CARPHA Works Towards Strengthening Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, and Outbreak Management

CARPHA Works Towards Strengthening Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, and Outbreak Management

In light of recent global health challenges and regional natural disasters, the importance of robust emergency preparedness and, outbreak detection and management in the region cannot be overstated. The COVID-19 pandemic and other multi-hazard emergencies highlighted the need for strategic plans focused on addressing known gaps within CARPHA and its Member States’ public health infrastructure for emergency preparedness and response.Over a span of two weeks, the US Centers for Disease Contr...
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CARPHA Progresses to Eligibility for the First Disbursement of Pandemic Funding

CARPHA Progresses to Eligibility for the First Disbursement of Pandemic Funding

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 22 March, 2024. Following a landmark Public Signing Ceremony for the Pandemic Fund (PF) Technical Cooperation Agreement (“Reducing the Public Health Impact of Pandemics in the Caribbean through Prevention, Preparedness, and Response” [RG-T4387] Project) on December 14, 2023, in Trinidad, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) continues to progress towards the start of implementation. CARPHA fu...
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Violence in the Caribbean: a Public Health Crisis

Violence in the Caribbean: a Public Health Crisis

Castries, Saint Lucia, 21 March 2024. Violence is rightly examined as a public health issue, because it affects physical, mental, and psychosocial health, it affects the individual families, and communities. Violence plagues the Region and represents a huge burden on health systems and has major economic costs to society as a whole. “It is for this reason that, "Violence in the Caribbean: a Public Health Crisis" has been chosen as the theme for the Caribbean Public Heal...
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Media Invitation - CARPHA 68th Annual Health Research Conference Media Launch

Media Invitation - CARPHA 68th Annual Health Research Conference Media Launch

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  • CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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...