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13Oct

CARPHA Hosts Webinar to Promote Octagonal Front-of-Package Nutritional Warning Labels (FOPWL)

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 11 October 2023. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus and cancers remain the leading causes of mortality, morbidity, and disability in the Caribbean region, with an accompanying significant economic burden. These a...

11Oct

World Mental Health Day 2023: "Mental Health is a Universal Human Right

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 10 October 2023. Mental health issues affect people worldwide; Latin America and the Caribbean are no exception. The prevalence and incidence of mental diseases in the Caribbean are concerning, impacting men, women, and children. Depression, anxiety di...

30Sep

World Heart Day 2023

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 28 September 2023. Heart disease knows no boundaries as it affects individuals of all ages, genders, and backgrounds. The Caribbean Region is not immune to the burden of this disease. The incidence of heart disease in the Region is on the rise, par...

27Sep

World Tourism Day 2023: Tourism & Green Investments

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 27 September 2023. The devastation of the travel and tourism industry, both globally and regionally, as a result of COVID-19, provided a multitude of lessons learnt and allows for the opportunity to re-evaluate and restructure the way forward regar...

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CARPHA Provides Immediate Response to the Impact of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica

11/3/2025 7:58:00 PM

Kingston, Jamaica. November 2, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) mobilised an immediate response to support Jamaica following the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa, whi...
CARPHA Launches EU-Funded Mobile Insectary Facility to Strengthen Vector Control and Outbreak Readiness

10/31/2025 4:15:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. October 29, 2025: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) successfully launched the CARPHA Mobile Insectary Facility, a first-of-its-kind regional res...
CARPHA Stands in Solidarity with the People of Jamaica Following the Impact of Hurricane Melissa

10/30/2025 9:55:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. October 30, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) stands in firm solidarity with the Government and people of Jamaica, who continue to endure the d...
CARPHA Builds Capacity in Shipping of Infectious Substances Training in Belize to Enhance Response to Public Health Threats

10/29/2025 10:35:00 AM

Belize City, Belize. October 28, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), conducted a Shipping of Infectious Substances Training (SIST) in Belize during the week of October 20–24,...
CARPHA brings Caribbean context at the Renowned World Health Summit

10/17/2025 5:44:00 PM

Berlin, Germany. October 16, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) - the Caribbean’s sole regional public health agency and the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) lead for he...
CARPHA Strengthens Regional Biosafety with Training in Safe Shipping of Infectious Substances

10/11/2025 10:09:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. October 10, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Medical Microbiology Laboratory (CMML), in collaboration with the International Air ...
Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Health and Assistant Director PAHO Visit CARPHA to Reinforce Partnerships for Advancing Regional Health Security

10/11/2025 9:27:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. October 7, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) welcomed the Honourable Dr. Lackram Bodoe, Minister of Health of the Republic of Trinidad and Toba...
CARPHA Partners with CHTA to Host Regional Training on Infectious Disease Prevention and Control for the Hospitality Sector

10/9/2025 10:00:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. October 9, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), hosted an important regional...
CARPHA and GWP-C Pledge to Advance Water Security and Public Health in the Caribbean with New MOU.

9/22/2025 8:00:00 AM

ST. GEORGE’S GRENADA. SEPTEMBER 19, 2025. The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) formalised a new partnership aimed at strengthe...
CARPHA Strengthens Healthier, Safer Caribbean Cruise Tourism through Inaugural Regional Cruise Tourism Surveillance and Partnership Workshops with Countries and Cruise

9/18/2025 10:11:00 AM

Philipsburg, Sint Maarten. September 16, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) made a milestone achievement in advancing regional health security through the successful hosting of two...

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 ...
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...
Risk Communication Training to Help Senior Health Officials Better Manage Health Threats

6/21/2016 4:16:00 AM

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...