Asunción, August 9, 2024 (PAHO) - From August 6 to 9, a workshop was held in Paraguay to implement the Mosaic Framework for Respiratory Virus Surveillance, an initiative led by WHO and designed to help countries adapt and improve their respiratory virus surveillance systems. This workshop is part of a global pilot, being the second…
Washington, D.C., 7 August 2024 (PAHO) - The "Navigating the Digital Shift: Advancing Digital Transformation in Health for All" webinar series has emerged as a critical platform for sharing information, knowledge, experiences, and best practices related to the integration of digital health solutions into public health. This initiative, led by PAHO…
7 August 2024 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recently introduced the concept of digitally smart health facilities (DSHF) as a groundbreaking approach to expanding access and revolutionizing healthcare in the Americas. Described in an editorial, led by our Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, published in the Pan American Journal of…
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 4 June 2024 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has recently emphasized the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for achieving equitable public health at the G20. In an editorial led by PAHO Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, and published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health, the…
August 7, 2024 - The PAHO/WHO Information Systems and Digital Health Unit (IS), Department of Evidence and intelligence for Action in Health (EIH) is glad to announce the launch of a new joint product developed by PAHO and IDB: the "Artificial Intelligence in Public Health: Readiness Assessment Toolkit." This toolkit is designed to help countries…
Panama, August 1, 2024 (PAHO) – The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in partnership with the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (IUHIBA) in Argentina, has launched a new tutorial-based training course aimed at strengthening leadership in educational management…
Washington DC, July 2024 - Since 2022, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), through its Department of Innovation, Access to Medicines and Health Technologies (IMT) and the Health Technology Assessment Network of the Americas (RedETSA) collaborates technically with the Spanish Network of Health Technology Assessment Agencies and Benefits of…
Seville, Spain, June 2024 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), through its Department of Innovation, Access to Medicines and Health Technologies (IMT), and the Health Technology Assessment Network of the Americas (RedETSA), for which PAHO serves as the secretariat, actively participated in the HTAi 2024 meeting.This year's event focused…
The Member States of WHO at their 77th Assembly approved a new resolution on increasing availability, ethical access and oversight of transplantation of human cells, tissues and organs, initiative of Spain.Transplantation is a life-saving treatment. The latest data of 2022 from the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation indicate that…