Washington, D.C., 6 May 2026 —Amid recent public health challenges, including outbreaks of yellow fever, measles, COVID-19, and dengue, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) welcomed a delegation from the São Paulo State Health Secretariat, Brazil, to its headquarters to strengthen cooperation on health surveillance and emergency…
Washington, D.C., May 4, 2026 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), through the Information Systems and Digital Health Unit and the Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH), announces the launch of Cycle 4: Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), as part of the Digital Literacy Program in Health and its Learning Path.This…
Bridgetown, Barbados, April 29th.- With the support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Barbados is advancing the strengthening of its national regulatory system for medicines and health technologies, as part of the country’s efforts to achieve WHO Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT) Maturity Level 3. Between 21 and 23 April 2026,…
Santiago, Chile, April 28, 2026 (PAHO) — From April 13 to 17, 2026, professionals from National Influenza Centers (NICs) in Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru participated in the International Workshop on Bioinformatics for Influenza Genomic Surveillance. The workshop was jointly organized by the WHO Collaborating Center for…
Dominican Republic, 29 April 2026 — In March, a technical mission was carried out in the Dominican Republic to support the implementation of cervical cancer screening services at the first level of care and to strengthen referral pathways for diagnosis and treatment. These pilot initiatives are being developed with financial support from the Korea…
28 April 2026 (PAHO)—The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), conducted the technical webinar “Strengthening Medicines Quality through Laboratory Testing: The Indian Pharmacopoeia” as part of the collaborative efforts to strengthen medicines quality assurance systems and…
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2026 — On April 22 and 23, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Paraguay, and Suriname took part in Exercise Polaris II, an international simulation coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), with the participation of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), to assess and strengthen the capacity of national…
Washington, D.C., April 27 2026 (PAHO/WHO) – The Ministry of Health of Bermuda, with the support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), convened a technical meeting focused on electronic systems for product registration and import control of medicines and other health technologies.The virtual meeting took place within the framework of…
Washington, April 27, 2025.– The webinar program of the Health Technology Assessment Network of the Americas (RedETSA) held its 50th edition with the event “50 RedETSA Webinars: Networks that Transform”, a milestone that marks more than a decade of sustained work to strengthen health technology assessment (HTA) in the Region of the Americas.Since…