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21Apr

CARPHA and St. George’s University Sign Landmark Five Year Agreement to Advance Public Health Research and Innovation in the Caribbean

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Georgetown, Guyana. April 21, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and St. George’s University (SGU) have formalised a transformative landmark five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in strengthening public health systems across the Caribbean through research, t...

10Apr

CARPHA Strengthens Regional Health Security with Launch of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Regional Referral Laboratory and Clinical Testing at its Saint Lucia Campus

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Castries, Saint Lucia. April 1, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) on March 26th, 2026, officially launched its Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Regional Reference Laboratory at its Saint Lucia campus, marking a major milestone in strengthening laboratory capacity an...

08Apr

CARPHA celebrates World Health Day and Calls for Stronger Integrated Surveillance and One Health Action

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. April 7, 2026. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) approximately 600 million people fall ill from foodborne diseases annually, resulting in an estimated 420,000 deaths worldwide. In 2024, around 75% of emerging infectious diseases were zoonotic in ori...

24Mar

CARPHA and Georgetown University Formalise Strategic Partnership to Advance Public Health Capacity and Health Systems in the Region

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Washington D.C., United States of America. March 19, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Practice and Impact (CGHPI) announced a new bidirectional collaboration to strengthen health systems research, innovation and public healt...

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CARPHA and St. George’s University Sign Landmark Five Year Agreement to Advance Public Health Research and Innovation in the Caribbean

4/21/2026 5:46:00 PM

Georgetown, Guyana. April 21, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and St. George’s University (SGU) have formalised a transformative landmark five-year Memorandum of Understanding ...
CARPHA Strengthens Regional Health Security with Launch of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Regional Referral Laboratory and Clinical Testing at its Saint Lucia Campus

4/10/2026 6:25:00 PM

Castries, Saint Lucia. April 1, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) on March 26th, 2026, officially launched its Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Regional Reference Laboratory at...
CARPHA celebrates World Health Day and Calls for Stronger Integrated Surveillance and One Health Action

4/8/2026 7:56:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. April 7, 2026. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) approximately 600 million people fall ill from foodborne diseases annually, resulting in an estimate...
CARPHA and Georgetown University Formalise Strategic Partnership to Advance Public Health Capacity and Health Systems in the Region

3/24/2026 3:27:00 PM

Washington D.C., United States of America. March 19, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Practice and Impact (CGHPI) announced ...
CARPHA Hosts Regional Partners Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance with Global and Regional Stakeholders

3/17/2026 5:45:00 PM

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 17 March, 2026. In early March, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) hosted a Regional Partners Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at its Headquarters...
CARPHA partners with GOARN for Intensive Outbreak Response Scenario Programme to Advance Caribbean Emergency and Response Readiness

3/17/2026 5:35:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 16 March, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Respo...
CARPHA Partners with the University of Oslo to Advance GIS and DHIS2 Capacity for Stronger Regional Public Health Surveillance

3/13/2026 10:55:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 03, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the University of Oslo, successfully conducted an intensive five-d...
CARPHA Calls for Early Testing and Healthier Lifestyles as Caribbean Marks World Kidney Day

3/12/2026 2:31:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 12, 2026. In 2023, 14.2% of adults globally were living with chronic kidney disease (CKD). In Latin America and the Caribbean, the prevalence was 15.4%, placi...
CARPHA Commemorates Handover of Public Health Relief Supplies to Support Jamaica’s Post-Hurricane Melissa Response and Recovery

3/10/2026 9:52:00 AM

Kingston, Jamaica. March 10, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) reaffirmed its full solidarity and commitment to supporting Jamaica’s public health response and recovery effo...
CARPHA Champions Urgent Regional Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Create Healthier Caribbean Food Environments on World Obesity Day

3/4/2026 10:53:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 4, 2026: On World Obesity Day, a unified day of action to raise awareness and drive solutions for its prevention and treatment, the Caribbean Public Health Ag...

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...
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 ...
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.
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...