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When Ice Melts, Caribbean Islands Suffer: World Water Day 2025

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Castries, Saint Lucia. March 22nd, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) continues to join our international partners in the call for global action in securing our freshwater resources. We remain dedicated to safeguarding the health and well-being of Caribbean citizens in the face of the climate change crisis. Despite the absence of glaciers in the Caribbean, global interconnectivity can allow for the effects of rapidly melting glaciers to threaten the health and livelihoods of our p...

CARPHA Builds Capacity with Sandals Resorts International for Healthier Safer Tourism

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Port of Spain, Trinidad. March 21, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Regional Tourism and Health Program (THP), continues to collaborate with Sandals Resorts International (SRI), to build capacity to promote healthier, safer tourism to protect the health and well-being of both visitor and local populations in the Caribbean.This training was conducted by Mr. Keston Daniel, Coordinator, Visitor-Based Surveillance and Dr. Sastee Kissoondan, Technical Officer of CARPHA.&...

CARPHA Boosts Barbados’ Capacity and Preparedness for Major Mass Gatherings and Tourism Events

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Bridgetown, Barbados, 18 March, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has strengthened Barbados’ capacity to safeguard public health for both local and visitor populations especially during mass gathering events, including CARPHA’s upcoming Annual Health Research Conference (AHRC) to be held in May 2025 and the Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum (SEforALL) held from 12-13 March 2025.During a mission from March 10–13, CARPHA provided focused support in the ...

CARPHA Encourages Early Detection Towards Preventing Kidney Disease in the Caribbean

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 13, 2025. In 2019 kidney diseases were the fifth leading cause of death in the Non-Latin Caribbean region. In line with this year’s World Kidney Day theme, "Are Your Kidneys OK? Detect early, protect kidney health", the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) urges early screening for detection, along with appropriate management of diabetes and hypertension in primary care, as an important part of preventing kidney disease in the Reg...

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When Ice Melts, Caribbean Islands Suffer: World Water Day 2025

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Castries, Saint Lucia. March 22nd, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) continues to join our international partners in the call for global action in securing our freshwater resources. We...
CARPHA Builds Capacity with Sandals Resorts International for Healthier Safer Tourism

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Port of Spain, Trinidad. March 21, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Regional Tourism and Health Program (THP), continues to collaborate with Sandals Resorts International...
CARPHA Boosts Barbados’ Capacity and Preparedness for Major Mass Gatherings and Tourism Events

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Bridgetown, Barbados, 18 March, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has strengthened Barbados’ capacity to safeguard public health for both local and visitor populations espec...
Mental Health: The Hidden Pandemic

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Bridgetown, Barbados. 12 March 2025. Mental health is a growing public health issue. In the Caribbean in particular, mental health is influenced by a range of socio-economic factors, c...
CARPHA Encourages Early Detection Towards Preventing Kidney Disease in the Caribbean

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 13, 2025. In 2019 kidney diseases were the fifth leading cause of death in the Non-Latin Caribbean region. In line with this year’s World Kidney Da...
CARPHA Advocates for Systemic Changes to Reduce Childhood Obesity

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 7, 2025. In the Caribbean region, one in every three children is overweight or obese. In 2022, the estimated prevalence of overweight and obesity in adults in...
CARPHA and Tourism Trinidad Limited Collaborate to Build Capacity for a Healthy and Safe Carnival 2025

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. February 19, 2025: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Regional Tourism and Health Program (THP), continues to collaborate with Tourism Tr...
CARPHA Launches Regional Public Health Training to Strengthen Caribbean Pandemic Preparedness

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 17 February, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) today launched a five-day, in-person training workshop under the Caribbean Regional Field Epidemiolog...
CARPHA Partners with SE-COMISCA to Foster Deeper Health Synergies between Central America and the Caribbean

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 10 February 2025. On 5 February 2025, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has formalised a significant partnership with the Executive Secretariat of the Cou...
CARPHA Announces Dr. Lisa Indar as New Executive Director

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. February 10, 2025: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lisa Indar as the new Executive Director, effective Feb...

CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 16, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is calling on persons to know their blood pressure, strive to keep it healthy or lower it. This is in keep...
CARPHA and CTO Launch Tourism and Health Programme

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CARPHA and CTO successfully launched the regional tourism and health programme and conducted an awareness and discussion workshop on Friday May 2, 2014 in Aruba. The keynote address was given by the M...
CARPHA’s new Chairman of the Board

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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, October 02, 2013: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of the Honourable Colin Riley, Minister of Health of Montserrat...
Saint Lucia Joins Regional Project to Build Public Health Capacity

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Castries, Saint Lucia, September 04, 2014. The Ministry of Health, Wellness, Human Services and Gender Relations, in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), is launching the Ca...
New CARPHA lab to help region respond to health threats

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The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) moved today one step forward in its mission to provide strategic direction in analyzing, defining and responding to public health priorities of CARICOM, in ...
GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP

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The Center for Global Health of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S., in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), St. George's Un...
CR-FELTP Trains New Mentors in Jamaica

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Caribbean Regional Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (CR-FELTP) Trains New Mentors in Jamaica The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) hosted a four-day workshop in Kingston, Jam...
Risk of Ebola in the Caribbean "Low"

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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, August 06, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says the risk of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) being imported to the Caribbean is low. Executive Direct...
Risk Communication Training to Help Senior Health Officials Better Manage Health Threats

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Risk Communication Training to Help Senior Health Officials Better Manage Health Threats Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, June 19, 2016: "Risk communication is an important tool in managing health th...
Influenza Activity in the Caribbean

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 26, 2013. The Caribbean, like other regions in the Americas, experiences seasonal influenza activity. Improved health monitoring by Ministries of Health i...