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05Jun

CARPHA Strengthens Regional Capacity Through IATA Infectious Substances Transport Training

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. June 5th, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has successfully conducted a regional International Air Transport Association (IATA) Infectious Substances Transport Train-the-Trainer Workshop aimed at strengthening the Caribbean’s capacity for th...

26May

CARPHA Strengthens Caribbean Capacity for Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance and Response

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Georgetown, Guyana. May 26, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has further strengthened the Caribbean’s capacity to detect, monitor, and respond to vector-borne diseases through the advancement of harmonised regional early warning systems and the integration of new technologies ...

21May

CARPHA Closely Monitors Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Through Early Warning and Surveillance Mechanisms

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 19, 2026. Following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration on May 16th 2026 that the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the...

15May

CARPHA Urges Action on Excessive Salt Intake as Hypertension and Heart Disease Rise Across the Region

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 11, 2026. Between 21% and 27% of Caribbean adults are hypertensive, with many populations consuming nearly double the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation for salt. High sodium intake contributes to approximately 1.89 million deaths annually ...

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CARPHA Launches Antimicrobial Resistance Regional Reference Laboratory in Jamaica, Completing Regional Laboratory Network to Strengthen Caribbean Health Security

7/24/2026 9:27:00 AM

Kingston, Jamaica. July 22, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) today officially launched its Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Regional Reference Laboratory in Jamaica, marking the complet...
CARPHA Medicines Quality Control and Surveillance Department’s Post Market Surveillance Programme Enhances Medicines/Patient Safety in the Turks and Caicos Islands

7/22/2026 3:17:00 PM

Kingston, Jamaica. July 20, 2026. The Pharmacy Unit within the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MoHHS) in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) began a transformative journey in 2019 with the...
CARPHA Supports Turks and Caicos Islands to Strengthen Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance and Laboratory Capacity

7/21/2026 9:16:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. July 17, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) successfully concluded a five-day technical mission to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) from 13–1...
CARPHA and CDEMA Renew Partnership to Advance Regional Disaster Management and Public Health Resilience

7/9/2026 3:51:00 PM

Castries, Saint Lucia. July 6, 2026. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) renewed their partnership to strengthen regional coopera...
CARPHA and IFRC Renew Commitment to Building Healthier and More Resilient Caribbean Communities

7/9/2026 3:08:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. July 09, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) renewed their commi...
CARPHA and PAHO Launch Regional Technical Recommendations for Healthier School Food Environments Across the Region

6/16/2026 10:05:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 4, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), officially launched the Technical Recomm...
CARPHA Convenes Landmark Meeting to Advance Regional Health Security Through Launch of Innovative Caribbean-Tailored Digital Early Warning Surveillance and Response Mechanisms

6/12/2026 11:04:00 AM

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. June 12, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) successfully concluded the 2nd Joint Regional Health Security (RHS) and Regional Coordinating Mechanism f...
CARPHA Launches the Grenada Tourism and Health Program, Advances Visitor-Based Surveillance and Builds Capacity in Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control

6/5/2026 5:45:00 PM

St. George’s, Grenada. June 1, 2026. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Tourism, Creative Economy and Culture, in collaboration with the Caribbean P...
CARPHA Strengthens Regional Capacity Through IATA Infectious Substances Transport Training

6/5/2026 2:51:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. June 5th, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has successfully conducted a regional International Air Transport Association (IATA) Infectious Substanc...
CARPHA Strengthens Caribbean Capacity for Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance and Response

5/26/2026 11:25:00 AM

Georgetown, Guyana. May 26, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has further strengthened the Caribbean’s capacity to detect, monitor, and respond to vector-borne diseases through t...

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...