centros Colaboradores da organização Pan‐Americana da saúde no Brasil  

Web-based product

• Observatório sobre iniquidades em saúde

PAHO/WHO CC in Knowledge Management and Communication (CUB-27) 

Training

• Reference tools - Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote  

Web-based product

• Ciro de Quadros: A Global Journey Towards the Immunization and the Improvement of Public Health 

PAHO/WHO CC for Bioethics (CHI-21) 

Report

• Pautas éticas internacionales para la investigación relacionada con la salud con seres humanos 
• Pautas de la OMS sobre la ética en la vigilancia de la salud pública 

PAHO/WHO CC in Ethics and Global Health Policy (USA-330) 

Report

• Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health

PAHO/WHO CC for the Development of Professional Nursing (MEX-19)*

Report

• Enfermería y COVID-19: la voz de sus protagonistas

Scientific Publication 

• Situation of nursing education in Latin America and the Caribbean towards universal health
• Predictors of nursing students’ academic performance in the National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2010-2019: retrospective study
• Qualification of nursing potential in maternal mortality in Mexico
• The correlates of precarious working conditions in the Mexican nursing labor market 2005-2018: A repeated cross-sectional study

Training

• Liderazgo en Enfermería ¿Para qué?

PAHO/WHO CC for Education of Health Technicians (BRA-59) 

Report

• A formação dos trabalhadores técnicos em saúde no Brasil e no Mercosul 

Scientific Publication 

• Trabalho, Educação e Saúde  
• Publicações técnicas de saúde 

Training

• Curso de especialização formação para docentes da área da saúde da universidade da República do Uruguai  
• Formação dos trabalhadores técnicos em saúde no Brasil - 2010-2015  
• Formação de técnicos em saúde 
• Latin American Colloquium on Interprofessional Education and the Training of Health Technicians 

Webinar

• La determinación social de los arboviroses: vigilancia sanitaria y acciones territorializadas - 2018  
• Dilemas, conflictos y perspectivas geopolíticas en África y América Latina - 2018  
• 40 años de Alma-Ata y el papel de los trabajadores técnicos en salud en la efectivización de sistemas universales de salud - 2018  
• Interprofessional Education in the training and work of health technicians - 2019
• 8th RETS Webinar: 'Accreditation of training institutions for technical health workers' 
• COVID-19 y la formación de técnicos en salud - 2020  

PAHO/WHO CC for Nursing Research Development (BRA-32) 

Report

• Cuidados no ambiente de assistência hospitalar ao paciente com suspeita ou diagnóstico de COVID-19 
• Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of COVID-19  
• Produção e uso de informações confiáveis e cientificamente comprovadas: alertas do Projeto AGIR-COV-2020  
• Projeto AGIR e o alerta para a utilização adequada de instrumentos de dados em pesquisa 
• Formación doctoral en enfermería en América Latina y el Caribe

Scientific Publication 

• Cultural adaptation and update of the Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of COVID-19 questionnaire for the Brazilian context 

Training

• PAHO supports training in Master's and Doctoral programs for nurses in Guyana  

Web-based product

• Fotografía de la enfermería en el Brasil  
• WHO national health workforce accounts  
• Pan American directory of schools of nursing 

Webinar

• Fortalecimento das capacidades dos enfermeiros da América Latina por meio da formação doutoral (Gravação do dia 2)  

PAHO/WHO CC for Advanced Practice Nursing (USA-272) 

Scientific Publication 

• Moving towards universal health coverage: advanced practice nurse competencies 
• Clinical nursing and midwifery research in Latin American and Caribbean countries: scoping review 

PAHO/WHO CC for International Nursing Development in Primary Health (USA-193) 

Report

• Perspectives and contributions of nursing to the promotion of universal health  

Scientific Publication 

• Situation of nursing education in Latin America and the Caribbean towards universal health 

PAHO/WHO CC for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership (USA-206) 

Report

• Formación doctoral en enfermería en América Latina y el Caribe 

Training

• PhD nursing education summit  
• Leadership in nursing for what and for whom?  

Webinar

• Building research excellence in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Nursing and quality of care

PAHO/WHO CC for Nursing and Midwifery Development in the Caribbean (JAM-15) 

Training

• Improving simulation instructional methods (iSIM)

PAHO/WHO CC in Primary Care Nursing and Health Human Resources (CAN-39) 

Training

• Nursing leadership: empowering nurse leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean  

PAHO/WHO CC for Nursing Human Resources Development and Patient Safety (USA-349) 

Training

• Transforming Nursing Education in Guyana 
• Nursing Leadership: Empowering Nurses in Latin America and the Caribbean (New)

PAHO/WHO CC for International Nursing (USA-241) 

Scientific Publication 

• Academic service-learning nursing partnerships in the Americas: a scoping review  

Training

• Domestic violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic  
• International scholars program   
• Quality improvement in nursing and midwifery educational programs  

Webinar

• Capacity-Building of Advanced Practice Nurses in Managing Patients with Cancer  
• Diabetes Basics and the APN Role  
• Quality improvement in nursing education: future perspectives in the post-pandemic era  

PAHO/WHO CC for Innovative Health Workers Education, Service and Research Models (USA-336) 

Report

• WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes 

PAHO/WHO CC in Health Technology (MEX-24) 

Report

• Supported the strengthening and exchange of information on new technologies in the Americas through reports on medications for the treatment of insufficiency acute heart disease and obesity, as well as vaccines and in vitro diagnostic tests for the prevention, screening, and detection of cervical cancer. Likewise, it has collaborated in the technical review of two manuals on the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based guidelines for the Region.

PAHO/WHO CC for Development of Midwifery (CHI-18)  

Report

• Competencias esceniales de los profesores de partería 
• Desarrollando capacidades de los profesores de partería  
• Herramienta de adaptación de las competencias esenciales de profesores de partería 
• Strengthening quality midwifery education for universal health coverage 2030 

Scientific Publication

• Status of national policy on companion of choice at birth in Latin America and the Caribbean: gaps and challenges  

Training

• Human resources for health to improve the quality of maternal health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Webinar

• WHO Collaborating Centers Midwifery Network webinar series - 2020-2021  

PAHO/WHO CC in Public Health and Aging (CUB-20) 

Training

• International accreditation of competences in health care for older persons 

PAHO/WHO CC for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (CAN-97)*

Report

• Guide d'accompagnement pour la réalisation de la démarche Municipalité amie des aînés (2e édition) et sa boîte à outils (New)

PAHO/WHO CC in Integrated Care for Healthy Aging (MEX-36) 

Publication

• Developed activities related to the dissemination of the ICOPE Integrated Care Model.
• Standards of competence for delivering integrated care for older persons.

PAHO/WHO CC on Quality of Care in Health Service Delivery (MEX-25)*

Report

• Estrategia y plan de acción para mejorar la calidad de la atención en la prestación de servicios de salud 2020-2025

Training

• Prevención del conflicto contra los profesionales de la salud

Web-based product

• Global point prevalence survey of antimicrobial consumption and resistance
• Conoce y escucha los 10 derechos generales de los pacientes en lenguas Indígenas
• Recomendaciones en lenguas Indígenas
• Infografías basadas en recomendaciones con fundamento en las guías de práctica clínica
• Boletín sobre de la mejora de la calidad de la atención médica y la seguridad del paciente

PAHO/WHO CC for Quality-Improvement, Evidence-Based Dentistry (USA-429) 

Training

• Oral health surveys: basic methods - 5th edition

PAHO/WHO CC for Promoting Family and Child Health (USA-379) 

Report

• Abordaje y la prevención de errores que ocurren en el cuidado de los recién nacidos 
• Prevención de infecciones asociadas a la atención neonatológica 
• Neonatal transport in developing country settings: a systematic review 

Scientific Publication

• Seasonal Influenza Prevention and Control Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Context of the Global Influenza Strategy and the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Prevalence and Predictors of Low Birth Weight in a Rural Guatemalan Community

PAHO/WHO CC to Strengthen Human Milk Banks (BRA-87) 

Report

• Human milk donation: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic  

PAHO/WHO CC for Addiction and Mental Health (CAN-29)*

Report

• Alcohol, gender, culture and harms in the Americas: PAHO multicentric study final report  
• Global status report on alcohol and health - 2018  
• Herramienta sobre políticas tributarias y de precios del alcohol  
• Regional status report on alcohol and health in the Americas - 2015  
• Regional status report on alcohol and health in the Americas - 2020  
• Alcohol and public health in the Americas: a case for action   
• Prevention of alcohol-related injuries in the Americas: from evidence to policy action  

Scientific Publication

• Mortality in the Americas from 2013-2015 resulting from diseases, conditions, and injuries which are 100% alcohol-attributable   

Training

• Assessment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders   
• Estimation of Alcohol Per Capita Consumption in the Americas (New)

Web-based product

• Global information system on alcohol and health  

Webinar

• Can the Americas reduce harmful use of alcohol by 2030?  

PAHO/WHO CC for Alcohol Epidemiology and Injury (USA-456) 

Scientific Publication

• Road traffic injuries and substance use among emergency department patients in the Dominican Republic and Peru   
• Road traffic injury risk from alcohol and cannabis use among emergency department patients in Argentina (New)

Webinar

• Regional study on alcohol, drugs and road injuries in emergency rooms: first findings   
  
   

PAHO/WHO CC on Alcohol and Public Health Policy Research (CAN-114) 

Web-based product

• The International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies (New)

Scientific Publication

• Assessing Sustainable Development Goal Target Indicator 3.5.2: Trends in alcohol per capita consumption in the Americas 1990–2016 (New)

PAHO/WHO CC for Research and community intervention in Epilepsy (HON-1) 

Report

• Strategy and plan of action for epilepsy - 2018
• The Management of epilepsy in the public health sector - 2018
• Epilepsia en Latinoamérica  

Training

• Epilepsia en atención primaria para América Latina - 2021

PAHO/WHO CC for Research on Psychiatric Epidemiology and Mental Health (USA-416)*

Report

• Suicide mortality in the Americas. Regional Report - 2010–2014  
• Treatment gap in the Americas 

Scientific Publication

• Mental health in the Americas: an overview of the treatment gap  

Training

• Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program  

PAHO/WHO CC for Research and Training in Mental Health (CAN-32)* 

Training

• mhGAP intervention guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings 
• Integration of mental health into primary care virtual 

PAHO/WHO CC for Education and Service Development for People with Epilepsy (CHI-20) 

Training

• XI Simposio Internacional de Epilepsia: un desafío constante 31 de julio 2021 – grabación del día 1 ; grabación del día 2  
• 10° Simposio Internacional de Epilepsia  
• Implementación del programa mhGAP en Epilepsia en Chile  
• Kit Digital para Docentes (New)

Webinar

• Pandemia Covid-19, Epilepsia y Salud Mental: De Lo Biológico a lo Psicosocial   
• Epilepsia y Salud Reproductiva de la Mujer  
• Aprendamos sobre: Telecuidado en enfermedades crónicas: el caso de la epilepsia  

PAHO/WHO CC for Childhood Cancer (USA-445) 

Campaign

• CureAll: all hands in global photo story campaign    

Report

• WHO global initiative for childhood cancer: an overview    
• CureAll framework: WHO global initiative for childhood cancer

Web-based product

• Knowledge action portal on NCDs
• SJCARES systems  
• SJCARES policy monitor  

PAHO/WHO CC for Social Marketing and Social Change to Address Non-Communicable Diseases (USA-404)* 

Report

• Salt reduction in Latin America: a regional social marketing and communication plan  

Training

• Building capacity for community engagement in salt reduction applying social marketing - 2015 
• Building capacity for community engagement in salt reduction applying social marketing - 2017 
• Introduction to social marketing for public health

PAHO/WHO CC for Nutrition Policy for Chronic Disease Prevention (CAN-87) 

Scientific Publication

• Sodium levels in package foods sold in 14 Latin America and Caribbean countries: food label analysis

Webinar

• It´s time for ACTION on salt - Salt Awareness Week 2019  

PAHO/WHO CC for Rehabilitation (BRA-80) 

Report

• Reabilitação após a COVID-19: confira o guia de apoio ao autocuidado produzido pelo IMREA  
• Rehabilitation considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak 
• Considerações sobre pessoas com deficiência durante o surto da COVID-19  

Scientific Publication

• Reabilitação em sistemas de saúde 

Web-based product

• Global call for measuring access to assistive technology using the WHO rapid Assistive Technology Assessment (rATA)  
• Recommendations: people with disabilities/new coronavirus 

PAHO/WHO CC on Tobacco Control Surveillance and Evaluation (USA-307) 

Report

• Assessing compliance with tobacco packaging and labeling regulations 
• State of the evidence: flavored tobacco product bans or restrictions  
• Report on tobacco control in the region of the Americas - 2018 

Training

• Global tobacco control: learning from the experts 
• Learning from the experts: a course for healthcare professionals 

Scientific Publication

• Measuring the illicit cigarette market in Mexico: a cross validation of two methodologies 
• Improving the implementation of tobacco control policies in low‐and middle‐income countries: a proposed framework 
• Association of Ontario’s ban on menthol cigarettes with smoking behavior 1 month after implementation 
• Compliance with Uruguay’s single presentation requirement 

Web-based product

• Second-hand smoke monitoring  
• Real time artificial intelligence for tobacco control  
• Tobacco pack surveillance system
• Country laws regulating e‐cigarettes

PAHO/WHO CC for Injury Control (USA-210) 

Report

• INSPIRE: seven strategies to end violence against children 

PAHO/WHO CC for Reference and Research of Arbovirus and Hemorrhagic Fevers Virosis (ARG-19) 

Training

• Teórico práctico en aislamientos virales y cultivos celulares  
• IX curso de fiebres hemorragicas virales   

PAHO/WHO CC for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza (USA-118) 

Scientific Publication

• Burden of influenza-associated respiratory hospitalizations in the Americas, 2010–2015 

Report

• Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2019- 2020 northern hemisphere influenza season 

Web-based product

• CDC laboratory support for influenza surveillance 

PAHO/WHO CC for Arboviruses (MEX-32) 

Training and Capacity Building

• Carried out at least 2 regional workshops to improve the laboratory diagnosis and surveillance capacity of yellow fever and has supported the validation and evaluation of the commercial kits available for the diagnosis of arboviruses.

PAHO/WHO CC for Research and Policy Guidance in Humanitarian Health Assistance (USA-437) *

Training

• Health emergencies in large populations

PAHO/WHO CC on Laboratory Biosafety (MEX-31) 

Laboratory Activities

• Built and implemented a robust Laboratory Quality Management System that is now a model at the regional level and is mandatory for the Mexican Network of Public Health Laboratories.

PAHO/WHO CC in Laboratory Quality Management  (MEX-34) 

Training and Capacity Building

• In-service training “Integrated Management System” for the State Public Health Laboratories of Mexico.
• Training and updating course for auditors under the international standards ISO 19011:2018, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 15189:2012, and ISO 35001:2019.
• Biological Risk Management and its Integration into the Quality Management System.

PAHO/WHO CC for Resilient Health Services Division  (MEX-35) 

Web-based products

• Support PAHO/WHO in the development of the Hospital Safety Index.
• Supported the development of the Hospital Incident Command System course.

PAHO/WHO CC on Antimicrobial Resistance in Foodborne and Environmental Bacteria (MEX-33)

Report

• Resistencia a los antimicrobianos: herramientas tecnológicas de vanguardia para su vigilancia

PAHO/WHO CC for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Salmonella and other Foodborne Diseases (USA-417) 

Scientific Publication 

• Foodborne illness acquired in the United States—major pathogens 
• PulseNet Latin America and the Caribbean Network: present and future 
• PulseNet international: vision for the implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for global food-borne disease surveillance 

Training

• PulseNet Training: PFGE Laboratory, Software Analysis, and MLVA Training

Web-based product

• Educational materials
• PulseNet

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development (USA-463)

Report

• Applying an Equity Lens: Reflecting on Harms from the COVID-19 Response and Mitigation Strategies Implemented in a Local Public Health System 

Scientific Publication  

• Participatory monitoring and evaluation of the COVID-19 response in a local public health system 

• Monitoring and evaluating the Ebola response effort in two Liberian communities 

• Assuring health access and culturally competent health services through the Latino Health for All Coalition 

Training

• Equity Lens Protocol:  Systematically Reflecting on Harms and Mitigation Strategies Related to the COVID-19 Response 

• Sensemaking Protocol: Systematic reflection on graphs of COVID-19 new cases and response activities  

Web-Based Products

• Healthy Cities Action Toolkit 

• African Health Action Toolkit 

• Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Your Community 

PAHO/WHO CC for Training and Research in Health Promotion and Health Education (PUR-263) 

Scientific Publication 

• Health promotion in disaster situations  
• The university as a community: health-promoting universities (2018) 

Training

• Oficina de coordinación de la red Iberoamericana de universidades promotoras de la salud (RIUPS)  
   

PAHO/WHO CC for Healthy Cities and Health Promotion (BRA-68) 

Report

• Strategy and Plan of Action on Health Promotion within the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals 2019-2030  

Scientific Publication

• Curitiba statement on health promotion and equity: voices from people concerned with global inequities

• Brazil’s unified health system and the national health promotion policy: prospects, results, progress and challenges in times of crisis

• Inter-sector network in Brazil’s School Health Program: subjects, perceptions, and practices

Web-based product

• Contribuição das instituições de ensino superior (IES) para a localização da agenda dos ODS na cidade de São Paulo  

PAHO/WHO CC for Health Promotion and Sexual and Reproductive Health (COL-16) 

Campaign

• Contest for significant experiences in health promotion in the Region of the Americas 

Scientific Publication

• Tendencias teóricas y prácticas de la promoción de la salud en el ámbito escolar en Latinoamérica 

PAHO/WHO CC for Research on Healthy Settings (USA-213) 

Report

• WHO housing and health guidelines (2018)  
• Policy briefs on food systems 

Scientific Publication

• Sanitation for all: research and practice framework to improve equity for people with disabilities 
• Laddering up? research and practice framework in sanitation for people with disabilities in low-income settings

Training

• Planning for community food systems  

PAHO/WHO CC for Research and Training on Housing Related Disease and Injury Prevention (USA-386) *

Report

• Implementation guide for the WHO international healthy housing guidelines 

Scientific Publication

• Measuring the effect of housing quality interventions: the case of the New Zealand "rental warrant of fitness" 

PAHO/WHO CC for Health in Housing (CUB-16) 

Report

• WHO electromagnetic field (EMF) programme - Cuba 

PAHO/WHO CC on Health Promotion (CAN-110) 

Training

• Health promotion virtual course (2021)

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre in Research and Training in Environmental Epidemiology (MEX-18)
 

Web-based product

• This CC has developed a training course on environmental epidemiology and has translated AirQ+, a tool to estimate impacts of air pollution on health, into Spanish, as well as support in the evaluation and development of capacities for the integration of pollution, climate change, and health policies in Trinidad and Tobago and now in the Dominican Republic.
• Updated and reviewed the PAHO Climate Change and Health online training course.

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre in Health Risk Assessment and Children's Environmental Health (MEX-21)
 

Web-based product

• This CC has developed a course on risk assessment and the impacts of electro-waste-electronics on children's and environmental health, as well as communication materials on the risks of micro and nano plastics and lead on human and environmental health.
• CRCP units: a strategy to assess health risks in children in contaminated communities.

PAHO/WHO CC for Occupational Health and Safety (CAN-43) 

Training

• Pandemic awareness  
• Violence in the workplace 
• Occupational and environmental cancer: recognition and prevention 

Web-based product 

• Infectious disease outbreaks/pandemics portal
• Healthy workplaces portal  
• Aging workers portal  
• Young/new workers portal 
• Healthy minds at work portal 
• Guarding minds at work
• Psychologically safe leaders assessment 

PAHO/WHO CC for National and Global Health Law (USA-414) 

Web-based product

• COVID-19 law lab

PAHO/WHO CC on Communication Strategies and Social Network Content (CUB-31) 

Campaign

• Materiales comunicativos para la prevención de la COVID-19  

Training

• Análisis crítico de la comunicación y promoción de salud en las escuelas cubanas