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18Dec

CARPHA and Healthy Caribbean Coalition Reaffirm Partnership to Strengthen the Caribbean Response to Non-Communicable Diseases

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. December 5, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) have reaffirmed their long-standing partnership to advance the regional response to Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), one of the greatest public health challeng...

17Dec

CARPHA Strengthens Regional Vector-Borne Disease Early Warning Systems Through Integrated Vector Management and New Technologies

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. December 17, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has concluded a three-day Regional Multisectoral Workshop on Strengthening Integrated Vector Management (IVM), Insecticide Resistance Testing (IRT) and Geographic Information System (GIS). This worksh...

16Dec

CARPHA Boosts Capacity in The Bahamas to Advance Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response and Healthier Safer Tourism

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Nassau, Bahamas. December 16, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)’s Regional Tourism and Health Program (THP) has strengthened national capacity for pandemic preparedness, prevention and response (PPR) and healthier, safer tourism (HST) in The Bahamas, one of the Caribbean’s most fre...

16Dec

CARPHA and Saint Kitts and Nevis Finalise Climate-Resilient Water Safety Plan

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Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. December 12, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN) successfully convened a national workshop from December 8–12, 2025, to finalise Climate-Resilient Water Safety Plan (CR-WSP)...

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CARPHA Celebrates World Field Epidemiology Day 2026: Honouring the Disease Detectives Protecting Public Health in the Caribbean

9/7/2026 9:47:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. September 7, 2026: On September 7, 2026, CARPHA joins the global field epidemiology community in celebrating World Field Epidemiology Day under the theme, “Protect...
CARPHA Launches the Curaçao Tourism and Health Program, Advances Visitor-Based Surveillance

9/1/2026 12:54:00 PM

August 24, 2026. Willemsted, Curaçao. The Ministry of Health, Environment and Nature (GMN) and the Ministry of Economic Development (MEO), in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CAR...
CARPHA Collaborates with the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine to Strengthen Capacity in Food Safety

8/28/2026 2:17:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. August 21, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the region’s sole public health institution, enhanced the knowledge and skills of Nutrition and Diete...
CARPHA and CAOH Strengthen Regional Partnership to Address the Growing Burden of Cancer

8/25/2026 11:47:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. August 19, 2026. Cancer continues to represent one of the greatest public health challenges facing the Region. The Caribbean experiences some of the highest cancer ...
CARPHA and the Cayman Islands Ministry of Health, Environment and Sustainability Strengthen Capacity to Advance Outbreak Preparedness and Response

8/21/2026 1:28:00 PM

George Town, Cayman Islands. August 10, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Environment and Sustainability (MHES) of the Cayman Islands, de...
CARPHA Conducts National Public Health Laboratory Assessment in Curaçao to Strengthen Pandemic Preparedness and Response

8/20/2026 1:12:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. August 6, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Caribbean Public Health Laboratory Network (CariPHLN), successfully conducted a comprehensi...
CARPHA-led Mission Concludes with Roadmap to Strengthen Jamaica's National Response to Antimicrobial Resistance

8/3/2026 9:34:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. July 31, 2026 – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency and working closely with the Ministry of Health an...
CARPHA Strengthens Capacity in One Health Surveillance and Outbreak Response in Trinidad and Tobago

7/31/2026 8:46:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. July 30, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Caribbean Regional Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (CR-FELTP), has conc...
CARPHA Expands Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Testing and Surveillance with Introduction of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)

7/30/2026 9:52:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. July 29, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has enhanced regional laboratory capacity for detecting, monitoring, and responding to antimicrobial resi...
CARPHA and the OECS Renew Partnership to Strengthen Travellers’ Health for a More Resilient, Economically Sustainable Eastern Caribbean

7/28/2026 10:13:00 AM

Castries, Saint Lucia. July 23, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have renewed their partnership to strengthen health in touris...

CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

5/16/2014 5:08:00 PM

Hypertension

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

7/5/2014 1:45:00 PM

Tourism

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

11/12/2013 4:17:00 PM

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

9/9/2014 5:03:00 PM

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...
CARPHA Issues its First Emergency Use Recommendation for a COVID-19 Vaccine

3/9/2021 5:27:00 PM

CARPHA Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS) issued its first certificate of recommendation for emergency use for the COVID-19 vaccine COVISHIELD™ to CARPHA Member States on 2nd March, 2021.
New CARPHA lab to help region respond to health threats

2/13/2014 11:21:00 AM

Laboratory, Biosafety

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 ...
CR-FELTP Trains New Mentors in Jamaica

9/3/2015 4:50:00 AM

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...
GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP

6/27/2014 11:32:00 AM

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...
Risk of Ebola in the Caribbean "Low"

11/8/2014 3:23:00 PM

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...
Influenza Activity in the Caribbean

11/12/2013 4:56:00 PM

Influenza, Virus, Vaccination

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...