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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 Trinidad Limited (TTL) to build capacity to promote healthier, safer tourism as Trinidad prepares for its annual Carnival mass gathering event 2025. Both CARPHA and TTL are committed to safe and responsible tourism to protect the health and well-being of both visitors and the local populations, especi...

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 Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (CR-FELTP) – Level II, aimed at strengthening public health response capacity across the region.Taking place from February 17-21, 2025, at the Kapok Hotel, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, the workshop is funded by the Pandemic Fund, with CARPHA as the Executing Age...

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 Council of Ministers of Health of Central America and the Dominican Republic (SE-COMISCA) through the signing of a five -year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This collaborative effort aims to foster deeper health synergies between Central America and the Caribbean. The MOU was signed by Dr Lisa...

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 February 1st 2025. Dr. Indar previously held the position of Ad Interim Executive Director of CARPHA, from July 2024, having served in her substantive post of Director, Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control (SDPC) since 2019, as well as the Head of the Regional Tourism and Health...

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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 and TEPHINET Sign MoU to Increase Technical Skills of Public Health Professionals in the Caribbean

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 27 December, 2024. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET), recen...
CARPHA’s Pandemic Fund Supports Reduction in Dengue and other Mosquito Borne Illnesses in Member States through Fogging Machines and Chemicals

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 23 December, 2024. As part of its ongoing commitment to combat epidemic prone illnesses such as mosquito-borne diseases, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (C...
Enhancing Emergency Communication Resilience with Satellite Phones

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In today’s world, phones have become essential to our daily lives—central hubs for connecting with family, friends, and the world around us. But what happens when these lifelines fail? Nat...
CARPHA Strengthens Capacity in Monitoring and Evaluation and Data Appreciation in Grenada

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Saint George’s, Grenada. December 11, 2024. Twenty-five professionals completed an intensive Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Data Appreciation Training, designed to enhance their ability...
CARPHA Supports “Timeliness” Metrics to Strengthen the Caribbean’s Response to Health Threats

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Bridgetown, Barbados, December 6, 2024 – Public health professionals from five countries are now able to use timeliness performance metrics to improve the way the Caribbean region detects a...
CARPHA Successfully Launches Antigua and Barbuda Tourism and Health Program

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St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda. December 5, 2024 – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Antigua and Barbuda Ministries of Health, Wel...

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...